SIP-adus Workshop 2016

Speakers List

  • Opening Session
  • Regional Activities and FOTs
  • Dynamic Map
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Security
  • SIP-adus Report Session
  • Impact Assessment
  • Next Generation Transport
  • Human Factors

    Welcome speech

  • Yosuke Tsuruho

    Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy
    Japan

    • Keynote speaker

  • Anne Berner

    Finnish Government
    Ministry of Transport and Communications
    Minister
    Finland

    Ms. Anne Berner was appointed as Minister of Transport and Communications of Finland in May 2015. In the government, she is also responsible for matters related to Nordic cooperation.
    She is a first-term MP and has worked at Vallila Interior, a family business, since 1986. She holds a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration.
    As Minister, Ms. Anne Berner has actively promoted Mobility as a Service concept and the creation of innovative, customer-oriented transport services. She has been a key actor in the development of world-class ecosystems of intelligent transport systems and services and automated driving in Finland. Ms. Anne Berner has also been actively enhancing the use of data and　digitalization to enable new businesses and she has supported the creation of the unique 5G test network in Finland.

  • Nicholas M. Hill

    Embassy of United States Tokyo Japan
    Economic and Scientific Affairs
    Minister Counselor
    USA

    A member of the Senior Foreign Service, Nicholas M. Hill is Minister Counselor for Economic and Science Affairs.  Prior to his assignment in Tokyo, he served for 18 months as Deputy Chief of Mission and 18 months as Charge d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 2012-2015.
    Mr. Hill served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia between 2008-2011. Prior to that he served as the Chief of Trade Policy at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. During his 30 year career as a Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Hill has worked overseas at U.S. missions in Belgrade, Budapest, Montreal, Sapporo, and Zagreb, as well as at the United Nations in New York and at the State Department in Washington, D.C.
    Mr. Hill holds a B.A. in History and Economics from Bowdoin College, a Masters in International Relations from George Washington University, and a Masters in Security Studies from the National War College in Washington, D.C.

  • Ludger Rogge

    European Commission
    DG Research & Innovation
    Research Programme Officer
    Belgium

    Ludger Rogge is Research Programme Officer at the European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation in Brussels/Belgium. He works in the Sustainable Surface Transport Unit and is since 2015 in charge of the EU research programme on Automated Road Transport. Previously he worked on the preparation of a European large-scale initiative on Rail Research (Shift2Rail) and on the European Green Vehicles Initiative, which is a Public Private Partnership for research and development on zero emission, safe and efficient road vehicles.
    Before joining the European Commission he worked for an German Consultancy Company where he was responsible for the management and implementation of several European research projects related to Urban Transport and Sustainable Development.
    Ludger Rogge has an engineer’s degree in town and transport planning and has a post-graduate master's degree in environmental sciences. He studied in Dortmund/Germany, Birmingham/England and Grenoble/France.

  • Friedemann Bruehl

    Japan Automobile Importers Association
    Vice Chairman
    Germany

    Born in Germany (1948).
    Graduate the University of Darmstadt, Doctor Engineer (1983).
    Lecturer in Traffic Engineering at the Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo (1983-1986).
    Start automobile industry career in Daimler-Benz Japan Co., Ltd (1986- Research & Technology Office), and work for DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany (1991- Region Asia & Alliances), DaimlerChrysler Japan Co. Ltd. (2003- General Manager of Technology Compliance), Mercedes-Benz Japan Co., Ltd (2007- General Manager of Technology Compliance).
    Since 2012, join Japan Automobile Importers Association (JAIA) as Vice-Chairman.

  • Edwin Nas

    Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, Netherlands
    Directorate for Roads and Traffic Safety Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport
    Dep. Projectleader Selfdriving Vehicles The Netherlands and Rapporteur to the European Commission on Connected and Automated Driving
    The Netherlands

    Edwin Nas is the dep. Projectleader Selfdriving vehicles of The Netherlands and has worked for years in the area of Automated Driving and a working career in innovation and change management in mobility and aviation. He is member of the UN-ECE working party on Automated Driving dealing with the Vienna and Geneva Convention and is currently also working on a guidance document for the global treaties. Edwin is also rapporteur for the European Commission on Connected and Automated Driving (GEAR2030). During the Dutch EU-presidency this year he was responsible for The Experience, where all EU transportministers were driven in highly automated vehicles on the public roads in and through Amsterdam.

