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Moderator/252-Automation-Readiness of Cities

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

Henriette Cornet 

Thematic Area Leader Automated Mobility, UITP

Presentation Description

The hype about cooperative, connected, automated mobility (CCAM) solutions as a panacea for the problems of urban mobility is over, but the technology continues to develop rapidly and is further on the advance. Whether urban (transport) planners and policy makers like it or not, they need to proactively prepare and develop approaches to planning that unleash the potential benefits and limit the potential drawbacks of CCAM solutions. The session will introduce the automation-readiness concept and linked CCAM-readiness self-assessment tool which have been developed to support the assessment of local challenges, opportunities, risks, and requirements for the deployment of CCAM services. Both readiness guidance tools are based on key principles of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) approach and the building blocks: policy, infrastructure, traffic management, planning, capacity building and users. The discussions will be organized in a World Café workshop format and structured around the automation-readiness conceptual building blocks. The format will foster an exchange about lessons learned, recommendations and best practices from planning for and implementing of CCAM solutions in cities. This workshop will also provide a window into potential operational and business models for shared and automated mobility that aligns with how public entities can achieve climate conscious land use Sustainable Urban Mobility (SUMP) outcomes. These concepts will be linked to future visions for CCAM-readiness assessment in the EU, US and beyond.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Henriette Cornet is leading the Thematic Area of Automated Mobility at UITP (International Association of Public Transport) in Brussels, Belgium where she supervises discussions and activities linked with Connected and Cooperative Automated Mobility (CCAM). She is also Project Coordinator of the European-funded project SHOW ‘Shared automation operating models for worldwide adoption’, one of the largest worldwide initiatives on the deployment of shared fleets of Automated Vehicles.
She graduated from the University of Technology of Troyes, France, as an Engineer in Material and Environmental Sciences in 2007. She received her doctoral degree from the Technical University of Munich in 2012. The topic of her PhD thesis was the development of a sustainability screening tool for decision-making assistance in the field of urban mobility.
From 2011 to 2016, she worked as consultant for the automotive industry in Germany (BMW, Audi) within R&D projects about electromobility and alternative fuels. She was also involved as project manager in several European-funded projects about energy management.
From 2017 to 2020, she worked in the research institute TUMCREATE in Singapore as Principal Investigator of the team ‘Design for Autonomous Mobility’. Her team investigated human-centric methods for design of Autonomous Vehicles for public transport in Singapore.
Her expertise is in Automated Mobility, investigating through projects and international collaborations the benefits, limitations, and requirements of the technology from a multi-stakeholder perspective.

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