{"id":2441,"date":"2018-12-14T16:41:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T21:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/C2M2\/?page_id=2441"},"modified":"2023-08-11T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:50:44","slug":"center-leadership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/C2M2\/center-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Center Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Transportation is one of the pillars of the South Carolina economy. It is vital for businesses such as BMW, Boeing, Michelin, the Port of Charleston, and a host of smaller companies that supply these economic drivers of the state. These companies, directly and indirectly, employ thousands of South Carolinians, in addition to providing the state with much of its tax base, and thus, their success is crucial to the future of the state. To support these businesses and attract new ones to the state, and efficient multimodal transportation system is needed in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

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This is why a consortium of the five higher education universities and colleges in South Carolina, with the collaboration of the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT), has banded together to establish of a Tier 1 University Transportation Center. The resources from such a center ($1.5 million per year for five years) have enabled the South Carolina team to make a major leap ahead in its efforts to further transportation research, and promote education and workforce development. The center will form partnerships with industries in South Carolina and provide the incubation platform of a business ecosystem around the topic of connected multimodal transportation technologies to grow the economy of our state.<\/p>\n

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The center, C\u00b2M\u00b2 will not only conduct research; it will:<\/p>\n

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