  • Chris Heffer

    British Embassy, Tokyo
    Department for International Trade
    Director of Trade and Investment
    UK

    Chris Heffer is the Director for Trade and Investment in the British Embassy in Tokyo, appointed in September 2015. He is responsible for supporting UK companies to export to Japan and for attracting inward investment to the UK. Before that, he worked in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) for two years, heading up Growth Policy, where he led projects to improve the UK’s science skills, make the UK a better place to do business, and support disruptive businesses. Prior to that, he was a Senior Civil Servant at the Department of Health for six years, in the Strategy Unit, heading up the Customer Insight Unit and as Head of Drugs and Alcohol policy.
    Before joining the Civil Service in 2007, he was a Senior Manager in the Strategy Practice of Deloitte Consulting, including spending two years working for Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting in Tokyo. He worked across a range of sectors, and worked in Germany, France and Japan. He graduated from Oxford University in 1996 with a Masters in Engineering, Economics and Management and was a sponsored Engineer for Ford Motor Company at that time. He also did a Diploma in Modern Japanese at SOAS in 1999.

  • Kazuo Kyuma

    Council for Science,Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office
    Executive Member
    Japan

    Kazuo Kyuma received BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees all in electronic engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Japan, in 1972, 1974 and 1977, respectively. He joined Mitsubishi Electric Corp. in 1977, where he invented and developed artificial retina devices in the present Advanced Technology R&D Center (ATC), and then moved up to various management positions. In 2003, he was promoted as the General Manager of the ATC. He then became Executive Officer responsible for corporate Research and Development in 2006, Senior Executive Officer responsible for Semiconductor & Device Business in 2010, Executive Vice President in 2011, Executive Corporate Senior Advisor in 2012. Since March 2013, he has become Executive Member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.
    He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Optical Society of America (OSA), Japanese Society of Applied Physics, Japan Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), and the Laser Society of Japan.

  • Seigo Kuzumaki

    SIP-adus Program Director/TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION
    R&D and Engineering Management Div.
    Chief Safety Technology Officer Secretary
    Japan

    From 2011, I'm a Chief Safety Technology Officer Secretary, work in safety technology planning group of TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION. My role is strengthening vehicle safety performance in TOYOTA.
    I received "Special award of appreciation from U.S. Government in ESV 2007.
    From 2016, I'm appointed to a Program Director of SIP Automated driving systems.
    (SIP; Strategic Innovation Promtion program)

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    Moderator

  • Hajime Amano

    SIP-adus/ITS Japan
    President and CEO
    Japan

    Mr. Amano joined Toyota Motor Corporation in 1982. He started his career as a factory automation engineer, developing industrial robots and operation management systems for manufacturing and logistics. Then he expanded his areas covering transportation.
    He participated in pioneering Electronic Road Pricing demonstration project in Singapore from 1993 to 1995 as a project manager of a consortium. Since then, he has been involved in a variety of ITS projects both in Japan and overseas.
    He has been a member of the International Program Committee of ITS World Congress since 2002 and also a member of the Board of Directors since 2006.
    He assumed the position of President and CEO of ITS Japan in 2009. He has also been the Secretary General of ITS Asia-Pacific since 2009.

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  • Alvaro Arrue

    IDIADA
    Connected and automated driving
    Project Manager
    Spain

    Project manager at the Electronics department in Applus IDIADA, Álvaro Arrúe holds an MsC in Telecommunications Engineering and an MsC in ICT in mobile networks by University of Zaragoza. Álvaro Arrúe has developed his career close to R&D projects and Innovation activities. He is responsible in IDIADA for connected and automated driving projects and is actively involved in several International working groups and task forces.

  • lain Forbes

    Department for Transport
    Head of the Centre for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles
    UK

    Iain Forbes is the head of the UK Government's Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, a policy unit based jointly in the Department for Transport and the Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy. The Centre aims to help ensure that the UK remains a world leader in developing and testing connected and autonomous vehicles. Prior to joining CCAV Iain worked in No10 as a Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, covering issues including transport and the devolved administrations. He has previously worked in both the Department for Transport and the Home Office, advising on innovation, science and technology, security policy and environmental strategy.

  • Jan Hellaker

    Drive Sweden
    Program Director
    Sweden

    Mr. Jan Hellaker is the Program Director of Drive Sweden, a national strategic program launched by the Swedish government to coordinate efforts on vehicle automation at the system level.
    Prior to joining Lindholmen Science Park which is the host organization for Drive Sweden, Mr. Hellaker spent 25+ years in advanced vehicle research within the Volvo Group, most recently as the VP of Transport Solutions & Services. He was also the founder and first CEO of WirelessCar, a leading telematics service provider.
    Mr. Hellaker started his career with Ericsson, and earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology.

