Project: #358 Synthesis of Research Results and Technology Trends to Inform Federal, State, Regional and Local Policies for Smart Mobility of People and Goods Phase 4 Progress Report - Reporting Period Ending: Sept. 30, 2022 Principal Investigator: Stan Caldwell Status: Completed Start Date: July 1, 2021 End Date: June 30, 2022 Research Type: Applied Grant Type: Research Grant Program: FAST Act - Mobility National (2016 - 2022) Grant Cycle: 2021 Mobility UTC Progress Report (Last Updated: Sept. 30, 2022, 12:13 p.m.) % Project Completed to Date: 100 % Grant Award Expended: 100 % Match Expended & Document: 100 USDOT Requirements Accomplishments August 17, 2022 Dr. Joachim Eichhorn, Head of Transportation and Digital Infrastructure Section of the German Embassy visited the CMU campus and met with Stan Caldwell to learn about Traffic21 and the Mobility21 UTC efforts and discuss potential areas of collaboration with German universities and companies. July 27, 2022 Mobility21 Advisory Council member, PennDOT Secretary Yassmin Gramian welcomed State Transportation Innovation Council members, including Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell, to Harrisburg for the first in person meeting since the pandemic and to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pennsylvania's award winning STIC. May 20, 2022 Stan Caldwell provided a tour of CMU, as well as industry automated vehicle research and development sites, to officials from the Allegheny County Airport Authority. Caldwell discussed his Mobility21 research on emerging transportation technology and industry trends, along with its economic impact on the Pittsburgh region. April 26, 2022 CMU's Spring 2022 Engineering and Public Policy Senior Project Course was focused on transit in the City of Pittsburgh and culminated with a poster session highlighting five group projects. Mobility21 researcher Destenie Nock was co-instructor of the course and UTC researchers Corey Harper and Stan Caldwell served as advisors and provided feedback throughout the course and at the poster session. A briefing was held on Phase 1 Results of the <a href="https://www.spcregion.org/connected/">Southwestern Pennsylvania Connected - Equitable Broadband Access Plan for local government officials and foundations who funded the plan. Mobility21 UTC researchers Jon Peha and Stan Caldwell presented, highlighting the CMU faculty and student contributions to the planning process. April 6, 2022 A delegation from the City of Dortmund, Germany visited Pittsburgh and CMU, hosted by the Scott Energy Institute, to learn about our work with technology in energy, transportation, food systems, etc. Stan Caldwell presented an overview of Mobility21, and UTC researchers Ray Gastil. March 17, 2022 Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell attended a field hearing on pending highly automated vehicle legislation. The hearing was held at the Westmoreland County Community College Advanced Technology Center at RIDC Westmoreland. Stan had the opportunity to meet with state legislators, as well as labor and industry officials to discuss his UTC research on emerging transportation technology policy. September 26, 2022 Chris Hendrickson, faculty director of Traffic21 Institute and Mobility21 UTC researcher, participated in the first meeting of the ASCE International Conference on Transportation and Development</a>'s Advisory Committee. July 1, 2022 Traffic21 Director Chris Hendrickson authored an editorial for the American Society of Civil Engineers in the Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems titled "Deep Decarbonization and Transportation Engineering." June 2, 2022 Traffic21 Director Chris Hendrickson was a featured speaker during a plenary session at the International Conference on Transportation & Development titled “Envisioning the Future of Cities and Transportation” along with Paula Hammond, Senior Vice President and National Transportation Market Leader of WSP USA and Dr. Hani Mahmassani, William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation of Northwestern University. January 20, 2022 Mobility21 researcher Stan Caldwell presented an overview of the Traffic21/Heinz College Executive Education Course “Managing AI in Transportation” to 35 participants from New Jersey and Pennsylvania at the quarterly meeting of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) Transportation Operations Task Force Meeting. This is a quarterly meeting that DVRPC facilitates to bring their various transportation partners together that provides an opportunity for agencies to coordinate and share information regarding their TSMO Programs, and share information about new and innovative technologies or best practices. December 9, 2021 CMU Heinz College Masters of Information Systems Management Capstone students Shiyi Liu, Yanwen Peng. Jiaoying Mu, Kehan Li, Yilin Hua and Zhenyuan He made a final presentation of their capstone project developing an automated truck departure user interface. The client was Klara Oberhollenzer, Manager of Development Autonomous Truck Mission Control Product & Partnerships at Daimler Truck North America and the course advisor was Stan Caldwell, Executive Director, Mobility21 UTC. December 1, 2021 Mobility21 researcher Stan Caldwell joined Joby Aviation’s Max Fenkell in co-chairing the first Advanced Air Mobility Subcommittee of PennDOT’s new Unmanned Aerial Systems Task Force. The subcommittee is meeting to discuss potential initiatives to safely advance applications of this emerging technology in the Commonwealth. November 23, 2021 The 2021-2022 Group of Fellows from the Coro Center for Civic Leadership (Pittsburgh) conducted an “Established Nonprofit Sector Leaders Interview” with Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell to learn how transportation research, education and technology transfer initiatives from University Transportation Centers impact public policy. November 11, 2021 Chris Hendrickson, Director of the Traffic21 Institute and a Mobility21 UTC researcher, is part of a panel reviewing doctoral dissertation nominations for the Council of University Transportation Centers‘ Charles E. Wootan Memorial Award. October 21, 2021 Traffic21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell moderated a panel alongside Metro21 