Organizers
Taylor Lochrane, FHWA
Chris Stanley, Leidos
Session Description
Assist FHWA in Enabling Automated Vehicles to Improve Transportation Operations. Cooperative automation will enable automated vehicles (AVs) to significantly improve transportation operations, mobility, and safety. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is developing an open source software (OSS) platform and collaborating with researchers, operators, public agencies, and the private sector to shape the future of transportation for the public good.
This session will enable participants to join FHWA in advancing the Cooperative Automation Research Mobility Applications (CARMA) Platform, which encourages collaborative research, testing and partnerships to support transportation efficiency and safety. This session will also provide the opportunity to learn about the launch of the CARMA Collaborative, a stakeholder teaming approach to accelerate cooperative automation research to implementation.
Goals/Objectives/Outputs
- Understand what cooperative automaton is and how it improves safety and mobility.
- Highlight the tools available to support cooperative automation.
- Learn how your organization can benefit from CARMA.
- Shape FHWA’s CARMA Program and the future of the transportation industry.
Agenda
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM What does it mean to be cooperative?
The session will kick off with a descriptive look at what it means to be cooperative in transportation, terminology, and how cooperative automation can improve the safety, efficiency, and mobility of the transportation system.
- Justin McNew, President and Founder, JMC Rota Inc.
- Keith Wilson, Director for Technical Programs, SAE International
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM USDOT and the CARMA Ecosystem
The newest inception of CARMA is now live on GitHub and open for collaborating. Created on a robot operating system (ROS), the unique CARMA Platform utilizes open source software that enables cooperative automated driving system (CADS) applications. Designed to be vehicle and technology agnostic, CARMA supports the research and development of CADS capabilities to improve transportation systems management and operations (TSMO).
- Brian Cronin, Director, FHWA Office of Operations R&D
- Kevin Dopart, Vehicle Safety & Automation Program Manager, USDOT ITS Joint Program Office
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM How Can CARMA Benefit Your Organization?
CARMA enables organizations and industry to participate in the development and adoption of cooperative automation. This session will provide examples on how CARMA has been designed to make AV research easier and facilitate the development of applications that benefit transportation operations, research organizations, and industry.
- Chris Stanley, Saxton Lab Program Manager, Leidos
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Breakout: How Would You Use CARMA?
This interactive portion of the session will allow and encourage attendees from all sectors of the transportation industry to provide input on how CARMA can benefit their organization, industry, and research. Discussions will be conducted on what data are useful to gather from vehicles, what are the best methods to go about mapping, and other solutions for CARMA technical capabilities.
- Taylor Lochrane, CARMA Program Manager, FHWA
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Break
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM TSMO Use Case Development
The CARMA Platform is developing new TSMO strategies while also identifying TSMO scenarios that would benefit from cooperative automated driving systems. Four use cases are in development: basic travel, traffic incident management (TIM), weather, and work zones.
- Govind Vadakpat, Research Transportation Specialist, FHWA Office of Operations R&D
- Sudhakar Nallamothu, CARMA Project Manager, Leidos
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM Breakout: TSMO Use Case Discussion
Using information provided during the TSMO Use Case Development presentation, brainstorming sessions will be conducted with guided questions. FHWA will explore feedback on how you, the audience, would use the CARMA Platform to shape the future development of the CARMA program.
- Taylor Lochrane, CARMA Program Manager, FHWA
- Chris Stanley, Saxton Lab Program Manager, Leidos
4:45 PM – 5:30 PM CARMA Collaborative and Public/Private Sector Teaming
How can you get involved in CARMA? The CARMA Collaborative is a growing community of CARMA users and prospective users invested in developing intelligent transportation solutions (ITS) and CADS to advance transportation efficiency and safety. The CARMA Collaborative evolved as a solution to bring together a diverse community of stakeholders interested in shaping the future of the transportation industry.
- Omar Ahmad, Deputy Director, National Advanced Driving Simulator, University of Iowa
- John Buszek, Vice President of Products and Services, AutonomouStuff
- Lev Pinelis, Director of Innovation, Transurban
- Jiaqi Ma, Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
- Sara Sargent, Engineering Project Manager, VSI Labs