  • Jens Langenberg

    Volkswagen Group
    Driver Assistance and Integrated Safety
    Project Lead Automated Driving
    Germany

    - 2010-2013: Phd Volkswagen Group Research in the fields of "Design, simulation and evaluation of ADAS"
    - since 2014: European funded project AdaptIVe, leading subproject "Automation in Highway Scenarios"
    - since 2015: leading Volkswagen Group Research internal projects related automated and autonomous driving

  • Masato Minakata

    SIP-adus/TOYOTA Motor Corporation
    R&D and Engineering Management Div.
    Project Manager
    Japan

    Member of International Corporation WG, SIP-adus
    The secretary of FOT planning TF, SIP-adus.

  • Ludger Rogge

    European Commission
    DG Research & Innovation
    Research Programme Officer
    Belgium

    Ludger Rogge is Research Programme Officer at the European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation in Brussels/Belgium. He works in the Sustainable Surface Transport Unit and is since 2015 in charge of the EU research programme on Automated Road Transport. Previously he worked on the preparation of a European large-scale initiative on Rail Research (Shift2Rail) and on the European Green Vehicles Initiative, which is a Public Private Partnership for research and development on zero emission, safe and efficient road vehicles.
    Before joining the European Commission he worked for an German Consultancy Company where he was responsible for the management and implementation of several European research projects related to Urban Transport and Sustainable Development.
    Ludger Rogge has an engineer’s degree in town and transport planning and has a post-graduate master's degree in environmental sciences. He studied in Dortmund/Germany, Birmingham/England and Grenoble/France.

  • C. Y. David Yang

    AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
    Executive Director
    USA

    Dr. David Yang is the new Executive Director of AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety where he oversees the day-to-day operations of the Foundation and leads a group of researchers to carry out various transportation safety studies. Previously, Dr. Yang was the Human Factors Team Leader with U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Safety R&D. Dr. Yang has authored/co-authored close to fifty journal articles, conference papers, and government reports on subjects related to transportation safety, operations, planning, and Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is the Chair for Transportation Research Board’s Users Performance Section (AND00). Dr. Yang also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology.

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    Last Updated:4 November 2016

    Moderator

  • Maxime Flament

    ERTICO – ITS Europe
    Connectivity & Automation
    Head of Department
    Belgium

    Dr. Maxime Flament joined ERTICO-ITS Europe in 2003. He is Head of Department for Connectivity and Automation and leading contributor to many European activities on Road Safety, Connected Vehicles, Automated Driving, large scale Field Operational Tests, and Digital Mapping. He is European Chair of the Trilateral EU-US-Japan WG on Automation in Road Transport. Maxime holds a Ph.D. in Wireless Communication from Chalmers Technical University, Sweden.

    • Speaker

  • Carl Kenneth Andersen

    Federal Highway Administration U.S. Department of Transportation
    FHWA Office of Research, Development, and Technology
    Connected Vehicle Program Manager
    USA

    Carl Andersen is the Connected Vehicle Program Manager for the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, providing overall coordination of FHWA efforts to develop Vehicle-to-Infrastructure systems, including enabling technologies, safety, mobility and environmental applications, and policies to stimulate and support deployment of the systems. Carl has a primary responsibility to insure development of dynamic maps and digital infrastructure that will support connected and automated vehicles.
    Carl earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Marine Science from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and a Master’s Degree in Physics from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey.

  • Jim Herbst

    Ygomi
    Chief Data Architect
    USA

    Mr. Herbst has almost thirty years experience in digital mapping for the automotive industry. He joined NAVTEQ (now HERE) in 1987, where lead the data model definition, technology development for database systems, and oversaw the creation of the most successful automotive map in North America and Europe.
    Currently Mr. Herbst works for Ygomi, LLC, where he is leading the design of a new database that is being created especially for use by vehicle controls systems.

  • Tsutomu Nakajima

    Dynamic Map Planning Co., Ltd.
    President
    Japan

    April 1975, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation joined.
    In April 2002 the company, General Manager,Space Solution Systems Development Division.
    April 2009 Satellite Positioning Research and Application Center (SPAC) Executive Director.

