Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12INDUSTRY INTERVIEW: TOM DINGUS, DIRECTOR, VIRGINIA TECH TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE (VTTI) VTTI is one of the nation’s leading university-level transportation institutes with over $36 million in annual sponsored program research expenditures and 100 sponsors. Dr. Tom Dingus is an endowed professor of engineering at Virginia Tech and is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, which honored him with the A.R. Lauer Award for outstanding career achievement in the field of safety. In 2013, Dingus was honored as a Champion of Change by the White House. He also served as director of the Tier 1 U.S. Department of Transportation Connected Vehicle/Infrastructure University Transportation Center. Tom is a board member of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a non-profit organization devoted exclusively to advancing the unmanned systems and robotics community, and the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. S I X