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2019 BREAKOUT SESSIONS TRACK: POLICY AND PLANNING ________________________________________________________ Monday, July 15, 2019 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM Preparing for Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility: The Existential Questions Room: Canary 2 Organizers Katherine Kortum, Senior Program Officer, Transportation Research Board Mark Norman, Scholar, Transportation Research Board Session Description This session will discuss the long-term questions around automation and shared mobility and summarize the work that the TRB Forum on Preparing for Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility has done in its year and a half of existence. Goals/Objectives/Outputs • Engage in the same discussions that the TRB Forum has been having • Provide input that is likely to influence TRB’s work in the short and medium term • Hear summaries of workshops that Forum members have put on in the first half of 2019 Agenda 1:30 PM Introduction • Katherine Kortum, Transportation Research Board 1:40 PM Guiding Principles for Connected Infrastructure Supporting Cooperative Automated Transportation • Gummada Murthy, AASHTO 1:55 PM Topic 1: Transitioning toward Shared and Automated Vehicles • Tim Papandreou, Emerging Transport Advisors 2:10 PM Topic 2: The Role of Connectivity • Jeff Lindley, Institute of Transportation Engineers 2:25 PM Topic 3: Potential Impacts on the Roles of Different Levels of Government and of the Private Sector • Trish Hendren, I-95 Corridor Coalition 2:40 PM Topic 4: Financing, Funding, and Economic Implications • King Gee, AASHTO, and Art Guzzetti, APTA 2:55 PM Topic 5: Aligning the Research Process with the Speed of Development • Abbas Mohaddas, Econolite 3:10 PM Break 3:20 PM Discussion: Audience and Panel Thoughts about the 5 Topics and Research Needs within Each • Moderator: Katherine Kortum, TRB 5:30 PM Adjourn breakout session Working with Infrastructure Owner-Operators to Overcome Public Sector Institutional Barriers and Safely Implement Roadway Automation Room: Grand 14 Organizers Ted Bailey, Cooperative Automated Transportation Program Manager, Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Daniela Bremmer, Cooperative Automated Transportation Development Manager, Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Robert Dingess, President, Mercer Strategic Alliance, Inc. Brian Watson, Director of Business Development and Innovative Programs, American Traffic Safety Services Administration (ATSSA) Shane McKenzie, Transportation Engineer Specialist, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Paul Carlson, Chief Technology Officer, Road Infrastructure Inc., Jose Herrera-Alonso, 3M Shawn Brovolds, Market Development Manager – Connected Roads, 3M Sandra Larson, Stanley Consultants Gaia Borgias, Program Manager, Mobility Innovation Center CoMotion at University of Washington Bruce Haldors, CEO, Transpo Group Ryan Snyder, Principle, Transpo Group Session Description Public Sector Infrastructure Owner Operators (IOOs) face many challenges and barriers to implementing roadway automation. At the same time, the private sector (OEMs, Tier 1 and Infrastructure Suppliers), consultants and academia are moving at a scale and pace that significantly exceed IOO’s readiness to engage and capacity to adapt. This creates roadblocks for innovation. The objective of this breakout session is to create a better, mutual understanding of IOO’s and private sector assumptions and needs. The focus will be on finding workable solutions to overcome roadblocks and institutional barriers. This will support effective partnerships between private and public partners and help IOOs adopt and implement the automated and connected technologies that are currently being developed at a rapid pace. Goals/Objectives/Outputs • Candid conversations to facilitate open and tangible dialogue on how to support near term investment and deployment opportunities between IOOs and private sector • Better private sector understanding of IOOs and how to engage State DOTs / IOOs. • Identify real, near-term partnership opportunities: between State DOTs / IOOs and the Private Sector. Discuss where DOTs are planning to invest and what specific things are needed prior to making investment commitments • Facilitate learning and identify a conceptual framework for sharing information and learning from the pilots, demonstrations and initial deployments. • Summary of institutional barriers and actionable steps to address barriers • Tangible prioritized next steps oriented roundtable discussions to facilitate continued partnership conversations following the breakout for all participants. • Overall, increased State DOT participation and engagement 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM Welcome and Introductions Setting the stage for candid conversations • Ted Bailey, Cooperative Automated Transportation (CAT) Program Manager, WSDOT 1:40 PM – 3:15 PM What does the partnership journey look like in the real-world? Description: Opening Panel Panelists will provide succinct, transparent and thought-provoking remarks based on personal experiences relative to the identified focus areas. This will prepare workshop participants for the interactive and facilitated Q&A and mini-breakout sessions that follow. 