Committee Important Information Update - AVS 2016

Post date: Sep 14, 2016 1:55:10 PM

From: Steven E. SHLADOVER <steve@path.berkeley.edu>

Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 12:48 AM

To: steve@path.berkeley.edu

Subject: TRB Vehicle-Highway Automation Committee -- Important information update

Dear members and friends of the TRB Vehicle-Highway Automation Committee (AHB30):

I hope that your summer has been going well. Last month, we concluded our very successful Automated Vehicles Symposium 2016 in San Francisco, with almost 1200 registered attendees. It has already become the second-largest meeting on the TRB calendar, exceeded only by the Annual Meeting. For those of you who attended but have not yet responded to the survey of participants, please fill out the online survey so that we can gain the benefit of your inputs as we plan for next year’s Automated Vehicles Symposium (specific dates and venue to be announced soon). You can access the survey at:

https://auvsi.formstack.com/forms/avs_2016_survey

Most of the plenary and breakout session presentations are also available online at:

http://www.automatedvehiclessymposium.org/program/proceedings

Click on the pdf symbol next to each listed item to access the file. A few of the speakers and breakout organizers have not supplied their material yet, so if the item you are interested in is not available yet, check back later to see if it has been added.

The fall season has already arrived in the form of the TRB Annual Meeting paper review process, which is starting this weekend. Our Committee received 75 papers for peer review this year, a growth of 50% from last year’s record total, which means that we have a very heavy paper reviewing job ahead of us during the next month. Prof. Henry Liu of the University of MIchigan has generously agreed to co-chair the paper review process with me, and we have divided the papers between us for coordinating reviews. Many of you will be receiving messages from Henry and me in the coming days, through the TRB web-based review system, inviting you to review papers. As soon as you receive one of these invitations, PLEASE respond right away to indicate whether you are willing and able to accept the review assignment. If you will not be able to do the review, we need to know right away so that we can seek an alternate reviewer (and we will welcome your recommendations for alternate reviewers). These reviews need to be submitted within the next month to meet the deadlines for programming papers for the Annual Meeting.

One other item that you may be interested in is a new meeting that TRB has organized to build on our successes with connected and automated vehicle systems and identify additional “transformational technologies” that will have major influences on the future of transportation and that will be opportunities for new public-private-academic partnerships. The notice about this follows here:

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine is sponsoring the “Partners in Research Symposium: Transformational Technologies” on October 31-November 1, 2016, in Detroit, Michigan.Registration is open and Patron opportunities are available. Additional details can be found under the “Program” tab in thesymposium website.

New technologies have the potential to transform transportation as we know it. Public agencies are being challenged to facilitate the deployment of these technologies in a manner and timeframe that will lead to improved safety, reduced congestion, enhanced sustainability, and economic development. This TRB symposium will bring leaders from the public and private sectors and academia together to help generate research and innovations to enable agencies to meet this challenge. The symposium will lay the foundation for research roadmaps and partnerships. Technologies that are expected to be addressed include connected and automated vehicles, shared-use mobility services, smart cities and the internet-of-things, unmanned aircraft systems, NextGen, big data and cybersecurity, and alternative fueled vehicles.

Please feel free to contact Mark Norman (mnorman@nas.edu), Katherine Kortum (kkortum@nas.edu), or Adrienne Blackwell (ablackwell@nas.edu) if you have any questions.

More details on TRB programs and activities addressing Transformational Technologies in Transportation can be found athttp://www.trb.org/main/TransTech.aspx.

Best regards,

Steve Shladover

Chair, AHB30 – Vehicle-Highway Automation