Organizers
Yoram Shiftan, Prof., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Maren Outwater, RSG
Chandra Bhat, Prof., University of Texas at Austin
Giovanni Circella, Dr., University of California, Davis
Akimasa Fujiwara, Prof., University of Hiroshima
Sung Hoo Kim, PhD student, Georgia Tech,
Dalia Leven, Consulting Manager, AECOM
Zhenhong Lin, Senior R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Eric Miller, Prof., University of Toronto
Jeremy Raw, FHWA, jeremy.raw@dot.gov
Scott Smith, Operations Research Analyst, Volpe,
Kathrin Tellez, Fehrs and Peers
Session Description
We’ll bring together scholars, researchers, and industry professionals who are interested in the various travel behavior implications of level 4-5 AV. We’ll hear about and discuss how they will affect our lives, the way we travel, the amount we travel, how we conduct activities, choose where to live and work, etc... We’ll discuss new data collection methods and various methodologies to advance our understanding of AV impacts.
New for 2019, we’ll sit together and develop a research statement on selected topics to best advance the research on behavioral implications of AVs.
Goals/Objectives/Outputs
- Begin to reduce uncertainty regarding the potential impacts of automated vehicles and other transformational transportation technologies on people’s activity-travel behavior.
- Highlight empirical research that sheds light on behavioral phenomena that could determine the potential impacts of automated vehicles on activity-travel demand, vehicle ownership, and longer-term location choices in the future.
- Examine the implications of such studies, how they can be used to forecast and predict changes, and how they can be used to evaluate future policies for automated travel
- Discuss and develop data collection and estimation methodologies to better understand the behavioral implications of AVs.
- Develop a research statement on a selected interesting topic, to be submitted for funding.
Agenda
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Rationale and Goals for Session
Introduction to session, and attendee self-introductions
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Short Presentations of Empirical Research
- Facilitator: Giovanni Circella, University of California, Davis
Research Presentations (Presenter in bold):
Mona Asudegi, Heather Rose (FHWA)
Shadi Djavadian, Bilal Farooq, Rafael Vasquez (Ryerson University, Toronto)
Xia Jin (Florida International University)
Banri Yasuda, Makoto Chikaraishi, Akimasa Fujiwara, Diana Khan (Hiroshima University)
Sung Hoo Kim, Patricia Mokhtarian, Giovanni Circella (Georgia Tech)
Viktoriya Kolarova (DLR), Elisabetta Cherchi (Newcastle University), Barbara Lenz (DLR)
Gozde Ozonder, Francisco Calderón, Eric J. Miller (University of Toronto)
Ishant Sharma, Sabyasachee Mishra (The University of Memphis)
Denise Capasso da Silva, Sara Khoeini, Ram Pendyala (Arizona State University)
Kathrin Tellez (Fehr & Peers)
Krishnan Viswanathan, Kimon Proussaloglou (Cambridge Systematics), Thomas Hill (Florida DOT)
Shelly Etzioni (Technion), Eran Ben-Elia (Ben-Gurion University), Yoram Shiftan (Technion)
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM BREAK
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Breakout Work Groups
Breakout to three groups. Each group will explore developing a research statement for a single topic. Develop initial ideas for data collection, research methods, and identify interested parties to develop the research statement.
Facilitators:
- Chandra Bhat, University of Texas at Austin
- Xia Jin, Florida International University
- Dalia Leven, AECOM
Note-takers:
- Ghazaleh Azimi, Florida Internatinal University
- Sung Hoo Kim, Georgia Tech
- Alireza Rahimi, Florida International University
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM Conclusion
- Facilitator: Maren Outwater, RSG
Breakout groups report, key takeways, and next steps