Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles

New Mobility, Automated Vehicles, and Real Estate
2024-07-25 | AZ
Thursday, July 25
10:30 a.m. PDT
Event Description
Throughout history, every transportation innovation has reshaped how we use land and develop property. Railroads birthed new towns and bustling commercial hubs like Chicago, while streetcars and mass transit led to the emergence of inner-ring suburbs. The automobile revolutionized personal mobility, fueling suburban sprawl, and air travel continues to transform long-distance travel and global trade.
Join us as real estate and academic experts share their firsthand experiences integrating new mobility solutions into buildings and campuses. They’ll offer insights into how transportation is poised to revolutionize real estate, with discussions on:

Parking: Rethinking design and quantity in the age of new mobility
Land Use: The growing importance of density and transit-oriented development (TOD)
Building & Campus Management: Strategies for incorporating integrated mobility solutions
Curb Accessibility: Adapting to the changing landscape of last-mile delivery and pickup/dropoff

Gain valuable insights into the evolving relationship between transportation and real estate, and discover strategies for thriving in this dynamic landscape.
Speakers

Mark Arizmendi, COE Steering Committee member and Founder and CEO of Northwestern Capital Partners, LLC
Terry Shook, Founding Partner and Principal of Shook Kelley engaged in a biotechnology campus being developed in Charlotte, N.C.
Nico Larco, Professor of Architecture and Environment, and Director Urbanism Next Center at University of Oregon
Jonah Susskind, Senior Research Associate at SWA.

Mobility COE: Workshop on Cities, New Mobility and Automated Vehicles
2024-10-03 08:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC
We are pleased to offer an online option for staff working on transportation issues and state and local government to join the Mobility COE Workshop in Washington, DC. We welcome your participation if you work for a city, county, state, MPO, transit agency, campus transportation department, or similar transportation authority.
The Mobility Center of Excellence is hosting an in-person roundtable for local government stakeholders to discuss how new mobility innovations are reshaping cities and how automated vehicles may reshape cities.
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The program will feature

a discussion with FHWA Acting Administrator Kristin White discussing the federal policy agenda and funding opportunities for new mobility and automated vehicles
An informative session led by NACTO on regulatory experiences with new mobility and micromobility, with speakers from Seattle, Austin, and Washington DC.
A session led by the Open Mobility Foundation on data communications between cities and connected, automated vehicles
Two facilitated, roundtable discussions on:

New Mobility & Micromobility Retrospective (10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT)
CAVs in Cities Prospective (1:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT)

When ADS Meets Traffic Rules
2024-10-24 | AZ
As Automated Driving Systems (ADS) increasingly integrate into our roadway networks, they face the complex challenge of adhering to traffic rules and regulations that vary from one jurisdiction to another across the United States. This webinar explores ideas for enabling ADS to comprehend and comply with this intricate legal landscape. We will discuss how to equip ADS with the ability to determine applicable traffic laws, the role of regulators in standardizing and facilitating compliance, strategies engineers use to validate adherence, and how Infrastructure Owners and Operators (IOOs) can manage and support these advanced systems. Join us to delve into collaborative approaches that ensure safe and lawful ADS operation amidst the diversity of regional traffic regulations.
Speakers:
Siddartha Khastgir, Head of Safe Autonomy at WMG, University of Warwick
Roxane Mukai, Operations Engineer, Maryland Transportation Authority
Sagar Behere, VP Customer Success & Safety, Foretellix
Kelly Smith, Lead Systems Engineer, Kodiak Robotics
Jiaqi Ma (Moderator), Mobility Center of Excellence

Mobility COE Info Session at TRB 2025
2025-01-06 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | AZ
Join the Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles team for an information session on the COE’s purpose and activities to date, research plan, and research projects.
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Mobility COE Reception at TRB 2025
2025-01-07 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Busboys and Poets, 450 K St NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
On Tuesday, January 7th, the Mobility Center of Excellence (“Mobility COE”) will convene for our first reception at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Space is limited and registration is required for attendance.

New Mobility and Automated Vehicles - A Research Roundtable with the Los Angeles Transportation Community
2025-04-15 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | AZ
The Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles invites representatives of Los Angeles County transportation agencies, cities, and mobility companies to a roundtable focused on new mobility and automated vehicles.
This roundtable has three goals:

Identify LA-specific local government and community needs for the deployment of new mobility and automated vehicles at scale to inform a roadmap for future deployments;
Explore how the research community can catalyze and support 1) deployment of automated vehicles, connected vehicles, and connected infrastructure and 2) cross-agency collaboration; and
Strengthening the Los Angeles new mobility and automated vehicles community of practice, supporting more regular communication and coordination between agencies, industry, and the research community.

The roundtable will feature guest speakers and facilitated conversations. A detailed agenda will be provided closer to the event.

Automated Transportation Symposium (ATS) 2025
2025-11-03 - 2025-11-06 | Marriott Phoenix Resort Tempe at The Buttes, 2000 W Westcourt Way, Tempe, AZ, 85282, United States
The Automated Transportation Symposium (formerly ARTS) is the leading global forum for advancing automated vehicle development at SAE Levels 4 and 5. Now under the leadership of SAE International, ATS brings together innovators from industry, government, and academia to address the most pressing technical, regulatory, and policy challenges shaping the future of automated mobility.
Over three days of dynamic plenaries, interactive workshops, poster sessions, and high-value networking, ATS delivers cutting-edge insights into the latest R&D breakthroughs, real-world deployment data, and evolving standards. The event places a strong emphasis on issues affecting U.S. and international transportation agencies, providing a platform for shaping the future of AV regulation and deployment strategies.
Building on over a decade of trusted programming, ATS continues to serve as a catalyst for cross-sector collaboration, informed dialogue, and global research alignment in the pursuit of safe and scalable AV solutions.
The Mobility COE will be part of the ATS 2025 program, where we will showcase several posters highlighting our projects, along with hosting a dedicated ancillary meeting focused on research conducted during Years 1–2. We invite you to join us for these important discussions! For more information about the ancillary meeting, please click this link.

Mobility COE Ancillary Meeting at ATS 2025
2025-11-03 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Marriott Phoenix Resort Tempe at The Buttes, 2000 W Westcourt Way, Tempe, AZ, 85282, United States
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.

TRB Annual Meeting 2026
2026-01-11 - 2026-01-15 | Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
TRB’s Annual Meeting attracts thousands of transportation professionals from around the world. The program covers all transportation modes, with sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions.

NACTO Designing Cities Conference 2026
2026-05-12 - 2026-05-15 | Hilton Minneapolis, 1001 S Marquette Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55403, United States
The annual NACTO Designing Cities Conference brings together over 1,000 people passionate about advancing the state of transportation in North American cities—engineers, planners, government agency leaders, elected officials, advocates, and other transportation professionals of all career levels.
Join us in Minneapolis in for Designing Cities 2026 next May! We’re already looking forward to reconvening the NACTO movement in partnership with our co-hosts, the City of Minneapolis.
