252-Automated Trucking Research and Development
Date and Time: Tuesday, July 19: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Garden 1-3
Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) Freight: Research into Automated Port Operations and Automated Commercial Motor Vehicle Operations
Ed Leslie
Towards the Development of a Concept of Operations for Automated Driving Systems in Commercial Vehicle Operations
Richard Hanowski
Automated Freight Pathways and Local/State Infrastructure and Related Impacts
William Hwang
Automated Truck Mounted Attenuator (ATMA), remote operations with secured communications
Jean Paul Talledo Vilela
MODERATORS AND ORGANIZERS
MODERATORS
Andrew Krum, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
William (Billy) Hwang, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
ORGANIZERS
Andrew Krum, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
Nicole J. Katsikides, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Billy Hwang, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
SESSION DESCRIPTION AND AGENDA
Private and public organizations are focusing on the development and testing of automated trucks due to predicted safety improvements, an increasing demand for goods movement, and an expected significant return on investment. Benefits are expected to resolve challenges with labor shortages, supply chain inefficiencies, freight facility efficiency, and crashes involving trucks on the nation’s highways. Public agencies are seeking to engage with industry to define and provide the transportation architecture that will help enable these technologies to operate safely and efficiently. Private entities are already developing transfer hubs and facilities needed to implement automated trucks. There is a need to identify how the public and private sector can work together and how the public sector can support implementation and prepare for changes to freight movements and the impact on public infrastructure.
This session will dig into the details that manufacturers and developers, states and federal governments are working through to develop the path forward for automated trucking. During the event, the session will include live presentations and panels with time for questions and answers from the moderator and audience.
Panel 1 (60 minutes)
Moderator: Andrew Krum, VTTI
Heavy and Commercial Vehicle Government Activities
a. FHWA Update: Cooperative Automation Use Cases
Edward Leslie, Senior Electrical Engineer, Leidos
b. FMCSA Update: Automated Trucking Research Overview
Mike Lukuc, Manager, FMCSA Automated CMV Evaluation Program
c. Transport Canada Update: Automated Vehicle Safety Program
Peter Burns, Chief, Human Factors and Crash Avoidance Research
d. Trucking Automation Research Issues
Rich Hanowski, Director, Division of Freight, Transit, and Heavy Vehicle Safety, Virginia Tech
Transportation Institute
***10 Minute Break***
Panel 2 (60 minutes)
Moderator: William Hwang, TTI
Automated Freight Pathways and Local/State Infrastructure
a. Utilization of a Trucking Automation Hub Network
Lee White, Vice President of Strategy, TuSimple
Monika Darwish, Senior Corporate Counsel, Kodiak
b. State DOT / MPO Infrastructure Perspective
Kome Ajise, Executive Director, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG)
Andrea Hoff, Senior Project Manager, Otay Mesa East Port of Entry, San Diego Association of
Governments (SANDAG)
Zeke Reyna, Strategic Research Analyst, CAV Task Force, Texas Department of Transportation
(TxDOT)
***10 Minute Break***
Panel 3 (60 minutes)
Moderator: Andrew Krum, VTTI
Operational Use Cases for Automated Freight in Motion
a. Operation: Human Guided Autonomy
Michelle Chaka, Director for Safety Assurance and Standards, Locomation
b. Operation: Automated Solo
Emily Warren, Head of Public Policy, Embark
c. Operation: Automated Pod
Tim Dawkins, Director of Public Policy, Einride
d. Operation: Automated Remote Monitoring/Assistance
Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, CEO & Co-Founder, Stealth Startup
e. Operation: Research into Automated Command Applications
Jean Paul Talledo Vilela, Senior Technology Implementer, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND OUTPUTS
• Bring together a representative set of stakeholders to discuss advanced and automated freight delivery.
• Discuss the research, development, and testing activities that will lead to improved freight delivery.
• Identify what the public sector can do to support development and implementation, what they need to know?
• Share public sector capabilities with the private sector so that there is awareness of what each party can do.
• Output: Identification of the recent successes and remaining challenges to apply Level 2 and Level 4 trucking automation.
252-Automated Trucking Research and Development
Description