  • Ahmed Nasr

    HERE
    ITS & Business Development
    Head of Industry & Government EU
    Belgium

    Ahmed Nasr is the Head of Industry & Government Relations EU for the IoT group at HERE, in addition he is managing HERE’s activities within the European Commission programes H2020 and CEF and is based in Brussels. He joined HERE back in 2008 and since then he held several positions in the company and has a solid Business Development background. Ahmed is actively involved in several industrial and governmental EU activities in the field of ITS such as collaborations with several EU Road Transport Public Authorities, the European Commission activities, iMobility Forum, ERTICO platforms, ADASIS Forum, and several other EU associations. He is currently a member of the ERTICO Strategy Committee.
    Prior to joining HERE, he held several academic positions at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) across several departments for 10 years where he conducted several academic degrees and was a member of the teaching staff and coordinating GIS courses for international post graduate students. He started his career at the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation in Egypt as a design Engineer and a staff member of the Water Management Research Institute.
    Ahmed is graduated from Cairo University as a Civil Engineer and has a previous experience in Cartography, GIS, Remote Sensing and Water Resources Management mainly in the domain of spatial planning and R&D projects.

  • Ryota Shirato

    SIP-adus/Nissan Motor Company Ltd.
    Mobility Services Laboratory, Research Division
    Manager
    Japan

    He received Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990, 1992 respectively.
    He joined Nissan Motor Company in 1992, and have been engaged in the research field of image processing, vehicle dynamics, active safety, electric propulsion, research planning and automated driving technologies.
    He is participating 'SIP-adus' since 2014 and in charge of leading dynamic map technology.

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    Last Updated:4 November 2016

    Moderator/Speaker

  • Vincent Blervaque

    BLERVAQUE Sprl
    Managing Director
    Belgium

    Consultancy in ITS and innovation in transport for safer, smarter and cleaner transport including research, innovation, piloting and deployment activities, business and strategy development, international cooperation and organisation of events. Current activities are mainly focussing on supporting C-ITS (connected vehicles) and automated driving pilots in Europe in close cooperation with industry sectors, public sector (European Commission, Ministry of Transport, cities) and research. Member as independent expert of the C-ITS Deployment Platform established by European Commission (DG MOVE) since November 2014.

    • Speaker

  • Frank Foersterling

    Continental Automotive GmbH
    Sales&Portfolio Innovations Interior Electronics Solutions
    Germany

    Completed a degree in mathematics at the State University of Kharkov, Ukraine.In 1990 Dr. Försterling joined Siemens Communications.For nearly 15 years he held various positions as head of R&D teams for telecommunication networks,In January 2005, Dr. Försterling moved to Continental:Major areas of work: Infotainment, Connected Vehicle, ITS solutions, V2X, Highly Automated Driving, electronic Horizon, Cloud based solutions for AutomotiveDr. Försterling represents Continental within the ERTICO Supervisory Board and the ERTICO Strategy Board.

  • Mikko Koskue

    Finpro / Ministry of Economy of Finland
    Program Director
    Finland

    Mikko Koskue is the Program Director of Intelligent Vehicle and Mobility Solutions -Growth Program at Finpro. The government funded program focuses on the digitalization/connectivity of vehicles and traffic as well as on new mobility services. Mr. Koskue has 15 years of working experience in international automotive business. Last eight years he has been working in national projects focusing on automotive and mobility industry development on a global scale. Previously, he has lived and worked 17 years outside of Finland, in Germany and Italy, five years at Daimler AG (Mercedes) in Stuttgart, Germany.

  • Hideaki Nanba

    DENSO CORPORATION
    Corporate R&D Div. 1
    Project Director
    Japan

    Mr. NANBA is the project director of DENSO CORPORATION and he is an ITS expert based on the wireless technology, being more than 30 years experiences from automobile computerization to ITS system.
    He is the coordinator of Development of VtoV, VtoI Communication technology toward the Automated Driving Systems in Japanese Government Project "SIP".

  • Norifumi Ogawa

    SIP-adus/Mazda Motor Corporation
    Technical Research Department
    Staff Manager
    Japan

    Mr. Norifumi Ogawa joined Mazda Motor Corporation in 1984 and had been working in the Electronics development department for Multimedia and Navigation engineering. In 2005 he had been dispatched to Mazda Motor Europa, R&D center as deputy general manager and had been responsible for vehicle research. In 2009, he returned to Mazda Motor corporation and managed Advanced Driver Assistance System engineering in the Vehicle system development department. Since 2015, he has been working for ITS research in the Technical Research department of Mazda Motor Corporation Tokyo HQ.

