206-Business and Governance Models Over the World: An Open Forum on Success Factors and Expectations
Date and Time: Tuesday, July 30, 2024: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Indigo H
Session Moderators
Moderator(s):
Henriette Cornet, University of San Francisco
Session Organizers
Organizers:
Dr. Henriette Cornet, University of San Francisco
Prof. William Riggs, University of San Francisco
TRB Sponsoring Committees and Partners
TRB Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation (ACP30)
Session Description and Agenda
Description
The session explores and assesses existing and potential business and governance models shaping the future of shared autonomous mobility in urban and peri urban context. The session will look beyond autonomous passenger cars and delve into diverse vehicle platforms with a keen focus on public-private partnerships, where the city mandates private mobility providers to achieve its environmental and societal goals in a cost-efficient way. We will discuss success factors worldwide, drawing inspiration from cities in Europe, Japan, and U.S. Real-world collaborations, like Hamburger Hochbahn with MOIA and VW, will offer a glimpse into the future, while public-private partnerships (PPP) between TNCs and transit agencies e.g. in Texas highlight the transformative potential of paratransit. Together with participants of the audience, the workshop will work to develop concrete best practices for pinpointing revenue generation and cost efficiency, particularly for transit agencies and operators and the crucial attributes of how to make PPP a success. The goal will be to gain a more critical understanding of cost efficiency and revenue, examine financial models and trade-offs to align urban goals of equity, accessibility, and sustainability for the joint future of autonomous shared mobility and public transit.
Agenda
Open the session by the session organizers, Henriette Cornet & Billy Riggs, University of San Francisco [~2 min]
Keynote by Arnd Bätzner, Transit Strategist [~8 min]
Presentation session [50 min]
● Live Audience Poll [10 min]: Session will begin with live audience polling to gather opinions on key topics. This will include preferences for specific mobility models, opinions on public-private partnerships, or thoughts on the importance of shared mobility integration as well as ideation on pricing from a revenue and expense standpoint.
● Presentation and Virtual Tours [40 min]: Following this, experts will offer virtual tours of innovative mobility projects with successful collaborations among stakeholders
○ Tammy Meehan Russell, the PLUM Catalyst – on the goMARTI project
○ Tom Alkim, MAPtm – on international collaborations & FAME project
○ Umeda Manabu, University of Tokyo – on workforce & impact on business models
○ Benjamin Lindborg, Ruter – on procurement processes for radical innovations
Interactive session [30 min]
● Breakout Case Study Analysis: Small groups will be presented with real-world case studies related to shared and autonomous mobility in cities other than the ones represented in the session. Participants will analyze and discuss these cases in small groups, sharing their findings and potential solutions. The analysis will encourage networking and in-depth conversations.
○ Dynamic group report outs (tbd.)
Break [30 min]
Panel discussion [60 min]:
● Results of the breakout case study analysis [15 min]
● Panel Discussion with 2 moderators [45 min]: Experts will respond to the case studies and offer additional insights and details of how they would approach them
■ Alison Pascale, Governmental Affairs, VW (talking points: need for regulations at higher/federal level, still in discussion with cities)
■ Guido de Pasquale, PAVE Europe
■ George Ivanov, Waymo
■ Matthew Daus, president of International Association of Transportation Regulators
● Virtual Q&A integrated within the panel discussion and facilitated by the moderators.
Session Objectives
- Focus on broader perspectives than robotaxi deployments in the U.S. and explore worldwide best practices from U.S., EU, Japan and more.
- Concrete results of public-private partnerships where cost efficiency is improved for transit agencies and operators and revenues can be generated in the future
- Emphasize why and how shared mobility and public transit integration is important for cost efficiency and revenue streams
- Look at financial models and tradeoffs to best serve societal goals of cities (equity, accessibility, sustainability, etc.)
Session Presentations
The Need for Social Framing of AV Technology |
Arnd Bätzner
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Insights from goMARTI - A Collaborative Pilot for On-demand and Inclusive AV Services |
Tammy Meehan Russell
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On International Collaboration for Connected and Automated Driving |
Tom Alkim
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On Workforces and Impact on Business Models |
Manabu Umeda
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On Procurement Processes for Radical Innovations |
Benjamin Lindborg
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Panel Discussion: Governance Models |
Alison Pascale
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Panel Discussion: Governance Models |
Guido Di Pasquale
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Panel Discussion: Governance Models |
George Ivanov
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Panel Discussion: Governance Models |
Matthew Daus
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