PUMA: Personal Urban Mobility Access. Dr. Dan Centea (W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology), together with an international group of students, designed a portable transportation device that would facilitate multi-modal connectivity to public transit. Specifically, it is the need to transport people between a transportation hub, such as railway stations or bus depots, and their workplace, school, home or other destination.
Students from nine universities in five countries collaborated to design and build a portable transportation device.
Academic Partners: Virginia Tech (USA), Howard University (USA), ITESM CEM Mexico, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), National Institute of Design NID (India), University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Canada)
Industry Partners: General Motors US, Autodesk, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oracle and Siemens