Date and Time: Wednesday, July 12, 2023: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Henriette Cornet
Thematic Area Leader Automated Mobility, UITP - International Association of Public Transport
Presentation Description
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.
