Date and Time: Tuesday, July 11, 2023: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Jane Lappin
Principal, Chair, TRB Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation
Presentation Description
Speaker Biography
Jane Lappin chairs Transportation Research Board Vehicle-Highway Automation Committee and is co-founder and current organizer of the annual Automated Road Transportation Symposium, now in its 12th year. She recently retired as Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs for Toyota Research Institute where she engaged globally in activities related to the safe and equitable operations of highly automated vehicles. Previously, Ms. Lappin worked for USDOT Volpe Center, where she managed projects assessing public response to advanced vehicle technologies and the impact of those technologies on driver behaviour. Ms. Lappin served as USDOT secretariat to the trilateral US-EU-Japan international research collaboration on intelligent transportation, and as the US co-chair of the US-EU-Japan Automation in Road Transportation Working Group. Before discovering her true calling in transportation, Jane worked for Abt Associates in their business strategy group, for the Canadian International Development Agency evaluating women’s economic development programs in Bangladesh, and co-directing a public health survey in Haiti. She studied sociology as an undergraduate at Boston University and earned an MBA from the Simmons College Graduate School of Management, the world’s only all women’s business school. Ms. Lappin is currently consulting on automated vehicles safety, operations, and policy issues.
