The Need for Social Framing of AV Technology
Date and Time: Tuesday, July 30, 2024: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Indigo H
Arnd Bätzner
Transit Strategist, University of St. Gallen
Presentation Description
This keynote is an invitation to further thinking on we are headed in reflections on CAV use cases and business models. It asks what social and economic criteria could drive integration with fixed route transit, including partial substitution of applications where the 40ft transit bus on infrequent schedules never had been an appropriate tool. It invites to focus on land--use scenarios and the spatial ordering function of high-volume mass transit corridors, calls for redefining the role and financing of transit, and how notions of public spaces, implementations and handling of connected and affected industries such as retail formats, as well as basic societal functions play into conceptualizing CAV robofleets as integral part of future transit systems. The keynote suggests that while for systemic training and prototyping, today's tests of CAVs in dense urban cores are adequate, commercial deployment should rather focus on suburban, exurban and rural areas.
Speaker Biography
Arnd Bätzner provides government advisory on the alignment of multi-modal transit systems with the built environment and strategic land use planning. Focus areas include physical and data integration of future autonomous and demand-responsive transport with high-capacity modes, designs of passenger intermodal facilities and bus electrification strategies. Holding a diploma as concert pianist from Geneva Conservatory and a master in physics and a major in transit management from ETH Zurich, Arnd is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of St.Gallen’s Institute for Systemic Management and Public Governance: His academic research focuses on urban elevated walkability enhancers such as skybridges, cable cars and people movers.
Arnd has been directing projects in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas for both the public and private sector, including customers as diverse as the Ministries of Transport and Public Works of France, Cambodia and Luxembourg, UNDP, the Swiss Federal Roads Office, global architecture firms, rail, bus and cable transport OEMs and operators.
Since 2011, Arnd is a board of directors member of Switzerland’s nationwide Mobility Car Sharing system, in charge of market foresight. Arnd is co-chairing the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport’s strategic advisory board on research, technology and innovation. He chaired UITP’s trolleybus committee and is now heading its outreach and advocacy team. Arnd is a member of the U.S. Transportation Research Board’s committees on Rail Transit Systems and on Emerging and Innovative Public Transportation Technologies.
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IP-Keynote “The need for social framing of AV technology”
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