In this episode, we speak with Dr. Lina Kattan, PhD, a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering in the Schulich School of Engineering, and Canada Research Chair in Integrative Transportation Systems Through Automation and Connectivity. Lina discusses how transportation systems are key to creating smart and sustainable cities and highlights her research exploring different traffic management solutions with connected and automated vehicles. She speaks to how applied research through the Urban Alliance responds to the City of Calgary’s needs. Lina also shares how a transdisciplinary approach is key to innovation and how innovators can look to support the transformation of our Canadian Cities into smart and sustainable ones.  This episode is also available as a fully captioned and transcribed video that you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEt5GRcI6c4   Learn more about:  Lina’s research: https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/lina-kattan   The Urban Alliance: https://research.ucalgary.ca/urban-alliance   The Institutes for Transdisciplinary Scholarship: https://research.ucalgary.ca/research/transdisciplinary   Learn how to move your research-to-impact in the UCalgary innovation ecosystem: https://ucalgary.ca/innovation   

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