The Third Annual National Mobility Summit of US Department of Transportation University Transportation Centers
Innovating Mobility for All
April 15, 2021
11:00AM – 4:00PM
Featured Keynote Speaker:
Robert Hampshire, Acting Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
Robert Hampshire serves as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology. Hampshire was previously an associate professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He was also a research associate professor in both the U-M Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) and Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE).
Agenda
11:00 am Welcome, Introductions, & Overview of the Day
- Raj Rajkumar, Director, Mobility21 National UTC, Carnegie Mellon University
11:10 am Remarks from the UTC Program – watch recording here
- Caesar Singh, Director, USDOT Office of Research, Development & Technology
11:15 am Federal Representative Panel – watch recording here
Moderator, Shari Schaftlein, Director, Office of Human Environment at FHWA
- David Corman, Program Director, National Science Foundation, Cyber-Physical Systems, Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research, Smart and Connected Communities
- Prasad Gupte, Technology Manager, Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Office and the Energy Efficient Mobility Systems Program
- Scott Michael Robertson, PhD, Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy, Employment-Related Supports Team
- Stanley E. Young, PE, PhD, Advanced Transportation & Urban Scientist, Mobility Systems Team Lead, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
12:05 pm Break
12:15 pm Improving Mobility for All: Infrastructure and Opportunities Panel – watch recording here
Moderator, Carol Wright, Director of Easterseals Transportation Group and co-director of the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center
- Sheryl Gross-Glaser, President, SGG Consulting LLC and former Director, Community Transportation Association of America’s National Center for Applied Transit Technology (N-CATT)
- Ken McLeod, Policy Director at The League of American Bicyclists
- Thomas Weakley, Director of Operations of the Owner-Operator Independent Driver’s Association Foundation, Inc.
1:05 pm Break
1:15 pm Small Group Break-outs and Discussions – watch recording of discussion debrief here
Click here to read the summaries from all the discussions.
1. Redefining the role of the curb
- Jennifer Dill, Director of the National Institute for Transportation and Communities at Portland State University
- Cole Kopca, Assistant Director for Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium, USDOT University Transportation Center for Federal Region 10
2. Connected and autonomous vehicles
- Mansoreh Jeihani, Interim Director of the National Transportation Center and Urban Mobility and Equity Center at Morgan State University
3. Freight and goods movement, including deliveries (groceries, food)
- Victoria Deguzman, Associate Director, Education and Professional Development, Pacific Southwest Region (R9), University of Southern California
4. Public transportation & transportation network companies
- Shri Iyer, Manager Director of the C2SMART Transportation Center at New York University
5. Rural challenges
- David Kack, Director of the Small Urban, Rural and Tribal Center on Mobility at the Western Transportation Institute
- Jeremy Mattson, Small Urban, and Rural Center on Mobility, a program of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University
6. Active transportation – ped/bike, micromobility
- Hilary Nixon, Research Associate with the Mineta Transportation Institute
7. Future emergencies and transportation – lessons learned from COVID-19
- Kaan Ozbay, Professor & Director, C2SMART Transportation Center at New York University
2:15 pm Break
2:25 pm Keynote & Closing Remarks – watch recording here
Introduced by Raj Rajkumar, Director, Mobility21 National UTC, Carnegie Mellon University
Robert Hampshire, Acting Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
2:45 pm Poster Session – watch recording here
- Automated Vehicle Services for People with Disabilities – Involved Responsive Engineering (ASPIRE Center) – powerpoint
- Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility – powerpoint
- Connected Cities with Smart Transportation (C2SMART) – poster and powerpoint
- Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2) – video
- Freight Mobility Research Institute – poster and video about the institute
- Mineta Consortium for Transportation Mobility – poster and fact sheet
- Mobility21 – poster
- National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) – powerpoint
- Pacific Southwest Region – powerpoint
- PacTrans – poster and powerpoint
- Safety through Disruption (Safe-D) – poster and powerpoint
- Small Urban, Rural and Tribal Center on Mobility (SURTCOM) – poster
- Teaching Old Models New Tricks (TOMNET) – poster and powerpoint
- Transit-Serving Communities Optimally, Responsively, and Efficiently Center (T-SCORE) – poster and powerpoint
- Urban Mobility & Equity Center – video
4:00 pm Summit Adjourns
Photo Gallery
If you’re interested in learning more or signing up to attend, please reach out to Lisa Kay Schweyer at LKSchweyer@cmu.edu.
Also, check out the previous National Mobility Summit Recaps: