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Federal Highway Administration National Dialogue on Highway Automation: November 14-15, 2018 Infrastructure Design and Safety Workshop Summary

Appendix B: Workshop Agenda

Day 1: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Time
(CT)		 Agenda Item Name
12:30 PM Registration & Sign-In No Value
1:00 PM Welcome & Introduction Al Alonzi - Division Administrator, FHWA - Texas Division
1:05 PM Opening Remarks Darran Anderson - Director of Strategy and Innovation, Texas Department of Transportation
1:15 PM National Dialogue Overview Michael Griffith - Director, Office of Safety Technologies, FHWA
1:30 PM Small Group Session 1:
Safe Integration of Automated Vehicles
  1. What can stakeholders do to assess and support safety as a priority when incorporating Automated Vehicles (AV) into the roadway and highway systems?
  2. What safety challenges could be encountered by vulnerable road users, pedestrians, bicyclists, roadway workers, and emergency responders when sharing the road with AVs?
  3. How could existing roadway safety evaluation and safety planning tools be changed to address AVs? For example, how could crash modification factors be affected by the introduction of AVs?
2:50 PM Small Group Session 1 Report Out All Participants
3:30 PM Break No Value
3:45 PM Collaboration Corner
  1. Modernizing Infrastructure for AVs: Updating standards and manuals
  2. FHWA AV Research Showcase: Highlighting FHWA research activities
  3. Roadway Safety Challenges for AVs: Interacting safely with the roadway infrastructure
  4. Workforce and Organizational Development: Preparing State and local agencies
  5. Terminology: Building our lexicon around highway automation
  6. Parking Lot: Questions and comments that do not cleanly fit at any of the other posts
5:00 PM Wrap Up John Corbin - Office of Transportation Management (HOTM), Connected/Automated Vehicles and Emerging Technologies Team, FHWA
5:30 PM End of Day 1 No Value


Day 2: Thursday, October 25, 2018
Time (CT) Agenda Item Name
7:30 AM Registration & Sign-In No Value
8:00 AM Kick-Off Day 2 Brian Fouch - Director, Office of Preconstruction, Construction and Pavements, FHWA
8:20 AM Small Group Session 2: Infrastructure and Automated Vehicles
  1. What are the long and short-term impacts of AVs on roadways and structural infrastructure? For example, what are impacts of truck platooning on bridges, pavement rutting, etc.?
  2. What are possible changes in structural and operational infrastructure design, and asset management practices to address AVs and how could they be implemented?
  3. How will these changes impact existing standards, manuals, and other national guidance for highway design, highway maintenance, and traffic control?
9:30 AM Small Group Session 2 Report Out All Participants
10:00 AM Break No Value
10:20 AM Preparing for Automated Vehicles: A Panel Discussion Moderated by James Pol - Technical Director of Safety R&D
Office of Safety R&D, FHWA
  • Darran Anderson - Director of Strategy and Innovation, Texas Department of Transportation
  • Ken Smith - Corporate Scientist, 3M Transportation Safety Division
  • Bill Duguay - Executive Vice President, J.D. Abrams; ARTBA Representative
  • Michael Morris - Director of Transportation, Department of Transportation, North Central Texas Council of Governments
11:30 AM Lunch (not included) No Value
1:00 PM Small Group Session 3: What's Next?
  1. Developing the Moonshot
  2. Near-Term vs. Long-Term Actions
  3. Federal, State, Local Roles
2:30 PM Wrap Up John Corbin - Office of Transportation Management (HOTM), Connected/Automated Vehicles and Emerging Technologies Team, FHWA
3:00 PM End of Day 2 No Value
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