Session Moderators

Moderator(s): 
Edward Straub, Director, SAE Office of Automation, SAE International 

Julia M. C. Friedlander, Senior Manager, Automated Driving Policy, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Session Organizers

Organizers:
Julia M. C. Friedlander, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Edward Straub, SAE International

TRB Sponsoring Committees and Partners

TRB Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation (ACP30)

Session Description and Agenda

Description

Throughout the history of human transportation, humans have acted as the interface between vehicles (automobiles, trucks, horses, bicycles, etc.) and the physical transportation network. Making meaning from rules, social cues, and interacting with other road users have always assumed a human decision-maker. As more automated vehicles participate in the transportation system and new technologies proliferate, the need for collaboration between developers, researchers, road owners and regulators is becoming more urgent.

This session will focus on whether and how industry best practices and standards can facilitate automated vehicle deployments and identify new topics for collaboration and standardization between cities the automated vehicle industry and regulators.

Agenda

1. Welcome and Introductions:
Julia Friedlander, SFMTA
Edward Straub, SAE International

2. Panel 1: Communication between ADS and other street users, including VRU, road workers and first responders

Confirmed speakers from AVSC, Volkswagen, San Francisco Fire Department, UCLA New Mobility Center of Excellence


3. Panel 2: Managing Operational risk, ensuring continuous improvement and measuring performance

Confirmed speakers from Volkswagen, SFMTA Transit Safety Engineering, Science Foundation of Arizona, NHTSA


4. Workshop:
Participants will leverage information from the panels and their own experiences in small groups to identify high priority subject matter for short- and medium-term industry best practices and standards development. Input will be consolidated and used to propose roadmaps/agendas for technical and process-related best practices, standards, and topics requiring additional research.

Session Objectives

There are 3 primary goals for this session:

1. Share existing standards and stakeholder needs across stakeholder groups

2. Develop a roadmap of key research topics, best practices documents and industry standards that can contribute most to the safe and efficient deployment of driverless ADS deployments in urban areas

3. Describe the role the ‘‘absence of unreasonable risk” plays in safely scaling ADS and how communicating the concept might contribute to or hinder public trust.

Any of the following best practices/industry standards documents may be discussed:

•. AVSC Interactions Between ADS-Dedicated Vehicles and Vulnerable Road Users
•. AVSC Best Practice for First Responder Interactions with Fleet Managed Automated Driving System Dedicated Vehicles (also SAE J0911; under development)
• AVSC Best Practice for ADS Remote Assistance Use Cases
•. SAE ADS Marker Lamp (J3134)

•. AVSC Best Practice for Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance of Automated Driving Systems
•. AVSC Best Practice for Developing ADS Safety Performance Thresholds Based on Human Driving Behavior
•. AVSC Best Practice for Data Collection for Automated Driving System Dedicated Vehicles to Support Event Analysis
•. AVSC Best Practice for Continuous Monitoring & Improvement after Deployment
• AVSC Information Report for Adapting a Safety Management System for Automated Driving System SAE Level 4 and 5 Testing and Evaluation