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    Last Updated:4 November 2016

    Moderator

  • Satoru Taniguchi

    SIP-adus/Toyota Info Technology Center Co., Ltd.
    President & CEO
    Japan

    Mr. Satoru Taniguchi has been serving as President and CEO of Toyota InfoTechnology Center in both Japan and the US since 2015. He brings to the Center a wealth of experience at Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan where he was responsible for a variety of important areas such as the development of electronics control system for engine management, air bag control and body electronics as a General Manager. He also assumed responsibilities for the evaluation engineering and vehicle planning at Toyota. One of Satoru’s notable achievements is the design of electronics/electric platform architecture for Toyota vehicles. It allows the scalable electronics system development, and reduces the cost and weight remarkably. It supports and contributes to Toyota’s next generation vehicle’s design as TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture). Satoru also has spent several years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, leading a group of electronics.

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  • Hiroshi Hashimoto

    Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
    Department 4, Integrated Control System Development Division Automobile R&D Center
    Chief Engineer
    Japan

  • Kosuke Ito

    Connected Consumer Device Security Council
    Secretary General
    Japan

    Kosuke Ito received MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University in 1993, and joined Canon Inc. in 1993, belonged to the strategic planning of worldwide R&D and the new business development. From 2001 to 2003, he involved in IPv6 promotion activity at IPv6 Promotion Council as a researcher of SFC Research Institute of Keio University, dispatched from Canon Inc. In 2005, he joined IRI Ubiteq, Inc. (now Ubiteq, Inc.), developed Energy management and controlling system and service for SOHO, and also provided the consulting and research services in embedded device (IoT) security. Since 2014, he involved in establishing CCDS Council as Secretary General to promote "Security by Design" in IoT systems.

  • Tsutomu Matsumoto

    Yokohama National University
    Faculty of Environment and Informtion Sciences & Institute of Advanced Sciences
    Professor
    Japan

    Tsutomu Matsumoto is a professor of the Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University and directing the Research Unit for Information and Physical Security at the Institute of Advanced Sciences. He received Doctor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1986. Starting from Cryptography in the early 80’s, he has opened up the field of security measuring for logical and physical security mechanisms. Currently he is interested in research and education of Embedded Security Systems such as Smartcards, Network Appliances, Mobile Terminals, In-vehicle Networks, Biometrics, and Artifact-metrics. He is serving as a program officer of the JSPS Research Center for Science Systems, the chair of Japanese National Body for ISO/TC68 (Financial Services), and a core member of the Cryptography Research and Evaluation Committees (CRYPTREC). He was a director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and the chair of the IEICE Technical Committee on Information Security and served as an associate member of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ). He received the IEICE Achievement Award, the DoCoMo Mobile Science Award, the Culture of Information Security Award, the MEXT Prize for Science and Technology, and the Fuji Sankei Business Eye Award.

  • Michael E. Parris JP

    SBD(Secured by Design Ltd)
    Secure Car Division
    Head of Division
    UK

    Mike Parris is the Head of SBD’s Secure Car Division with over 30 years of experience in a variety of technical, management and consulting roles in Europe, Asia and North America. He is a Justice of the Peace, a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
    For more than two decades, SBD has responded to the need for targeted expertise in the technologies that are changing the direction of the automotive industry as world-leading automotive technology specialists. SBD has global interests covering Europe, North America, China and Japan. SBD’s clients include most of the world’s vehicle manufacturers and their Tier 1 suppliers.
    In his leadership role Mike advises vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers on mechanical, electronic and cyber security strategies, policies, best practices and design guidelines and is a regular contributor to international cyber security events and seminars. He is responsible for leading the division which helps vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers to fully understand the market requirements and design criteria they must meet. He is responsible for delivering cybersecurity and anti-theft services including strategic planning, design support, penetration testing, countermeasure evaluation, market intelligence, competitor benchmarking and training.

  • Jonathan Petit

    Security Innovation
    Principal Scientist
    USA

    Dr. Petit is a Principal Scientist for Security Innovation, Inc. He is in charge of leading projects in security and privacy of automated and connected vehicles. He has conducted extensive research in detecting security vulnerabilities in automotive systems. He published the first work on potential cyber attacks on automated vehicles and has supported communications security design and cybersecurity analysis for light vehicles through OEM and NHTSA-sponsored projects. Previously, he was a Research Fellow in the Computer Security Group at University College Cork, Ireland. From 2011 to 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, where he coordinated the European funded FP7 PRESERVE project. He received his PhD in 2011 from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France.

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    Speaker

  • Integration of Advanced Surface Transport Performance

    1.SIP-adus and ART; why ART, How advanced?

    Takashi Oguchi,
    SIP-adus/The University of Tokyo

    2.Research on automatic controllability for ART

    Akihiro Yamanashi,
    Advanced Smart Mobility LTD.

