Dr. Sha was recently invited to participate in the Annual Summer Forum held by The Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM²) consortium at UT Austin. The multidisciplinary view fostered by the center was fascinating, and it was exciting to see how researchers from different fields integrate theories to tackle some of the most challenging problems in complex urban systems and future smart cities and mobility.

SiDi Lab received funding from the Department of Transportation (DOT) through the CM² center to investigate the complex urban system and its expansion in the Texas Triangle of Dallas-Austin-Houston, one of the fastest-growing megaregions in the United States. In particular, the objective is to develop a complex network-based analysis framework in support of the investigation of the co-evolution of cross-system interactions (e.g., urban networks and transportation networks) in the Texas Triangle megaregion.