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.
The following project topics will be discussed at the session:
- Stakeholder Engagement Campaign with LA and Austin
- Mobility Data Landscape: Review, Fusion, and Synthesis for Transportation Insights
- Quantifying safety impacts of V2X-enabled traffic systems (Phase 1)
- Developing a Safety-Centric Framework for the Integration of Autonomous Vehicles in Local Jurisdictions
- Optimizing urban mobility: A data-driven approach to strategic Mobility Hub placement
- Modeling and Simulation Testbeds: A Sandbox for Analysis of New Mobility Deployed at Scale
- Data for Autonomous Transportation Awareness (DATA)
Additional topics are pending and will be covered as part of the session discussion.