Session Moderators

Moderator(s): 
Jason JonMichael, Senior Strategist, U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, Highly Automated Systems Safety Center of Excellence 

First Responders: Thomas Barth, Ph.D., Chief, Special Investigations Branch, National Transportation Safety Board

Industry: Captain Bart Teeter, Texas Department of Public Safety

Blue Team Moderators: Commander Nicole H. Jones, San Franciso Police Department and Chief Sean Duggan (Ret.) Chandler Police Department

Red Team Moderators: Deputy Chief Reda Riddle-Bigler, Phoenix Fire Department and Ryan Yee, Zoox

Orange Team Moderators: David Bryson, Emergency Medical Services Specialist, Office of EMS, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Jeremy Shumaker, Senior Regional Director, Pacific Region, American Medical Response

Session Organizers

Organizers:
Session Contact: Jason JonMichael, Senior Strategist, HASS COE/OST-R

Session Organizing Team:
Jason JonMichael, Senior Strategist, HASS COE/OST-R
Virginia Lingham, P.E., Senior Vice President, National ITS Lead, WSP USA
Gamunu Wijetunge, NRP, Director, Office of Emergency Medical Services, NHTSA
David Bryson, Emergency Medical Services Specialist, Office of EMS, NHTSA
Kareem Habib, NHTSA ODI AETD Division*
Thomas Barth, Ph.D., Chief, Special Investigations Division, NTSB
Deputy Chief Reda Riddle-Bigler, Phoenix Fire Department
Ximon Zhu, Numobility
Alex Rudin, MITRE
Nanette Schieke, Maryland DOT
Jeff Wishart, Ph.D. ACA-Phoenix
Paul Steier, AAMVA
Natalie Hoffmeister, SFO
Komal Bhagat, Univ. Of Maryland
Ryan Zee, Zoox
Rob Patrick, Waymo
Captain Bart Teeter, Texas DPS
Commander Nicole H. Jones, San Franciso Police Department
Chief Sean Duggan (Ret.) - Chandler Police Department
Piet van Os, Waymo

TRB Sponsoring Committees and Partners

TRB Standing Committee on Regional Transportation Systems Management and Operations (ACP10)
TRB Joint Subcommittee on Emergency Response (AMR00(1))
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) –Connected and Automated Vehicle Impacts Committee (Invited)

Session Description and Agenda

Description

Standardized and accurate first responder crash and interaction information sharing at the various levels of driving automation can provide the apples-to-apples comparison that the traffic safety community needs to conduct better data analysis and targeted education.

The target audience is comprised of IOO’s, ADS developers, solutions providers and the first responder/enforcement colleagues at the city or state levels, DOTs and NHTSA.

This is an interactive design thinking session which starts with the first responder community who ultimately hold the keys to driving and generating change in AV interactions and data acquisition at the local level. The first panel will set the stage by describing the current state of practice from their perspectives. The objective of the panel is to discover our 1st Responder’s lived experiences and characterize the successes, learnings, and future needs.

Agenda

• 1:30 – 1:40
Welcome Remarks (10 min)
Jason JonMichael, USDOT HASS COE
Virginia Lingham, WSP
Rob Patrick, Waymo

• 1:40 – 2:25
Moderated panel discussion of first responders/DOTs/NHTSA sharing their experiences with AV crash data, the state of their practice, and lessons learned from EVs. (45 min)

Moderator: Thomas Barth, Ph.D., Chief, Special Investigations Branch, NTSB

Panelists:
Chief Darius Luttropp, Deputy Chief of Operations, San Francisco Fire Department
David Bryson, Emergency Medical Services Specialist, Office of EMS, NHTSA
Chief David Jenkins, Information Management Division, California Highway Patrol
Jeremey Shumaker, Senior Regional Director, Pacific Region, American Medical Response

• 2:25 – 2:55
A moderated group think session to define and then vote on the top 3 needs/gaps for this year’s exercise, we will keep a running list for future sessions. The exercise will present a generic scenario that includes the lived experience characteristics presented in the opening panel.

Each table will have a piece of construction paper – Blue (police), Red (Fire), and Orange (EMS), representing each of the 1st Responder groups. All groups will represent Dispatch/CAD. Each table’s participants will vote from the lenses of the group their table was assigned.

We will use Mentimeter, or similar, to collect the group think and select the top 3.

We are aiming for 1 need/gap each for police, fire, EMS but don’t want to prescribe such. (30 min total: 20 mins of exercise; 10 mins voting/reporting out results).

We will be employing the "roses, thorns/buds" modality of moderation for this session.

Session Leader: Ximon Zhu, Numobility

Exercise 1 Moderator: Jeffrey Wishart, Ph.D. ACA-Phoenix
Exercise 2 Moderator: Alex Rudin, Ph.D. MITRE
Exercise 3 Moderator: Deputy Chief Reda Riddle-Bigler, Phoenix Fire Department

● 2:55 – 3:10
15-Min Break

● 3:10 – 3:55
Industry panel ideating/sharing on first responder interaction and training best practices, lessons learned, and characteristics of quality, accurate and uniform data of AV crashes and interactions. (45 min)

Moderator: Captain Bart Teeter, Texas Department of Public Safety

Panelists:
Nanette Schieke, Maryland DOT
Reda Riddle-Bigler, Phoenix Fire Department
Paul Steier, AAMVA
Rob Patrick, Waymo


● 3:55 – 4:40
The session will break into smaller breakout groups to ideate solutions and create action-oriented statements of how prototypes of their solutions could be implemented between now and ARTS25.

Groups will assemble into the three color-coded first responder lenses used in the previous session (Blue, Red, Orange) and attendance. Group leaders will oversee the breakouts. Groups will self-select a spokesperson to deliver to the larger group. (45 min)

Blue Team Moderators: Commander Nicole H. Jones, San Franciso Police Department and Chief Sean Duggan (Ret.) - Chandler Police Department

Red Team Moderators: Deputy Chief Reda Riddle-Bigler, Phoenix Fire Department and Ryan Yee, Zoox

Orange Team Moderators: David Bryson, Emergency Medical Services Specialist, Office of EMS, NHTSA and Jeremy Shumaker, Senior Regional Director, Pacific Region, American Medical Response


● 4:40 – 5:00
Report out on solutions and local action statements, tease what we want to do next year, ask for feedback. (15 min report out, 5 min close).

Session Objectives

The overarching goal with this session is to create sustainable participation by our first responder community at ARTS...every year. Standardized first responder interactions and accurate crash and interaction information sharing at the various levels of driving automation can provide the apples-to-apples comparison that the traffic safety community needs to conduct better data analysis and targeted education. The target audience is comprised of IOO’s and their first responder/enforcement colleagues at the city or state levels, DOTs and NHTSA.

Attendees would benefit by being informed of current first responder interaction protocols and the state of documenting AV crash and interaction reporting; joining a national dialogue of the traffic safety community’s current and future needs regarding documenting AVs in reports; and starting/joining a community of practice or connecting existing communities of practice on safe and effective integration of AVs into the transportation system.

This is an interactive design thinking session which starts with the first responder community who ultimately hold the keys to driving and generating change in AV interactions and data acquisition at the local level. The first panel will set the stage by describing the current state of practice from their perspectives. The objective of the panel is to discover our 1st Responder’s lived experiences and characterize the successes needs/gaps.