The FoT Summit Program
Schedule Subject to Change
Each day’s formal program at the FoT Summit will start at 8:30 am. Please return to this page later for a detailed agenda. However, we request all attendees to arrive at the US DOT Headquarters an hour earlier due to security considerations and the long lines expected for entry into the building.
Note: The 2024 FoT Summit will offer two coffee breaks and a lunch on each of the three days of the program within the US DOT Headquarters. The Evening Networking Reception will occur at the end of the day on August 13, 2024. Therefore, attendees will be responsible for breakfast on all three days of the 2024 FoT Summit, and for dinner on August 14 and August 15, 2024.
Additional information about each UTC listed can be found here or here.
Please click on an UTC presentation link below to download the corresponding slide deck.
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Day 1 Program
Day 2 Program
Day 3 Program
The posters listed in the link below will be available for display and presentation throughout the day around the atrium within the US DOT HQ, where the FoT Summit will be held.
List of Posters
Day 1: August 13, 2024
| 07:00 am – 08:30 am | Check-in and Registration TSA-like protocols apply and long lines are expected. |
| 08:30 am – 09:15 am | Opening Session |
| Welcoming Remarks Dr. Randa Radwan, Senior Advisor on Safety and Mobility, OST-R, US DOT Dr. Firas Ibrahim, Director, Office of Research, Development and Technology, US DOT Christopher Coes, Acting Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy Keynote Dr. Robert Hampshire, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research &Technology and Chief Science Officer, US Department of Transportation | |
| A Vision for The Future of Transportation Virtual Remarks, Special Guest | |
| Summit Overview Caesar Singh, Director, US DOT University Grants Center Programs Prof. Raj Rajkumar, Chair, FoT Summit Steering Committee | |
| 09:15 am – 10:15 am | Mobility Session I Session Chair: Chandra Bhat, Director, Travel, Behavior Demand National UTC on Mobility |
| The Exciting Challenges in the Fast-Evolving U.S. Mobility Landscape Chandra Bhat, Travel Behavior and Demand National UTC on Mobility | |
| Data Dashboards for Behavioral and Wellbeing Insights: A Focus on Time, Travel, and Telework Irfan Batur, TOMNET Tier 1 UTC | |
| Trends in Travel Demand: Insights and Implications Steven Polzin, TOMNET UTC | |
| How is Work from Home Changing Transportation? Marlon Boarnet, Pacific Southwest Region UTC | |
| 10:15 am – 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am – 12:00 pm | Environment Session I Session Chair: Susan Handy, Director, NCST National UTC on Sustainability |
| Toward a Sustainable Transportation System Susan Handy, National Center for Sustainable Transportation | |
| Advancing Healthy Mobility through Interdisciplinary Research Joe Zietsman, Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health | |
| How Actionable Are Climate Action Plans? A Comprehensive Review and Case Study of Travel Lane Narrowing as a Climate and Safety Solution Shima Hamidi, Center for Climate-Smart Transportation | |
| How can transit-oriented communities be affordable and sustainable? Guang Tian, Center for Equitable Transit-Oriented Communities | |
| Innovative Practices to Mitigate Environmental Impacts of Transportation Ceki Halmen, Environmentally Responsible Transportation Center for Communities of Concern | |
| Building the Evidence Base to Support Policy Transformation Susan Handy, National Center for Sustainable Transportation | |
| 12:00 pm – 01:00 pm | Lunch Break and Poster Session BIL UTC Senior Research Officers’ Closed Meeting |
| 01:00 pm – 02:00 pm | Infrastructure Session I Session Chair: Judy Perkins, Director, NCIT National UTC on Infrastructure |
| FAST Act and BIL Act: High Impactful, Innovative, and Transformative Infrastructure Projects/Programs & Welcome to the National Center for Infrastructure Transformation + Part B Judy Perkins, National Center for Infrastructure Transformation | |
| Innovative Accelerated Solutions to Address Challenges Facing Our Nation’s Bridges Atorod Azizinamini, IBT/ABCUTC | |
| Lessons Learned with Heavy Highway Workforce Development Charles Gurganus, National Center for Infrastructure Transformation | |
| Proven FRP Composite Girder Alternative to Structural Steel William Davids, Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC) | |
| 02:00 pm – 03:00 pm | Cybersecurity Session I Session Chair: Ronnie Chowdhury, Director, TraCR National UTC on Cybersecurity |
| Cybersecurity and Resiliency of Transportation Systems and Infrastructure Ronnie Chowdhury, Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR) | |
| Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Securing Transportation Systems Bhavani Thuraisingham, Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR) | |
| Fortifying the Future: Building Blocks for Connected and Autonomous Transportation Cybersecurity Satish Ukkusuri, National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR) | |
