Getting from here to there – Strategic, tactical and operational issues related to deployment of ACES (Autonomous, Connected, Electric & Shared) mobility technologies

Distinguished Transport Lecture Series 2023 – Autonomous Vehicles Series     

 

TITLE    

Getting from here to there –     

Strategic, tactical and operational issues related to deployment of ACES (Autonomous, Connected, Electric & Shared) mobility technologies    

    

SPEAKER     

Prof. Hani S. Mahmassani    

Professor of Civil and Environmental and (by courtesy) Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Engineering    

William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation    

Northwestern University    

    

DATE AND TIME     

15 December 2023 (Friday) 19:00 – 20:00 (Hong Kong Time)    

    

VENUE     

CPD 3.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong    

    

ORGANISED BY     

Institute of Transport Studies, The University of Hong Kong     

    

ABSTRACT     

Various emerging technologies and supply business models are envisioned to bring potentially transformative changes to the urban mobility landscape. These technologies, ranging from Autonomous, Connected, Electric, Shared (ACES) technologies, to micromobility and urban air mobility using eVTOLS, create significant opportunities for improved and more equitable mobility. They also face challenges along their deployment pathway, and stress our existing modeling frameworks and methodologies. We discuss key challenges and pathways for addressing them.      
  

SPEAKER’S BIO     

Dr. Hani S. Mahmassani holds the William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation at Northwestern University, where he is Director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center.  Prior to Northwestern, he served on the faculties of the University of Maryland and the University of Texas at Austin. His research contributions include the areas of intelligent transportation systems, freight and logistics systems, multimodal systems modeling and optimization, pedestrian and crowd dynamics and management, traffic science, demand forecasting and travel behavior, and real-time operation of transportation and distribution systems. He is past editor-in-chief of Transportation Science, senior editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, founding (past) associate editor and current scientific board member of Transportation Research C: Emerging Technologies, Distinguished Advisory Board Member of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, and associate editor of Transportation Research Record. He is a past president of the Transportation Science Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, a past President of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research, and the Convenor of the ISTTT International Advisory Committee. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board, the Research and Technology Advisory Committee of the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration, and the Panama Canal Authority’s International Advisory Board.  He was the recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the American University of Beirut in 2006, the Intelligent Transportation Systems Outstanding Application Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2010, the Transportation Research Board (TRB)’s Thomas Deen Distinguished Lectureship in 2016, TRB’s Roy Crum Award for Distinguished Service in 2022, and a Distinguished Engineering Alum of Purdue in 2022. He was elected Emeritus member of TRB committees on Telecommunications and Travel Behavior (2006), Transportation Network Modeling (2007), and Traveler Behavior and Values (2008). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 “for contributions to modeling of intelligent transportation networks and to interdisciplinary collaboration in transportation engineering”. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in transportation systems and MS in transportation engineering from Purdue University.      

    

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG    

The Institute of Transport Studies, HKU was established in 2003. It is a university centre that seeks to identify research programmes as mission-oriented activities and not by traditional academic disciplines alone. As an exemplary interdisciplinary research group, the Institute is having 29 Institute Fellows, all being academic staff at the Professional level, from the Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Business and Economics, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, and Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine. Apart from hosting the Distinguished Transport Lecture series, international workshops and other seminars, the Institute has co-organized the International Conference on Smart Mobility and Logistics in Future Cities with the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics in Hong Kong and the Transport Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.     

Registration & Enquiries

For details please refer to the event website at https://www.institute-of-transport-studies.hku.hk/dtls.