Plenary Session 2

Manabu Umeda is a Project Researcher at Mobility Innovation Collaborative Research Organization, the University of Tokyo (UTmobI). He joined the University of Tokyo on November 2019. He was appointed as a Collaborative research coordinator in SIP-adus steering committee from Jan. 2020 to March 2023. He started his professional career as an automotive safety engineer in Nissan Motor Corporation in 1999, and worked for Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd. in 2006-2009.

Dr. Henriette Cornet is leading the Thematic Area of Automated Mobility at UITP (International Association of Public Transport) in Brussels, Belgium where she supervises discussions and activities linked with Connected and Cooperative Automated Mobility (CCAM). She is also leading the International Collaboration activities of the European-funded projects SHOW ‘Shared automation operating models for worldwide adoption’ and ULTIMO ‘Unlocking large-scale and passenger-centric automated mobility’, both worldwide initiatives on the deployment of shared fleets of Automated Vehicles. She graduated from the University of Technology of Troyes, France, as an Engineer in Material and Environmental Sciences in 2007. She received her doctoral degree from the Technical University of Munich in 2012. The topic of her PhD thesis was the development of a sustainability screening tool for decision-making assistance in the field of urban mobility. From 2011 to 2016, she worked as consultant for the automotive industry in Germany (BMW, Audi) within R&D projects about electromobility and alternative fuels. She was also involved as project manager in several European-funded projects about energy management. From 2017 to 2020, she worked in the research institute TUMCREATE in Singapore as Principal Investigator of the team ‘Design for Autonomous Mobility’. Her team investigated human-centric methods for design of Autonomous Vehicles for public transport in Singapore. Her expertise is in Automated Mobility, investigating through projects and international collaborations the benefits, limitations, and requirements of the technology from a multi-stakeholder perspective.

For more than two years, I have been working in the "Autonomous Driving" team of the Innovative Transport Concepts department at DB Regio Bus. As a public transport company, we want to use autonomous driving in combination with MaaS systems to build a new, more flexible form of public transport. In the past, I have worked on various German autonomous driving funding projects on the topics of: Integration of the vehicles into the existing public transport system, on-demand transport and user acceptance. Since October last year, I have been the Consortium Leader for the EU Horizon Europe project ULTIMO. In which the focus is on the economic viability of autonomous transport through the creation of standards, the integration of AV into MaaS and the operation of large vehicle fleets.

Anna Anund has a Phd in medicine from Karolinska Institute and is an Associate Professor in Traffic Medicine at Linköpings University. She works at VTI as a Research director for the Human factor department. Anna has a history in applied statistics and performs research on driver fatigue and traffic safety, but also on child safety especially in relation to school transportation and children in cars. Annas focus is also on applied research concerning design and evaluation of driver support systems, e.g. ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), IVIS (In-Vehicle Information System) and vehicles with automated functions, but also infrastructure countermeasures e.g. milled rumble strips. She is responsible for the Living lab Ride the future (www.Ridethefuture.se) with focus on sustainable mobility solutions in future cities. 
Participation and coordination of EU funded projects: Anna has been working in several EU projects like AWAKE, INSAFETY, SENSATION and Drive2thefuture. She is now involved in SHOW project, MEDIATOR and HEIDI project. She also worked as the coordinator of the 7th framework EU project SAFEWAY2SCHOOL (www.safeway2school-eu.org) and ADAS&ME(www.ADASandME.com). She is now working as the coordinator of PANACEA (Panacea – Fitness to drive (panacea-project.eu) an EU Horizon project.

William (Billy) Riggs, Ph.D., AICP, LEED AP is a global expert and thought leader in the areas of automation and future transportation, clean technology, urban development and city planning, municipal finance and sustainable. He is a professor and program director at the University of San Francisco School of Management. He has worked in venture capital and management consulting and been an advisor to multiple companies and start-ups on technology, engineering, smart mobility and urban development. This follows two decades of experience working as an urban planner, economist, and engineer. He has over 100 publications and has been featured in multiple global media outlets such as the Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Atlantic. Billy is the author of the books End of the Road: Reimagining the Street as the Heart of the City and Disruptive Transport: Driverless Cars, Transport Innovation and the Sustainable City of Tomorrow. Dr. Riggs has been a fellow with the National Science Foundation, sits on the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Policy and Law and the Committee on the Landscape and the Built Environment, and is a Trustee of Horicon School District.

Habib Shamskhou is President of Advanced Mobility Group and co-founder of the GoMentum Station Program in Northern California and the annual Redefining Mobility Summit conference. He brings 33 years of experience managing a wide variety of transportation projects. Habib is a recognized authority on 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.
His latest collaborations include technology facilitation and program management for two of Contra Costa Transportation Authority’s 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 include the Vehicle to Everything Signal Lab (V2X Signal Lab) and Dynamic Personal Micro Transit initiatives.
Habib has been involved in the implementation of the I5/I90/SR520 Active Traffic Management System (ATMS) Design Build project in Seattle, developing Corridor System Management Plans (CSMPs) for Caltrans, and executing several ITS SMART corridor and system integration projects in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, as well as ITS projects in Florida, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, and Oregon.

After receiving his BA in Economics from Sophia University in 2009, Yuki Saji joined SoftBank Mobile Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.).
While working in the sales department and contributing to various initiatives, in 2010, he became one of the first members of the “SoftBank Academia,” a program initiated by SoftBank Group’s Chairman, Masayoshi Son, to identify and nurture his successors.
In April 2016, Yuki Saji founded SB Drive Corp. (currently BOLDLY Inc.) and assumed the position of President and CEO, a role he continues to this day. Under his leadership, BOLDLY has achieved to start daily operation of autonomous vehicles in four locations in Japan. He is a leading figure in the industry, dedicated to realizing autonomous vehicle services nationwide, with the goal of achieving freedom of mobility.

Ayako Taniguchi is a Professor of Risk-Resilience Engineering at University of Tsukuba, Japan. Although she has a civil engineering background, she collaborates with researchers from various disciplines, including psychology, education, sociology, law, ethics, history and folklore. Her current research interest is to apply psychology to manage social dilemmas concerning urban and transport policy through inducing people’s attitude and behaviour modification, specifically, mobility management, social acceptance of new technologies, and traffic safety. She started studying the social acceptance of Autonomous Vehicle systems in 2015 and continues to work on NIMBY and ELSI issues related to AVs with a psychology and sociology-supported approach. She has organized a session on 'Social acceptance of AVs' at the annual Civil Engineering and Planning Research Conference since 2018.