​Session 1: Connected and automated vehicles at the cross-roads to success

Today, all vehicle manufacturers offer cellular connectivity in their vehicles, either as standard equipment or as an option. Safety applications for vehicles, such as emergency call, are appearing as is the ability to connect to Internet information and entertainment. Communication between vehicles, to and from roadside infrastructure and with vulnerable road users has been tested and debated for twenty years. With the introduction of 5G, the time has come to decide whether to use a tried and true solution, IEEE 802.11p, that has been standardized for  more than a decade, or whether to move on to cellular technology V2X and its future evolution into 5G.

Moderator: Russell Shields, Chair, Ygomi [ Biography ]​

​Session 4: The deployment of automated mobility services

It was only a few years ago that the battle for space on city streets was between buses and private vehicles. Self-employed drivers working for companies like Uber, Lyft and Didi Chuxing began to change the competitive landscape as they made personal mobility both more available than buses and less expensive than owning a vehicle in a city. In the past few years, as cities have built more bicycle paths and provided incentives for using them—with standard cycles and electrified ones, as well as scooters—mass transit is struggling to keep ridership figures up and vehicle manufacturers are attempting to find their place in the quickly changing mobility market. Consumers have quickly by-passed attempts to deliver mobility as a service to demanding the ability to provide their own mobility when and where they need it. Rapidly evolving technologies, constant streams of new announcements and attempts to match new developments with public policy have created an extremely complex environment, especially for regulators. This session will explore how regulators who are in charge of the technical regulations and certification of vehicles are working on ensuring that automated and connected vehicles will provide better mobility for all, including the elderly and disabled, and what potential these solutions have to improve the livability of all places, large and small.

Moderator: Ian Yarnold, Head, International Vehicle Standards Division, Department for Transport, UK