Established through a cooperative agreement between the Federal Highway Administration and UCLA, the Mobility Center of Excellence (COE) has spent its first two years translating research questions into deployable insights for automated vehicle (AV) integration at scale. This session begins with a concise progress briefing that highlights new tools, policy briefs, and takeaways from COE research activities and stakeholder workshops in Los Angeles, Austin, Washington DC, and beyond. A series of project presentations then spotlight cutting‑edge work performed across various core COE thrusts, including land use and urban planning, engineering systems, and human-centric design. A distinguished panel of COE researchers, steering‑committee members, and external thought‑leaders will challenge the findings, probe unsolved technical and policy hurdles, and surface emerging research needs.