    3.A research for improvement of quick transportability, time reliability and safety of Advanced Rapid Transit

    Daisuke Oshima,
    Pacific Consultants Co., Ltd.

    Development of roadside units for cooperative I2V

    1.Research for advanced Traffic Signal Prediction Systems

    2.Research for the advancement of DSSS, Driving Safety Support Systems, which utilize ITS radio communication

    Yuko Sano,
    SIP-adus/Director for ITS Commissioner General’s Secretariat National Police Agency

    Evaluation of GNSS for the Realization of the Autonomous car

    1.Survey on basic evaluation for effective utilization of satellite positioning technology

    Mikihiro Hosoi,
    Aisan Technology Co., Ltd.

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    Moderator

  • Takashi Oguchi

    SIP-adus/The University of Tokyo
    Institute of Industrial Science
    Professor
    Japan

    He is a professor in Traffic Management & Control and working as a member of Advanced Mobility Research Center in Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Before he joined current position in 2011, he was a professor in Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU) where he worked for more than 15 years. He worked in Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. before moving to TMU in 1995 after he acquired a Ph D. degree in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1993. He has been also assigned as VIsiting Professors in EPFL, Univ. of Phllipines and National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies in Japan, and has duty in education for Department of Civil Engineering in Graduate School of Engineering with additional positions in Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the University of Tokyo. His major research fields are Traffic Operation Evaluation, Traffic Behavior Analysis, Advanced Mobility System Development, and so forth. He served as the Chair of International Program Committee of ITS World Congress 2013 Tokyo, and got several awards including the MLIT Award of the Industry, Academia and Government Cooperation Contribution in September 2014.

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  • Felix Fahrenkrog

    BMW AG
    Germany

    Felix Fahrenkrog studied mechanical engineering with the focus on automotive engineering at RWTH Aachen University. From 2009 to 2016 he has been employed as a Scientific Engineer in the ADAS Department of automotive engineering institute of the RWTH Aachen University (ika). Since 2016 he is working in the effectiveness calculation and accident research department of BMW AG. He holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from RWTH Aachen University.

  • Hiroaki Miyoshi

    Doshisha University
    Graduate School of Policy and Management
    Professor
    Japan

    Hiroaki Miyoshi is the Director-general of ITEC at Doshisha University and the Professor at Graduate School of Policy and Management at Doshisha University. He had worked at a major private think tank company for ten years, conducting researches and making policy recommendations on a broad range of issues as a senior researcher, before joining Doshisha University in 2003. He took over the responsibility of director-general of ITEC from the 2016 fiscal year and has set the Institute’s purpose to pursuing a society that responds to new technologies, by positioning public policy related to new technology as the Institute’s new focus of research, while bringing researchers together in the field of science and technology, such as information engineering and energy engineering, with researchers in the field of social sciences and humanities. (http://www.itec.doshisha-u.jp/message_stand.html)
    His research interests include public economics and transport economics. His recent publications include Have Japanese Firms Changed?: The Lost Decade (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, co-edited with Y. Nakata), Knowledge Asset Management and Organizational Performance (Hakuto-Shobo Publishing Company, 2009, co-edited with Y. Shozugawa, in Japanese), Technological Innovation in the Automotive Industry and Economic Welfare (Hakuto-Shobo Publishing Company, 2008, co-edited with M. Tanishita, in Japanese).

  • Daisuke Oshima

    Pacific Consultants Co., Ltd.
    Transportation Planning
    Japan

    Mr. Oshima is a senior scientist for Department of Transportation Planning of Pacific Consultants Co., Ltd. He joined the company in 2007 and has conducted several projects in improvement of traffic flow, environmental impact assessment of automobile, evaluation of road project and introduction of ITS to developing countries. He is in charge of the impact assessment of automated driving systems on CO2 emissions and the development of Public Transportation Priority System for Advanced Rapid Transit (ART) under SIP-adus.

  • Deepa Rangarajan

    SBD(Secured by Design Ltd)
    UK

    Deepa graduated from the University of Leeds with a Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering. Since 2013, she has been leading research within the Autonomous Car divison of SBD and currently manages as well as supports many consultancy projects advising clients on ADAS strategies.

  • Scott Smith

    U.S. Department of Transportation
    Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
    Operations Research Analyst
    USA

    Scott Smith is a senior operations research analyst with 25 years of experience in applying technology to improve transportation operations and safety across all modes. In addition to automation, other recent Volpe Center work in surface transportation has included support to the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) on advanced travel models, the assessment of safety benefits of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) deployments, an examination of the potential impact of Intelligent Transportation Systems on regional planning models, and the development of several traffic assignment and simulation models. He is co-chair of the Impact Assessment subgroup of the Trilateral (EU-US-JPN) Automation in Road Transportation Working Group.
    Dr. Smith holds Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) certifications. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Project Management Institute and the Transportation Planning Applications Committee of the Transportation Research Board. He holds a doctorate in Civil Engineering from MIT.

