May 18, 2026 | UT San Antonio | San Antonio, Texas

ScooterLab

Workshop 2026

From Infrastructure to Impact: Advancing Collaborative Research with ScooterLab. Join researchers, students, public-sector stakeholders and industry collaborators for a full day of platform updates, applied research sessions, demos, and collaboration planning.

Monday, May 18, 2026 | 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM (CT)
Weston Conference Center, UT San Antonio San Pedro I

Overview

ScooterLab is a community research testbed supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), designed to advance research in urban mobility, smart city infrastructure, privacy, security, and environmental sensing. By leveraging a fleet of sensor-equipped e-scooters, ScooterLab provides a unique open-access platform for micromobility-supported data collection and experimentation.

From Infrastructure to Impact: Advancing Collaborative Research with ScooterLab brings together academic researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore capabilities, real-world applications, and emerging research opportunities enabled by ScooterLab at UT San Antonio under NSF awards #2234516 and #2234517. Building on the foundation established in 2025, this year's workshop focuses on moving from platform demonstration to research execution by highlighting progress from ongoing collaborations, sharing lessons from active projects, and shaping the next wave of deployable studies.

Call for Proposals

To foster new research projects and collaborations leveraging the ScooterLab testbed, we invite academic, industry, and government researchers, engineers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to submit short three-page proposals. Selected proposals will be invited to participate in the workshop, where authors will have the opportunity to present their research ideas to the broader community, explore the ScooterLab infrastructure firsthand, and engage with the ScooterLab team.

Proposal submissions are due by April 2, 2026 (11:59 PM CT), notification is expected by April 8, 2026, and the registration deadline is May 1, 2026. For submission guidelines and further details, please click below.

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Schedule

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Venue

The event will be held in the Weston Conference Center at UTSA School of Data Science, located in the heart of San Antonio, TX. The venue is easily accessible by air, road, and public transportation.

How to get here

Address: UT San Antonio San Pedro I, 506 Dolorosa St, San Antonio, TX 78204

By plane

Fly into San Antonio International Airport (SAT), around 20 minutes from the venue.

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By car

The venue is in downtown San Antonio with nearby public garages and paid lots.

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By bus

Public transit options are available via VIA Metropolitan Transit.

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UT San Pedro I exterior
Weston Conference Center space
San Antonio landmark near venue
River Walk near downtown venue

Organizing Committee

Greg P. Griffin

Greg P. Griffin

Research Coordinator, Oregon Department of Transportation

Testbed Operations and Deployment Lead

Sushil K. Prasad

Sushil K. Prasad

Professor, UT San Antonio

Applications and Data Visualizations Lead

Anindya Maiti

Anindya Maiti

Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma

Outreach Coordinator and Backend Systems Lead

Sponsors & Partners

Contact

Questions about registration, proposals, or workshop fit: scooterlab@utsa.edu.