| Resolving Legislative Gaps in Transportation Cybersecurity Trayce Hockstad, National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR) | |
| 03:00 pm – 03:15 pm | Coffee Break |
| 03:15 pm – 04:30 pm | Safety Session I Session Chair: Raj Rajkumar, Director, Safety21 National UTC |
| Challenges and Opportunities for Transportation Safety Raj Rajkumar, Safety21 National UTC on Promoting Safety | |
| Resilient Design of Bridges under Multiple Hazards Genda Chen, Mid-America Transportation Center | |
| Concrete Practices for Safe System Implementation Justin M. Owens, Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety | |
| Advances in On-Board Condition Monitoring for Railway Safety Constantine Tarawneh, University Transportation Center for Railway Safety (UTCRS) | |
| Improving Vulnerable Road User Safety via Mixed Research Methods Michael Knodler, Region 1 New England Regional Transportation Center | |
| Safety of Long-Span Bridges Vulnerable to Large Container Ship Anil Agrawal, Region 2 SEMPACT University Transportation Center | |
| 04:30 pm – 05:30 pm | Stakeholder Roundtable Panel I Moderator: Ben Levine, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology Director, US DOT |
| Dr. Chris Atkinson, Deputy Director, ARPA-I | |
| Kathy Dedrick, Staff Director, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure | |
| Dave Huft, Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Manager, South Dakota DOT | |
| Shaun Kildare, Senior Director of Research, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety | |
| Shari Shapiro, Lime, Head of Global Policy | |
| 05:30 pm – 05:35 pm | Day’s Summary – Randa Radwan Reception Logistics – Karen Lightman, Executive Director of Safety21 National UTC and FoT Summit Events Committee Chair |
| 05:35 pm | Adjourn for Day 1 at US DOT HQ |
| 05:45 pm | Networking Reception at Dacha Beer Garden at Navy Yard |
Day 2: August 14, 2024
| 07:30 am – 08:30 am | Check-in and Registration TSA-like protocols apply and long lines are expected |
| 08:30 am – 08:35 am | Day 1 Recap Dr. Randa Radwan, Senior Advisor on Safety and Mobility, OST-R, US DOT |
| 08:35 am – 09:30 am | FoT Panel #1: Modal Administrations’ Executives Moderator: Dr. Robert Hampshire, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology and Chief Science Officer, US Department of Transportation |
| Shailen Bhatt, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) | |
| Jack Kammerer, Executive Director, Maritime Administration (MARAD) | |
| Vinn White, Acting Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) | |
| Jennifer Mitchell, Deputy Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) | |
| Veronica Vanterpool, Acting Administrator, Federal Transit Administration (FTA) | |
| Sophie Shulman, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) | |
| Jessica Sypniewski, Deputy Assistant Administrator for NextGen | |
| 09:30 am – 10:30 am | Infrastructure Session II Session Chair: Patrick Szary, Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation & National Center for Infrastructure Transformation |
| Understanding RC Deck Performance through Accelerated Testing John Braley, Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) | |
| Use of Lidar and Thermal Images for Bridge Deck Inspection Kwanghee Won, National Center for Transportation Infrastructure Durability and Life-Extension | |
| Automated Bridge Inspection and Maintenance Genda Chen, INSPIRE UTC | |
| Implementation of a Novel Adaptive Prestressing System in Railroad Concrete Crossties Bassem Andrawes, Transportation Infrastructure Precast Innovation Center (TRANS-IPIC) | |
| 10:30 am – 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am – 11:45 am | Safety Session II Session Chair: Henry Liu, Director, CCAT Region 5 UTC |
| Safety Assessment of Autonomous Vehicles Henry Liu, CCAT Regional UTC | |
| Safeguarding Roadside Workers: Innovations in Smart Work Zone Safety Michael Mollenhauer, Safety Through Disruption (Safe-D) National UTC | |
| Connected and Autonomous Vehicles for Road and Worker Safety Raj Rajkumar, Safety21 National UTC on Promoting Safety | |
| Investigating Vulnerable Road User Safety in Disadvantaged Communities-Application of the Safe Systems Approach Asad Khattak, University of Tenessee at Knoxville | |
| 11:45 am – 12:30 pm | Lunch Break and Poster Session |
| 12:30 am – 01:15 pm | Mobility Session II Session Chair: Chandra Bhat, Director, TBD National UTC on Mobility |
| How Complete Streets Affects Mode Choice: An AI Method for Level of Traffic Stress Classification Cinzia Cirillo, Center for Multi-Modal Mobility (CMMM) | |
| Cargo Consolidation, Routing, and Location Optimization to Reduce Traffic Congestion Mario Monsreal, National Institute for Congestion Reduction | |
| AI-Enabled Development and Deployment of Microtransit Autonomous Vehicles in Rural Environments Ali Karimoddini, Center for Regional and Rural Connected Communities (CR2C2) Region 4 UTC | |
| 01:15 pm – 02:00 pm | Cybersecurity Session II Session Chair: Ronnie Chowdhury, Director, TraCR National UTC on Cybersecurity |