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Break 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM: Interactive Discussions: Identify Barriers and Solutions /Opportunities Description: Interactive, mini-breakouts to reflect on opening panel. Identify barriers and possible opportunities to overcome barriers. 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Reviewing Opportunities to Overcome Barriers / Prioritized Voting Description: Participants in the room will have the opportunity to review the Top 10 barriers and possible opportunities to overcome those barriers based on the mini-breakout group discussions. 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM Session Title: Moving Forward (Conclusion) • Ted Bailey, Cooperative Automated Transportation (CAT) Program Manager, WSDOT Description: Each Break-out Facilitator shares the Top 1 or 2 opportunities to overcome the primary barriers discussed. What follow-up actions should be brought to a sponsoring group (e.g. TRB Committee) and/or others decision making forum for action. Ethical Algorithms in Autonomous Vehicles – Part 1 Room: Crystal K/L Organizers Nicholas G. Evans, University of Massachusetts Lowell Pamela Robinson, University of Massachusetts Lowell/Australian National University Session Description We bring together internationally recognized and emerging scholars in ethics and policy to present new work in machine ethics and the ethics of autonomous vehicles. The two days of programming will feature discussions and conceptual innovation in the ethics of autonomous vehicles, followed by an open forum to identify emerging issues and develop collaborations for future work. NEW for 2019: We’ll discuss how trust and uncertainty figure in the ethics of autonomous vehicles, and we’ll consider the effects of autonomous vehicles on society. Objectives Identify emerging ethical challenges in future transport systems Build networks of researchers to advance solutions to these problems Engage in a forum to promote the next generation of leadership in the ethical deployment of autonomous vehicles. Agenda – Day One 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Opening Remarks • Nicholas Evans, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM Modelling the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles Using Model of Resource and Time-Based Triage (MORTT) We present work from a collaboration between Gryphon Scientific, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Manhattan College, and CalPoly San Luis Obispo to model traffic interactions concerning autonomous vehicles, using MORTT. • Rocco Casagrande, Principal, Gryphon Scientific 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM Break 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Presentation: How much should an AV know? • Katherine Evans, Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy, Sorbonne University, VEDECOM 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Panel: Ethical Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles Panelists discuss the challenges we face in designing ethical autonomous vehicles or autonomous vehicles that behave in line with our values. Panelists: • Duncan Purves, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Florida • Damien P. Williams, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University • Sarah Thornton, Built Robotics 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM Conclusion Shark Tank III: Active Debate regarding AVs impact on Land Use; Resiliency; Congestion Pricing; High-Speed Rail Room: Crystal E/F Organizers Dr. Richard Mudge, President, Compass Transportation and Technology Dr. Alain Kornhauser, Professor and Director of Transportation Program, Princeton University Dr. Steven Polzin, Program Director, Mobility Policy Research at Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida Dr. Sven Beiker, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Mobility Session Description The Shark Tank format stimulates active debate on topics with important implications for the future of autonomous vehicles. Topics cover policy, planning, regulations, economics, and of course technology. The sharks highlight issues that may have been overlooked or that would benefit from a frank debate. All modes are covered. Formal speeches are kept to a minimum. A group of commentators (the sharks) ask provocative questions and may engage in debate among themselves as well as with the presenter and the audience. Ample time is allowed for comments and questions from the audience. A sense of humor is encouraged. Goals/Objectives/Outputs Considerable controversy exists regarding how AVs will affect society – and whether these impacts are positive or negative. Even when no consensus can