331-Mitigating Climate Change with ART Technologies
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 20: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Terrace
Plugging ART into cities' climate neutrality: the European experience
Andrea De Candido
MODERATORS AND ORGANIZERS
MODERATORS
Katherine Kortum, Senior Program Officer, Transportation Research Board
Danielle Chou, Enabling Technologies Program Manager, Federal Highway Administration
ORGANIZERS
Jaap Vreeswijk, Traffic Architect, MAP traffic management (session contact)
Katherine Kortum, Senior Program Officer, Transportation Research Board
Danielle Chou, Enabling Technologies Program Manager (FWHA), US Department of Transportation
Tom Alkim, Strategic Advisor CCAM, MAP traffic management
Wolfgang Backhaus, Team Leader Collective & Intelligent Mobility, Rupprecht Consult
Siegfried Rupprecht, CEO, Rupprecht Consult
SESSION DESCRIPTION AND AGENDA
One of the major challenges for society today is to reach environmental goals. This session will brainstorm how ART technologies help us achieve this ambition. Many discussions about ART technologies revolve around automation feasibility and improving safety, but we have not fully explored the potential of automation as a catalyst or enabler to transform society to an ecologically sustainable state. The goal for this session is to hypothesize potential outcomes for both the urban environment and for mobility systems, and discuss what role ART technologies can play in achieving key environmental goals, especially decarbonization.
10:30 PM – 10:55 PM Plenary introduction (25 min)
Speakers will offer their views on the climate change urgency, the ambition to create climate neutral cities, and the challenges and opportunities for mobility systems and mobilty planning. They will address the impact of vehicle automation to achieve climate goals. Finally, they will present concrete and practical instruments to support governments, planners, industry and providers of mobility solutions to move forward.
Introduction to the breakout session by session moderator
Katherine Kortum, Senior Program Officer, Transportation Research Board
EU strategy for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) and its relation to the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission
Andrea de Candido, Policy Officer, Future Urban and Mobility Systems at DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Planning for Net Zero Cities
Wolfgang Backhaus, Team Leader Collective & Intelligent Mobility, Rupprecht Consult
Tom Alkim, Strategic Advisor CCAM, MAP traffic management
10:55 PM – 11:45 PM Design thinking a climate neutral mobility system (50 min)
Facilitators: Danielle Chou (US DOT), Katherine Kortum (TRB), Tom Alkim (MAPtm)
Breakout groups will be tasked to produce designs that contribute to climate neutrality and lead to decarbonization of the mobility system. One of the central questions is the enabling capacity of transportation automation and connectivity to serve society in this transition. Breakout groups will be stimulated to generate as many ideas as possible to advance a climate neutral mobility system using ART technologies for a fictive yet realistic scenery (urban, suburban, rural). Breakout groups are free to focus on passenger transport or freight transport. In addition, they will be challenged to also make their mobility systems responsible, i.e. safe, inclusive, high quality of life, affordable, resilient, etc.
Designs will be presented in the plenary conclusions part. Example products from this portion of the breakout session may include narratives, storyboards, perspective-taking, mind mapping, word clouds, architectural mockups and/or maps, product mockups, etc.
11:45 PM – 12:00 PM Plenary conclusion (15 min)
Each group will be asked to present their top 5 recommendations and reflect on any new opportunities for automation that they had not thought of before. Finally the facilitators will share their observations and together summarise the main conclusions.
GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND OUTPUTS
• Increase awareness of how ART technologies can potentially either mitigate or worsen climate change;
• Create a new narrative for a sustainable transportation network and mobility system that can help mitigate climate change, and identify the role of automation in that vision;
• Identify ART research questions and analyses that need to be done in order to inform design of a sustainable mobility system
331-Mitigating Climate Change with ART Technologies
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