  • Nobuyuki Uchida

    SIP-adus/Japan Automobile Research Institute
    Safety Research Devision
    Manager
    Japan

    Nobuyuki Uchida was born in Japan, in 1968. He received the M.S. degrees in experimental psychology from Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in risk engineering from the University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, in 2014.
    Since 1994, he has been a researcher with the Japan Automobile Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan. His research interest include the understanding of accident causation mechanisms and simulation of the common accident scenarios, for developing better preventive measures.

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    Moderator

  • Steven E. Shladover

    University of California, Berkeley
    California PATH Program
    Program Manager, Mobility
    USA

    Dr. Steven Shladover has been doing research on vehicle automation since 1973. He is the Program Manager for Mobility at the University of California PATH Program, where he leads research projects on connected and automated vehicles, including technology development, evaluation in simulation, and development of policy. After receiving his Sc.D. at MIT, he worked for eleven years in private industry before joining PATH. He chairs the TRB Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation and leads the U.S. delegation to ISO TC204/WG14, developing standards for vehicle/roadway warning and control systems.

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  • Adriano Alessandrini

    Università di Firenze
    DICeA - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale
    Professor
    Italy

    Adriano Alessandrini is associate professor of Transport Science and Economics at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Florence. Mechanical engineer since 1998 (the old style Italian Laurea equivalent to B.Sc.+M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in energy technologies since 2003, Adriano moved to Florence after 17 years researching at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" where he helped creating the Excellence Centre for Transport and Logistics.
    Expert in innovative transport systems and in environmental impact of transport, his main research fields, he has been participating and conducting several tenths of national and internationally funded research projects.
    From September 2012 to August 2016, he coordinated the CityMobil2 project a major European Commission funded initiative that demonstrated Automated Road Transport Systems on the roads of 7 European cities carrying more than 60 thousand passengers.

  • Masayuki Kawamoto

    SIP-adus/University of Tsukuba
    Professor
    Japan

    After 33 years experience in TOYOTA as an engineer/researcher of Electronic Control & Information Systems for Vehicle safety and environment, I started my new career as a University Professor from last year.
    My research interests include Automation in Public Transport, First/Last mile mobility and Mobility society systems.
    I joined SIP-adus member from 2014 and co-chair of Next Generation Transport WG from 2015.

  • Elizabeth Machek

    U.S. Department of Transportation
    Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
    Community Planner
    USA

    Elizabeth (Eli) Machek is a Community Planner in the Technology Innovation and Policy Division of the USDOT Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology. Eli joined the Volpe Center in 2003 and has experience in transportation planning and policy analysis, with applications in areas including automation, alternative transportation, parking management, accessibility, and intelligent transportation systems. Currently she manages development of an automation research plan for the Federal Transit Administration and for a concept of operations for Universal Automated Community Transport. She also supports the ITS JPO’s Automation Program and international exchange activities.
    Eli is fluent in Japanese and was selected as a member of the 14th class of Maureen and Mike Mansfield Fellows, spending a year embedded in the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism; local government offices; and Tokyo Metro. Ms. Machek holds a Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Alan Ming Huat Quek

    Land Transport Authority Singapore
    Intelligent Transport Systems Development Division
    Senior Manager, Cooperative and Quality ITS
    Singapore

    An engineer by training. He has spent about 7 years in the private sector and has been with the Land Transport Authority of Singapore for more than 11 years now. He is currently a Senior Manager overseeing a team in LTA on the implementation of self-driving vehicles program and connected vehicles technology trials. He also plan on traffic sensors deployment and conducting traffic data analysis to improve the quality of data collection and information dissemination. He is concurrently serving as the Secretary of ITS Singapore and is part of the organising committee for the 2019 ITS World Congress in Singapore.

