Committee Meeting

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TRB Vehicle-Highway Automation Committee (AHB30)

AGENDA

14 January 2020

Marriott Marquis Salon 5 (M2)

1:30 Chair’s Welcome

1:40 Self Introductions

1:55 Triennial Planning Session

We are writing a TSP to establish direction for our future AHB30 activities, to focus our efforts, and to provide a framework for collaboration with other TRB committees.

Session Goals:

1. Identify the priorities and topics that will guide the Vehicle-Highway Automation Committee for the next three years.

2. Identify practical TRB activities to accomplish.

3. Establish a time-limited task force that will draft the plan for full committee review in the three weeks following TRB. The Chair will take all comments into consideration and finalize the plan by the Ides of March. – include outreach to other committees where collaboration would be best approach

1:55 Session overview: Shelley Row, Insightful Leadership Institute

2:10 Keynote: Setting the stage: Steve Shladover, Chair Emeritus

2:25 Discussion and discussants:

· Q&A

· Discussants

· Identification of research areas/questions

· Proposals for specific activities

3:00 “Strategery”

· Agreement on priority issues to be addressed over the next 3 years

· Sorting proposals among the priorities they address

· Ranking and voting: Sticky dots for importance, signing your name where you’ll volunteer

3:30 Next steps

· Summary, formation of task groups, agreement on schedule

3:45 TRB and Committee Reports

· Paper Reviews: Yeganeh Hayeri and Guoyuan Wu, AHB30 Paper Review Coordinators

· Research Needs Statements: Noah Goodall, AHB30 Research Coordinator, with Sandra Larson and Cynthia Jones

· Automated Vehicles NCHRP activities: Ray Derr, TRB

· Forum on Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility: Katherine Kortum, TRB

· TRB Update: Rich Cunard, TRB, and Rob Bertini, AHB00 Section Chair

4:15 Research of Note and in Progress

· Ensar Becic, NTSB, Update on NTSB Accident Investigations

· Markos Papageorgiou, Technical University of Crete, “Lane-free Artificial-Fluid Environment for Vehicular Traffic.” For more information https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11642

· Angelos Amditis, Institute of Communication & Computer Systems, Greece: INFRAMIX - Classification Scheme for the digital and physical infrastructure, and ICT4CART - Hybrid infrastructure for higher automation including connectivity issues and digital infrastructure

· Fabrizio Minarini, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Update on EC Initiatives to Support Type Approval of Automated Vehicles and Vehicle Safety Technologies and their Testing for Market Surveillance

NOTES

I’ve written the following discussion notes to get you started in your thinking about the AHB30 triennial strategic plan. If you don’t see your work reflected in these notes, be sure to bring your ideas forward in the AHB30 meeting.

Discussion

What is the domain of AHB30?

AHB30 is part of the TRB Operations Section, thus our focus has been on the intersection of highly automated vehicles and road network operations. But as AVs have become better understood and more promising, other committees have added AV impacts to their agenda. We may want to prioritize issues that intersect with other committees, such as managed lanes, traffic simulation, planning, human factors, or history.

What are AHB30 priorities?

Our choices will flow from our priorities. We can probably agree on high-level priorities: safety, equity, efficiency, personal mobility, and environmental sustainability. But digging deeper to develop more specific direction, there are many choices.

We’ll spend some time brainstorming areas of research that fit the “critical” screen. Topics that come quickly to mind include: Accessibility, AV fleet penetration for safety, Serving transit deserts, Workforce impacts, Ethics, Public acceptance.

Let us draw from our individual areas of expertise to identify critical near-, mid-, and longer-term policy and technical research issues. If we want to include issues that are beyond our expertise, we can recruit and collaborate. Once we group the Committee’s research issues by time-scale and domain, we can prioritize among them for further development of specific actions.

What can AHB30 accomplish?

As a TRB research committee, what can we accomplish?

· Influence the future operations of highly automated vehicles by prioritizing selected technical and societal challenges/opportunities, and defining research projects that will support informed investments and policies.

· Support good scholarship with the development of Research Needs Statements

· Inform the broader community by organizing meetings that engage across sectors on issues related to travel safety, traffic efficiency, accessibility and inclusion, ethics, workforce impact, and environmental sustainability

What do we seek for the future?

· Safe integration of highly automated vehicles that improve traffic throughput, personal mobility and accessibility, environmental sustainability, and travel safety for all road users.

What tools does TRB offer for our committee work?

· Workshops, webinars, and symposia, like AVS

· Calls for papers for the annual meeting

· Calls for posters for AVS

· Research Needs Statements, which feed NCHRP and graduate student theses

· TRB publication: The Circular

· New AHB30 task groups to accomplish any of the above, with a clear sunset date