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          The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory  (CATT Lab) director Michael Pack is speaking out, at conferences that is. Pack has  recently served on panels and presented at three major conferences. In October  he presented a paper titled ?Open Source Software for Large Scale ITS Systems  Integration in the National Capital Region ? What Worked and What Didn?t? at  the 12th International  IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems which was hosted in St.  Louis, Missouri. An abstract of this paper can be read here.  He also served on the Virtual Worlds and  Homeland Security panel at the Workshop on Emergency Management: Incident,  Resource, and Supply Chain Management which was hosted by the United States  Department of Homeland Security in Irvine, California. Pack also presented at  the Advanced Learning Institute?s Social Media for Crisis Communications in Government  Conference which was hosted in Washington, D.C. November 2 ? 5, 2009. He presented on the panel titled the Role of Social Media in  Planning for and Supporting Emergency Communications and Situational Awareness.  
   About the CATT Lab 
   The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory  (CATT Lab) in the A. James Clark School of Engineering Department of Civil and  Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, supports  National, State, and local efforts to provide safe and efficient transportation  systems through improved operations and management by means of research and  development, technology implementation, training and education. 
   The CATT Lab is supported by an interdisciplinary staff of  graduate and undergraduate student researchers, affiliated faculty of the  Department of Civil Engineering, and a permanent team of ITS professionals. For  more information about the CATT Lab visit www.cattlab.umd.edu.
         
        	
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  November 5, 2009
	 
        
      
  
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