| “I am Not Afraid of the GPS Jammer”: Exploiting Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial Signals for Navigation Zak Kassas, CARMEN+: Center for Automated Vehicles Research with Multimodal AssurEd Navigation | |
| Creating Security Approaches for Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) against Cyber Attack Jack (Yunpeng) Zhang, USDOT Tier-1 UTC Transportation Cybersecurity Center for Advanced Research and Education (CYBER-CARE) | |
| Resilient Positioning Navigation and Timing for Advanced Transportation Systems Boris Pervan, Center for Assured & Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems (CARNATIONS) | |
| 02:00 pm – 02:45 pm | Stakeholder Roundtable Panel II Moderator: Patricia, Hu, Director, US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics |
| Alison Premo Black, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, ARTBA | |
| Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, Chief of Staff, Governor of New Jersey | |
| Alan McQuinn, Professional Staff, Research and Technology Subcommittee, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology | |
| Dong Tan, President, IEEE Transportation Electrification Council | |
| Greg Winfree, Former Assistant Secretary of USDOT and Director, Texas A&M Transportation Institute | |
| 02:45 pm- 02:50 pm | Overview of Demos – Karen Lightman |
| 02:50 pm – 03:00 pm | Coffee Break continues through Indoor Demo and Posters period |
| 03:00 pm – 04:30 pm | Indoor Live Demonstrations & Poster/Desktop Display Session |
| 04:30 pm – 06:30 pm | Outdoor Live Demonstrations |
| 06:30 pm | Adjourn for Day 2 |
Day 3: August 15, 2024
| 07:30 am – 08:30 am | Check-in and Registration TSA-like security protocols apply and long lines are expected. |
| 08:30 am – 08:40 am | Day 2 Recap and Plenary Announcements Dr. Randa Radwan, Senior Advisor on Safety and Mobility, OST_R, US DOT |
| 08:40 am – 09:30 am | FoT Panel #2: Federal and Non-Profit Leaders Moderator: Laura Chace, CEO & President of ITS America |
| Michael Berube, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy | |
| Mung Chiang, President, Purdue University | |
| Susan Margulies, Assistant Director, Directorate for Engineering, National Science Foundation | |
| Roger Millar, Secretary of Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) | |
| 09:30 am – 10:30 am | Mobility Session III Session Chair: Kaan Ozbay, DIrector, C2SMART Center |
| Deployment of a Computer Vision-based Tool to Reduce Urban Congestion and Improve Airport Traffic Kaan Ozbay, C2SMARTER Center | |
| DataCity Smart Mobility Testing Ground Peter Jin, Region 2: Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) | |
| Traffic Signal Control under Connected Vehicle Environment: Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach Dr. Wei Fan, Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education (CAMMSE) | |
| Traffic Impacts and Solutions Following the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse Mansoureh Jeihani, SMARTER Center | |
| 10:30 am – 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am – 11:45 am | Infrastructure Session III Session Chair: Md Jobair Bin Alam, National Center for Infrastructure Transformation |
| Development of Titanium Alloy Bars that Strengthen and Preserve Transportation Infrastructure Christopher Higgins, Coastal Research and Education Actions for Transportation Equity (CREATE) Center | |
| Prediction and assessment of flood risk for rural and tribal communities Musharraf Zaman, Southern Plains Transportation Center | |
| Beyond Net-Zero Engineered Concrete Maria Konsta-Gdoutos, Tier 1 University Transportation Center For Durable and Resilient Transportation Infrastructure (DuRe-Transp) | |
| The Future of Low-Carbon Concrete Materials Jeffrey Bullard, IBT/ABCUTC | |
| 11:45 am – 12:45 pm | Poster Session and Lunch Break |
| 12:45 pm – 01:45 pm | Workforce Development Panel Discussion Moderator: Musharraf Zaman, Director, Southern Plains Transportation Center, University of Oklahoma |
| Marshall Rich, Dean, Applied Technology, Workforce, and Economic Development, Blinn College District | |
| Kamryn Carter, Graduate of Highway Construction Workforce Partnership Program, Quality Control Lab Technician, Knife River | |
| Jamaine Gibson, The Amalgamated Transit Union’s Director of Apprenticeships and Workforce Development | |
| Mansoureh Jeihani, Director, SMARTER Regional UTC, – Region 3, Morgan State University | |
| 01:45 pm – 02:30 pm | FoT Panel #3: Industry Moderator: Raj Rajkumar, Director, Safety21 National UTC |
| Greg Bowles, Head of Government Affairs, Joby Aviation | |
| Mauricio Peña, Chief Safety Officer, Waymo | |
| Nat Beuse, Vice President of Safety, Aurora | |
| 02:30 pm – 02:45 pm | Coffee Break |
| 02:45 pm – 03:15 pm | Closing Remarks and Next Steps |
| 03:15 pm – 03:30 pm | Photo session with US DOT Executives and UTC Directors including new UTCs and HBCUs |
| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | OST-R Closed-Door Meeting of UTC Directors Caesar Singh, Director, University Grants Program, OST-R, US DOT FoT Summit Organizing Committee and Advisors UTC Directors US Department of Transportation |
| 05:00 pm | FoT Summit adjourns |