The Third Annual National Safety Summit 2021

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

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) 
• Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility 
• Connected Cities with Smart Transportation (C2SMART) 
• Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2) – video
• Freight Mobility Research Institute – video about the institute
• Mineta Consortium for Transportation Mobility 
• Mobility21 
• National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) 
• Pacific Southwest Region 
• PacTrans
• Safety through Disruption (Safe-D) 
• Small Urban, Rural and Tribal Center on Mobility (SURTCOM) 
• Teaching Old Models New Tricks (TOMNET) 
• Transit-Serving Communities Optimally, Responsively, and Efficiently Center (T-SCORE) 
• Urban Mobility & Equity Center 

4:00 pm   Summit Adjourns