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(C)onnected & (A)utomated (V)ehicle Code
Satire on Steam Coaches (1831) / H. T. Alken
The CSA America Standards organization has launched a new best practice title — CSA T150 Connected & Automated Vehicle Code — that may, at the very least, guide the safety and sustainability agenda of many large research universities that have transportation service units. Many governments direct research funding toward transportation so this product may inform the practicality of academic research.
The CSA Group announcement, made through ANSI’s Project Initiation Notification platform, is paraphrased below:
Project Need: To support innovation and deployment in the field of connected and autonomous vehicles by providing infrastructure requirements for the installation and safe operations of CAVs and corresponding infrastructure in the North American context.
Stakeholders: This proposed Code is being developed at the request of industry and manufacturers. It will provide the industry with the technical requirements and standards of safe operation of CAVs. This will meet the strategic needs of the following key interests:
(a) Ensuring that the latest innovative/technology/safety features are available for users,
(b) Addressing needs of regulators by providing suitable requirements;
(c) Supporting certification bodies.
The connected and automated vehicle (CAV) code specifies infrastructure requirements for CAVs operating or intended to operate in both on-road and off-road environments in order to address public safety, security, and privacy challenges. The code includes, but is not limited to, physical and digital infrastructure. Consideration is given to cybersecurity, interoperability, data management, data privacy, data integrity, human aspects, and accessibility. The CAV code is intended to primarily address issues related to public safety, security, and privacy in conjunction with detailed knowledge of the legal, regulatory, and technological landscape, and ensuring compliance with all relevant and applicable law. The CAV code is not intended as a design specification nor as an instruction manual for untrained persons.
According to the public comment page this title was open for consultation for less than 30 days.
This is an ambitious undertaking and certain to inspire competition among competitor conformance and certification organizations. Accordingly, we will follow the developmental path of the proposed “Code”. We encourage direct participation in the CSA Group’s standards development program by students, faculty and staff in the education industry.
Standards Michigan will continue to be a resource for education facility managers, academic researchers and any other final fiduciary (user-interest) in the public or private sector who need cross-cutting perspective. This title appears on the standing agenda of our periodic Mobility colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Photo Credit: Center for Digital Education
Issue: [19-146]
Category: Transportation & Parking
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Paul Green, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
Source: ANSI Standards Action
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Ontario Reg. 129/10 School Buses
Connected and Automated Vehicle Technologies – Insights for Codes and Standards in Canada
Natural Light & Architecture
FYI: Consultation on IES RP-46 Recommended Practice: Supporting the Physiological and Behavioral Effects of Lighting in Interior Daytime Environments closes April 10:
Advantages of natural light in educational occupancies:
- Improved academic performance: Studies have shown that students exposed to natural light perform better academically compared to those in classrooms with artificial lighting.
- Energy efficiency: Natural light can help to reduce energy consumption and costs associated with artificial lighting.
- Positive impact on health and well-being: Exposure to natural light has been linked to improved mood, reduced stress levels, and better sleep quality.
- Reduced absenteeism: Natural light has been shown to reduce absenteeism in schools, which can have a positive impact on student learning outcomes.
Disadvantages of natural light in educational occupancies:
- Glare and heat gain: Natural light can create glare and heat gain, which can be uncomfortable and distracting for students and teachers.
- Inconsistent lighting levels: Natural light levels can vary throughout the day and seasonally, which can make it difficult to maintain consistent lighting levels in a classroom.
- Limited control: Unlike artificial lighting, natural light cannot be easily controlled or adjusted to meet the needs of a specific classroom.
- Exposure to harmful UV rays: Prolonged exposure to natural light can also lead to harmful UV exposure, which can increase the risk of skin cancer and other health problems.
Overall, natural light has many advantages in educational occupancies, but it is important to carefully consider the potential disadvantages and to design spaces that optimize the benefits of natural light while minimizing the drawbacks.
Architecture and Aesthetic Education
“The most enduring architectural works are those
that speak to the timeless principles of beauty and order.”
— Roger Scruton
Relax this Saturday with some music from Sir Roger Scruton
This piece was composed by Sir Roger for his wife, Sophie. This recording was performed by Bri Ulrich, transcribed by Josh Bauder, and recorded by Emma Davis. We hope you love it as much as we dohttps://t.co/NjdkGpkn71
— Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (@Scruton_Legacy) March 25, 2023
Raisin Monday
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Visiting a newborn intensive care unit in Lviv hospital
The Future of Universities in a Block Chain World
Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society
Bibliography
“A Next Generation Smart Contract & Decentralized Application Platform” | Vitalik Buterin
“Fair and Robust Multi-Party Computation using a Global Transaction Ledger” | Aggelos Kiayias, Hong-Sheng Zhou, Vassilis Zikas
Health 200
Today we break down regulations, codes, standards and open-source literature governing the safety and sustainability of university-affiliated medical research and healthcare delivery facilities. In large measure, the safety and sustainability agenda of the university-affiliated healthcare system infrastructure coincides with the private sector. Accordingly, we confine our interest to systems — water, power, telecommunication and security; for example — that are unique to campus-configured, city-within-city risk aggregations.
We usually start with a scan of the following titles:
International Building Code (with particular interest in Section 308 Institutional Group I)
K-TAG Matrix for Healthcare Facilities
NFPA 70 National Electrical Code Article 517
NFPA 99 Healthcare Facilities Code
NFPA 101 Life Safety Code Chapters 18 & 19
ASHRAE 170 Ventilation of Healthcare Facilities
Some of the content in the foregoing links need weekly refresh. We’ll get to that, time permitting.
Starting 2023 we break down our coverage of standards thus:
Health 200 Clinical delivery
Health 400 Research
We will thumb through the titles published by HL7 and NSF International — both Ann Arbor-based organizations. A surprising number of medical data companies are domiciled in Ann Arbor; not far from our own offices on State Street. We will also see if any bills and resolutions introduced into the 117th Congress will make into public law.
Finally, we collaborate with the IEEE E&H Committee on the following IEC committee projects from IEC/TC 62 Electrical equipment in medical practice.
– Common aspects of electrical equipment used in medical practice
– Diagnostic imaging equipment
– Equipment for radiotherapy, nuclear medicine and radiation dosimetry
– Electromedical equipment
As covered in previous posts, the original University of Michigan standards enterprise was one of the founding members of what has become ISO/TC 304 Healthcare organization management — following the lead set by Lee Webster at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Since last month’s colloquium ISO TC/304 there has been a fair measure of the usual back-and-forth that we will cover in today’s colloquium. We will examine the ideas in play in the links below today and try to organize them ahead of balloting:
Legacy Workspace (N.B. We are still in the process of uploading content onto the new University of Michigan Google Site facility)
Open to everyone. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Health care cost as percentage of Gross Domestic Product for six representative nations.
Association of Academic Health Centers
International Conference on Harmonization: The ICH guidelines provide guidance on the development of pharmaceuticals and related substances, including clinical trials, drug safety, and efficacy.
Animal Welfare Act and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
Good Laboratory Practice: GLP is a set of principles that ensure the quality and integrity of non-clinical laboratory studies. It ensures that data generated from non-clinical laboratory studies are reliable, valid, and accurate.
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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