Executive Director Karen Lightman at the Inaugural Local Government Commission Symposium to discuss “Solving Real-World Problems through Collaboration and Innovation with Municipal and Equity Partners” and featured: • Kimberly Lucas, Acting Director, Department of Mobility & Infrastructure, City of Pittsburgh • Kelly Maurer, Director of Public Works, Cranberry Township View all of the presentations from the symposium here. http://www.lgc.state.pa.us/symposiumPres.cfm October 1, 2021 Traffic21 Director Chris Hendrickson has been re-appointed to the Transportation Research Board‘s Executive Committee for 2022-2025. The Executive Committee is the senior policy body of TRB. Impacts May 4, 2022 As part of the Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act, Congress directed the Federal Highway Administration to conduct a study of the impacts of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) in consultation with a defined expert panel. Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell was appointed to this panel as a representative from academia and participated in the initial panel discussion today focused on ADS impacts on the roadway infrastructure. April 28, 2022 The 100 Questions Initiative</a> seeks to map the world’s 100 most pressing, high-impact questions that could be answered if relevant datasets were leveraged in a responsible manner. This domain is focused on identifying the top 100 questions related to urban transportation and mobility. This work is essential due to the need to steer the use of data more purposefully to better inform decisions on urban development. The Development Bank of Latin America Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative, and the New Urban Mobility Alliance (NUMO) will collaborate in identifying priorities for the field by creating and sourcing a curated community of “bilinguals” from around the world. Mobility21 UTC Executive Director Stan Caldwell was selected as one of the bilinguals and participated in the first panel discussion and formulated questions related to his UTC research. December 21, 2021 Stan Caldwell applied his UTC research on emerging transportation technology policy in support of a year-long advisory round-table exploring “How COVID-19 Affects Major Trends and Forces Shaping The Future of Transportation” for Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Secretary Yassmin Gramian. CMU Heinz College Master of Public Policy and Management student Erick Shiring served as research assistant throughout the project to PennDOT Senior Policy Advisor and report lead Roger Cohen. Mobility21 UTC research Professor Megan Ryerson from the University of Pennsylvania also served on this round-table advisory group and applied her UTC research. Supported the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission's Regional Broadband Study be serving on the Stakeholder Advisory Committee and applying my UTC research in transportation policy, particularly equity, impacted by emerging broadband technology. From our years of AV policy research in cooperation with PennDOT and the state legislature, Traffic21/Mobility21 hosted the AV Policy event below. January 5, 2022 Traffic21 and Carnegie Mellon University welcomed Senator Wayne Langerholc, Jr. at Mill 19 to unveil SB 965, legislation that would permit AV companies to test vehicles meeting autonomy levels 3, 4 or 5 of SAE International’s J3016 parameters for automated driving systems. Also in attendance at the press conference were CMU President Farnam Jahanian, PennDOT Secretary Yassmin Gramian, Senator Jay Costa, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, and many others. Watch the full press conference here. https://www.senatorlangerholc.com/2022/01/05/langerholc-introduces-legislation-to-create-a-roadmap-for-highly-automated-vehicles/ Other December 28, 2021 Public transportation is one of the most critical aspects of our infrastructure, but it is also one of the most imperiled and underfunded. This episode looks at how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan’s historic investment in public transit and other targeted policymaking can build the transportation systems of the future, with guests and UTC researchers Stan Caldwell and Corey Harper, as well as Eric Goldwyn, and Anthony Foxx. Consequential is a Heinz College of Carnegie Mellon University podcast that looks at the human side of technological change and develops meaningful plans of action for policymakers, technologists and everyday people to build the kind of future that reduces inequality, improves quality of life and considers humanity. In its third season, Consequential will examine how AI and machine learning will impact research practices and data collection, as well as the development and dissemination of knowledge. Topics will include combatting disinformation, the ethics of crowdsourced research, and representation in open source software development. Hosted by Lauren Prastien and Eugene Leventhal. February 15, 2022 Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell received the CUTC – ARTBA Award for Administrative Leadership, which recognizes outstanding administrative leadership contributions to the transportation field by non-academic appointments. View the acceptance video here. February 11, 2022 Stan Caldwell was invited to join a Transportation Research Board National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) workshop for Project 20-126(01) Developing a Research Program for Programmatic Issues of Future System Performance. Stan applied his research in emerging transportation technology policy and industry trends to help develop research problem statements for the project. February 2, 2022 Traffic21/Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell received the Person of the Year Award from the Intelligent Transportation Society of Pennsylvania. Stan serves as a founding member of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Task Force with the vision of “safe and strategic integration of UAS technologies in Pennsylvania’s transportation system.” He also serves on the ITSA Broadband Deployment Task Force, the ITSA AV Safety Task Force, and is the chair of the ITSA Standing Committee on Emerging Technologies. 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