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7:00 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. - Friday, January 19th

Location: Vanderbilt Student Life Center - Ballroom C
310 25th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37240

MORNING SESSIONS

7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast and Networking

8:00 - 9:30 a.m. Setting the Stage: Vanderbilt University & Nashville Metro Aspirations

Speakers: Introduction
(Philippe Fauchet, Dean, School of Engineering and Padma Raghavan, Vice Provost for Research) 5 mins

9:30 - 11:45 a.m.

Panel: Social-Technological Engagements for Next Generation of Effective Mobility Solutions
Moderators: Abhishek Dubey, Craig Philips and Dan Work (Each Moderator will introduce one speaker)

9:30 - 10:05 a.m. Speaker #1 / Topic: Autonomous Vehicles

  • Keynote: Hani S. Mahmassani (Northwestern University) 30 mins
  • Q&A 5 mins

10:05 - 10:20 a.m. Break

10:20 - 10:55 a.m. Speaker #2 / Topic: Incentives

  • Keynote: Alexandre M. Bayen (Univ of California, Berkeley) 30 mins
  • Q&A 5 mins

10:55 - 11:30 a.m. Speaker #3 / Topic: Data Analytics and Multi-Modal Mobility

  • Keynote: Lillian Ratliff (Univ of Washington, Seattle) 30 mins
  • Q&A 5 mins

11:35 - 12:00 p.m. Panel Question Answer and Discussions
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Networking and Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

In afternoon sessions, the moderators will give a highlight of the problem and some thoughts to structure the idea. The audience will be divided into groups. They will highlight the key SWOT in the focused sessions. The moderators will combine the discussions and present at the end of the sessions.

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Focused Session #1: Incentives

  • Moderators: Alex Bayen, Vanderbilt administration, Metro Nashville

Questions:

  1. What are effective economic and non-economic (non-financial) incentives that can increase ridership in public transportation and multimodal options?
    1. Examples from other cities around the world - can these apply to Nashville?
    2. What infrastructure is needed to support effective economic and non-economic incentives to increase ridership in public transportation with multi-modal options?
  2. How do you increase participation of people into the next generation mobility as a service platform?
    1. How do you incorporate payment across modes into a single multi-modal platform?
    2. What are the social considerations for fairness of the system?
  3. Tradeoff between openness of the data analytics and the need for privacy-preserving participation concerns.

2:00 - 2:15 p.m. Break

2:15 - 3:15 p.m. Focused Session #2: Autonomous Vehicles

  • Moderator: Dan Work

Questions:

  1. How can we enhance transportation corridors in the context of next generation vehicle technologies?

    1. What kind of AVs are likely to be most successful: individual cars, shared vans, buses? (What will be the evolving models around vehicle ownership)?

    2. What kind of data collection and processing infrastructure is required to support autonomous vehicles?

    3. Where would it make the most sense to conduct AV pilots in Nashville? How can we use the shared AVs to improve access to jobs, activities, and education

    4. Will AVs reduce or increase congestion, and under what circumstances?

  2. What are the legal and policy challenges around autonomous vehicles, and how do we address them?

    1. Do policies around AV, e.g., shared ridership or the use of shared vans support sustainability efforts?

    2. What security considerations arise when deeply integrating autonomous vehicles in the community?

3:15 - 3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Focused Session #3: Socially Responsible Mobility

  • Moderator: Abhishek Dubey

Questions:

  1. How do we use technology/smart mobility/to make our city services more people-oriented rather than auto-oriented?
  2. What historical and real time (or near real time) information and analytics are needed to support a multimodal mobility culture?
    1. Are there known successful examples? Are there case studies where such efforts have failed?
  3. How do you handle the gap between the selfish optimal routing solutions and socially optimal routing solutions

    1. What level of intersection can be applied to use incentives to increase multi-modal adoption?

  4. Transportation on Demand (TOD)

    1. How is Transportation on Demand affected as population centers grow and shift as Nashville expands?
    2. How do you track and quantify the uncertainty of people engaging with the multi-modal high capacity/low impact transportation options?
    3. How can Transportation on Demand address the consequences of gentrification in the city, and its impact on mobility demands?

4:30 - 4:45 p.m. Break
4:45 - 5:15 p.m. Wrap-Up & Next Steps - Summarization of key discussions and lessons learned from the three sessions and discussion of the final reports.