351-Evaluating First Responder Interactions as the AV Market Expands
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 20: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Garden 1-3
Aravind Kailas
Jianming Ma
Julia Friedlander
Mike Fergus
Mohamed Ahmed
CARMA Platform Enabled Cooperative Driving Automation for Traffic Incident Management
Michael McConnell
MODERATORS AND ORGANIZERS
MODERATORS
Virginia Lingham, P.E., Assistant Vice President and Director - ITS/CAV, WSP USA
Amy Chu, PMP, Director, Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium
Tammy Trimble, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
ORGANIZERS
Session Contact:
Virginia Lingham, Assistant Vice President and Director, ITS/CAV, WSP USA
Session Organizing Team:
● Virginia Lingham, P.E., Director – ITS/CAV, WSP USA
● Amy Chu, PMP, Director, Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium
● Tammy Trimble, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
● Zorica Cvijovic, Ph.D., Connected Vehicles Strategist, Trihydro Corporation
● Michael Brown, PMP, Institute Engineer, Southwest Research Institute
● Matt Smith, P.E., Assistant Chief, Brighton Area Fire Department
● Aravind Kailas, Ph.D., Advanced Technology Policy Director, Volvo Group
SESSION DESCRIPTION AND AGENDA
This session will create a unique opportunity for dialog between first responders, vehicle technology providers, and those who have planned or led recent deployments. Our overall objective is to gather candid feedback on how things are going, what has worked well, and what could be improved to better define the needs of each stakeholder group and to identify future research topics. The session will begin with short presentations from industry experts to set the stage for the discussion and will wrap up with a focus on policy perspectives to guide future research and activities.
Agenda
Welcome (10 min)
Moderator: Virginia Lingham, WSP USA
Description: The welcome will include an overview of the agenda for the session as well as the session objectives. An interactive poll will be conducted to capture the mix of participants in the room.
Policy Perspectives and Current Trends (25 min)
Speaker: Tammy Trimble, VTTI
Description: Industry groups help to guide policy around these topics. This presentation will highlight current projects, perspectives, priorities, and needs in order to set the tone and focus for the session.
First Responder Interaction and Deployment Experience (90 min)
Moderator: Amy Chu, AVSC
Description: Brief presentations will be followed by a facilitated discussion and interactive activities led by the moderator. Opportunities for Q&A will be integrated into the panel.
Panelists:
First Responder/Public Sector
● Mike Fergus, International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
● Julia Friedlander, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)
● Cynthia Jones, Drive Ohio
● Jianming Ma, Ph.D., P.E., PMP, Texas Department of Transportation
Industry
● Gary L. McCarthy, Aurora
● Michelle Chaka, Locomation
● Greg Rogers, Nuro
Academia
● Dr. Larry Head, University of Arizona
● Dr. Mohamed Ahmed, Wyoming State University
**15 min BREAK**
Vehicle Technology Advances (20 min)
Moderators: Zorica Cvijovic, Trihydro
Description: Vehicle Technology deployers who have experience with AVs (pilots/demos/or fully operational) share their experiences with a focus on identifying research needs. The panel could highlight new technology, training, or references that are expected soon. Brief presentations will be followed by a facilitated discussion led by the moderator and then Q&A.
Panelists:
● Michael McConnell, Leidos / CARMA
● Gunnar Rhone, PennDOT
What NEXT? / Wrap up (20 min)
Moderator: Virginia Lingham, WSP USA
Description: Interactive prioritization exercise to define and rank the research needs identified in the session. The wrap-up will seek to tie back to research needs, who’s working on things, and who else might need to be engaged as next steps are defined.
GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND OUTPUTS
● Hold an open dialog to reveal actual challenges associated with recent experiences with AVs, exploring various vehicle types.
● Advance the state-of-the-practice and awareness of transportation infrastructure protection and emergency management through training, technical assistance, and technology transfer activities.
● Identify opportunities for AVs to improve the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of emergency response and emergency management scenarios.
● Continue to define research needs to develop connected infrastructure systems for enabling and integrating automated vehicles that are able to help reduce incident response times and improve multimodal safety on the surface transportation network.
351-Evaluating First Responder Interactions as the AV Market Expands
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