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252-Automation-Readiness of Cities 

Date and Time: Tuesday, July 11, 2023: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Continental 1-3

Session Moderators and Organizers

MODERATORS
Henriette Cornet, Thematic Area Leader Automated Mobility, UITP
William Riggs, Professor, University of San Francisco

ORGANIZERS
Henriette Cornet, Thematic Area Leader Automated Mobility, UITP
William Riggs, Professor, University of San Francisco

TRB Sponsoring Committees and Partners

Session Description and Agenda

DESCRIPTION

AGENDA

1.30pm - 1.35pm | 5’ - Welcome & intro – Henriette Cornet, UITP

1.35pm - 1.45pm | 10’ – Presentation of the Automation-readiness tool & the Connected Automated Driving Knowledge Base – Stephane Dreher, ERTICO

1.45pm - 2.30pm | 45’ - 6 impulse presentations on the building blocks of AV readiness (5-6 min each, one slide) – identifying already what is missing and what cities want out of AV technology for their transportation systems
#Traffic management – Tom Alkim, MAPtm
#People / users / stakeholders’ engagement – Ellen Partridge, Equiticity
#Policy – William Riggs, University of San Francisco
#Planning (link with SUMP) – Lewis Knight, Sera Design
#Infrastructure (PDI) – Manabu Umeda, University of Tokyo
#Capacity building / work force – Henriette Cornet, UITP

2.30pm - 3pm | 30’ Interactive activity defining priorities towards automation-readiness of cities – William Riggs as facilitator

3pm - 3.30pm | 30’ Break

3.30pm - 4.40pm | 70’ Panel discussion with industry & PT moderated by William Riggs, USF

10' Report results from workshop activity as an introduction to the panel discussion.
60' Panel discussion: Given the goals for sustainable urban mobility planning the design for cities to prepare for AV what are the potential operational and business models for shared and automated mobility that we can work on across the public and private sectors to achieve these positive outcomes? What do the cities need? What does the industry need?
- Prashanthi Raman, Cruise
- Tilly Chang, SFCTA
- Mollie Cohen D'Agostino, UC Davis
- Jeroen Beukers, Transports Public Genevois
- Alan Dones, Strategic Urban Development Alliance

4.40pm - 4.45pm | 15’ Wrap up by William Riggs

Session Objectives

• Understand needs of all stakeholders, including industries for such a tool, for progressing towards more readiness of cities
• Focus on 6 building blocks of automation readiness: policy, infrastructure, traffic management, planning, capacity building (skills, training), people (users)
• Align technological capacity with the kinds of transportation services cities want and need
• Define specific operational scenarios (including identification of key digital and physical requirements) that will support sustainable business models for public and private sector providers and sustainable urban mobility planning processes