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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nManabu Umeda is a project researcher at Mobility Innovation Collaborative Research Organization, the University of Tokyo (UTmobI). He is also appointed as a Collaborative research coordinator in Mobility Innovation Alliance Japan since Jan. 2024.
He has many years of experience in safety performance development at an automotive company, where he has played a key role in developing vehicle safety technologies, and holds extensive expertise and deep insight in the field of automotive safety.
Since he joined the University of Tokyo in November 2019, he has contributed to promoting international collaboration activities regarding automated driving research fields. He was appointed as a Collaborative research coordinator in SIP-adus (the Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), Automated Driving for Universal Services) steering committee in Japan from Jan. 2020 to March 2023. And he is currently working for SIP, Development of Smart Mobility Platform to promote international collaboration. He serves as an Advisory Board Member for several European research projects, including the CCAMbassador, SENSEI, and Roads4All.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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International Advisory Board Member, SIP \"Development of Smart Mobility Platform\", Japan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Asuka studied cultural anthropology of the Spanish-speaking world and urban planning at Sophia University, spending a period abroad at Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey in Mexico. There, she became captivated by Latin America's intersection of indigenous values and Western philosophy\u2014an experience that would define the trajectory of her career. CEO, President, Advanced Mobility Group, USA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Habib Shamskhou is CEO and President of Advanced Mobility Group and co-founder of the GoMentum Station Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Test Facility in Northern California. He brings 35 years of experience managing a wide variety of transportation innovative projects. Habib is a recognized authority on new mobility options, emerging advanced transportation and digital infrastructure technologies with expertise in technology facilitation, public-private partnerships, and program management of large-scale technology-based infrastructure projects. Full professor of Transport Modelling and Pro Vice Rector for Doctoral Affairs, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof Dr Ir Bart van Arem was appointed as full professor Transport Modelling at the department of Transport and Planning in 2009 and serves as Pro Vice Rector for Doctoral Affairs of TU Delft since 2021. He was head of the department Transport & Planning from 2010 till 2017 and served as director of the TU Delft Transport Institute from 2012-2021. Urban Mobility Tech Co.,Ltd. (MuvMi), Thailand<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tawit (Boom) Sangveraphunsiri is an urban mobility professional working to make car-free, livable cities a reality in Thailand and Southeast Asia. He leads the Operations team at MuvMi, a Bangkok-based demand-responsive transit company operating a fleet of 700+ shared electric vehicles that serves over 30,000 daily passengers. He worked on the data infrastructure behind the service \u2014 building dashboards and tracking systems to monitor driver utilization and performance, and streamlining agent workflows to help the fleet scale. That data-driven approach contributed to a roughly 30% improvement in driver working-hour efficiency and an increase in passengers served per driver-hour. He has worked with his team on a strategic plan to improve fleet performance, helping move the operation from negative to positive gross profit within nine months, while supporting cross-functional efforts to automate and streamline processes across the company. He also contributes to data-driven transit strategy work with public agencies. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley, where his research focused on low-cost, flexible feeder transit for developing countries \u2014 work that continues to inform his approach to transit operations today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Session Overview Under the theme \u201cCo-creating Life-centric Mobility for Tomorrow,\u201d this session will explore t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"sitemap_hide":"","vkExUnit_sitemap":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"common","_exclude_from_list_pages":"","vkExUnit_childPageIndex":"","vkExUnit_pageList_ancestor":"","_lightning_design_setting":{"layout":"col-one-no-subsection"},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3397","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilityinnovationalliance.org\/enmobiweekjapan2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilityinnovationalliance.org\/enmobiweekjapan2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilityinnovationalliance.org\/enmobiweekjapan2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilityinnovationalliance.org\/enmobiweekjapan2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilityinnovationalliance.org\/enmobiweekjapan2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/mobilityinnovationalliance.org\/enmobiweekjapan2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5297,"href":"https:\/\/mobilityinnovationalliance.org\/enmobiweekjapan2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3397\/revisions\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilityinnovationalliance.org\/enmobiweekjapan2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mobilityinnovationalliance.org\/mobiweekjapan2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2_Asula_Ito-265x300.png\")
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She began her professional life at Nissan Motor's headquarters, overseeing the automotive supply chain across Latin America and gaining hands-on knowledge of the industry from factory floor to dealership. The Great East Japan Earthquake deepened her interest in public policy, leading her to earn a Master's in Diplomacy (Climate Change and Energy Policy) from a graduate school of the University of London. A speech she delivered at the United Nations during her studies opened the door to a role as an international civil servant at the OECD, where she coordinated cooperation between OECD and ASEAN countries.
She later moved to the International Transport Forum (ITF), the OECD's transport policy body covering road, sea, and air. There she moderated smart mobility discussions at the G20 Digital Economy meetings and authored numerous policy reports on autonomous driving, MaaS, road safety, and decarbonization.
At FIA headquarters, she was hired as the organization's only Japanese staff member, leading sustainability and diversity & inclusion initiatives across 252 member automobile clubs and federations worldwide\u2014driving change through motorsport, from sustainable F1 spectator experiences to Formula E's expansion across Asia.
She currently serves on the International Advisory Board for Japan's Cabinet Office SIP Smart Mobility Platform initiative, and practices Ohara-school ikebana, bringing its aesthetic of spatial harmony to mobility system design.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nHabib Shamskhou<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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His latest collaborations include technology facilitation and program management for two of Contra Costa Transportation Authority\u2019s federal grants from the Advanced Driving Systems (ADS) and Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment (ATCMTD) programs. The ADS program is collecting and analyzing data to support federal policy and rulemaking around ADS safety measures. The ATCMTD grant is developing a Mobility as a Service application to provide travelers with multimodal complete trip planning service. Recent developments at GoMentum Station AV proving ground include the Vehicle to Everything Signal Lab (V2X Signal Lab) and Dynamic Personal Micro Transit initiatives and demostration.
Habib has been international speaker on the subject of substantiable transportation, new mobility options, quantum computing impact on new era of next generation mobility, AI-agentic AV , digital transportation infrastructure. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nBart van Arem<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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As Pro Vice Rector for Doctoral Affairs of TU Delft, he is responsible for the appointment of supervisors and co-supervisors, the installation of doctoral committees and the processing of cum laude proposals and requests to obtain the ius promovendi. He is also responsible for adapting the PhD rules and regulations to possible changes in the Dutch Higher Education and Research Act. He is responsible for the proceedings during doctoral examinations and formally appoints the chairs of doctoral committees
His research focuses on analysing and modelling the implications of intelligent transportation systems, such as automated, electric and shared vehicles. Such implications may vary from changes in driving and travel behaviour, traffic flows in networks and modal change, road and IT infrastructure and the spatial design of urban regions. His research has a strong modelling and simulation component based on empirics wherever possible and always with users of the research in the back of his mind.
In 2026, he received a royal decoration for his contributions to science and society as Officer in the order of Oranje-Nassau.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nTawit (Boom) Sangveraphunsiri<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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