UT’s Institute of Future Mobility Celebrates Strong Start

This article was originally published on January 6, 2026 by the University of Tennessee’s Tickle College of Engineering.

In the fall of 2023, the University of Tennessee launched the multidisciplinary Institute for Future Mobility, a research cluster devoted to revolutionizing the transportation sector in Knoxville and around the world.

Since its inception, the institute has hired six tenure-track faculty and eight new research faculty across three UT colleges, the Center for Transportation Research (CTR), and the UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute (UTORII).

The cluster now includes over 150 students, faculty, and staff researchers focused on mobility and transport, including representatives from every college at the university. Research expenditures for the cluster have increased by 75 percent over the past two years, exceeding $14 million in the 2025 fiscal year.

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