  • Christian Rousseau

    RENAULT SAS
    Corporate Strategy and Plan Division
    Strategic Expertise Executive Leader
    France

    Since the 1st January 2013, Christian Rousseau is Executive Expert Leader of the Corporate Strategic Expertise Area "Mobility & Transport Systems" in the Renault Corporate Strategy, Plan & Business Development Division. So he is managing a transversal internal network of Experts and Specialists in charge to propose corporate strategy and plan in order to meet customers mobility needs and transportation evolution. He is also Vice Chair of the Ertico ITS Europe Supervisory Board , Chair of the Ertico Strategy Committee , and member of different organization such as the European ITS Advisory Committee, the EU C-ITS Platform, the Car2Car Communication Consortium Steering Committee, the EU 5G Action Plan, the ITS Working Group of the European Council for Automotive Research,....Christian Rousseau has been previously in charge of the Product and Services compliance with transport policy and mobility needs as Transport policy director at the General Secretary from 2007 till 2012.Before, he had different assignments. In the field of Automotive Electronics and Automation, he has been in charge of Engine Control Systems research, advanced studies and engineering for 10 years, Electronic Systems research including ADAS, telematics and ITS functionalities for ten more years, and IEEE skills and expertise corporate development for 4 years. In the worldwide After Sales division and then in the Corporate Quality Division , he has been in charge of after sales concerns and counter measures management, customer care and warranty cost accounting and reduction for 6 other years.

  • Yoshihiro Suda

    The University of Tokyo
    Institute of Industrial Science/Director of ITS Center
    Professor
    Japan

    Dr. Yoshihiro Suda is Professor and Director of Advanced Mobility Research Center (ITS Center) and Chiba Experiment Station, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo. He graduated from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 1982 and Graduate School in 1987, and he got Doctor Degree of Engineering. After working at Hosei University and Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, he has been Professor of The University of Tokyo from 2000. His major research fields are automotive and rail vehicle system dynamics and control, Intelligent Transport System and Human-Machine Interface. He is board member of ITS Japan and Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan. He also worked as members of government committee and academic society for automated driving system, vehicle and transport technologies.

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    Moderator/Speaker

  • Satoshi Kitazaki

    SIP-adus/National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Automotive Human Factors Research Center
    Director
    Japan

    I received my Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree of engineering from Kyoto University, Japan in 1983 and 1985 respectively, and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Southampton, UK in 1995. I had been working for Nissan Motor as a human factors engineer from 1985 till 2012. My research and development in Nissan included ride comfort, car sickness, seating ergonomics, fatigued driving, human machine interfaces, and driver support systems. Between 2012 and 2015, I was a professor in Neurology, University of Iowa, US where I conducted research for safety of older drivers and drivers with medical problems, and also human factors in automated driving. I have been working in AIST as the first Director of Automotive Human Factors Research Center since April 1st 2015. The vision of our Research Center is to establish human-centered methodologies to design vehicles to be safe, comfortable and enjoyable for all drivers. We conduct research in three main fields, support of older drivers, human factors of automated driving, and driving pleasure. Our core competencies are integrative approaches for understanding drivers using behavioral, neurological and physiological measures. I had been also leading SIP HMI Task Force in which potential human factor problems in automated driving were identified and prioritized.

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  • Myra Blanco

    Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
    Center for Public Policy, Partnerships, and Outreach
    Center Director
    USA

    Dr. Myra Blanco leads the Center for Public Policy, Partnerships, and Outreach at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI). In this role, she focuses on providing research to ensure that state and federal policies are based on relevant data, developing partnerships to assist in the development of new systems, and enhancing VTTI’s research areas and sponsorship diversity. Dr. Blanco works with stakeholders whose interests are affected by governmental decisions on federal, state, local, or international levels in the development and implementation of automated vehicle systems, and ensures that VTTI research results are provided in a timely fashion to those who can benefit. In addition, Dr. Blanco serves as core faculty member for the School of Biomedical and Engineering Sciences at Virginia Tech.

  • Makoto Itoh

    University of Tsukuba
    Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems
    Professor
    Japan

    Makoto Itoh is a professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems at the University of Tsukuba. He received his PhD degree in engineering from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 1999. He was a research associate at the University of Electro-Communications from 1998 to 2002. Since 2002, he has been working for the University of Tsukuba. He has been working on human factors issues in automated systems. In particular, his research interests include trust in automation, human-machine interaction and cooperation. He has published more than 60 journal papers and 90 international conference papers. He has several experiences of international collaboration with leading researchers in human factors, such as Prof. Thomas Sheridan, Prof. Neville Moray, Prof. Dick de Waard. From 2014 to 2015, he was the Chair of Human Factors Technical Committee in the Japanese Society of Automobile Engineers. Currently he is serving as a co-chair of shared control technical committee in IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and serving as a member of TC9.2 Social Impact of Automation in International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He has just joined as a member of Trilateral Human Factors Sub-Working Group between EU, US and Japan.

  • Emma Johansson

    Volvo Group Trucks Technology
    Driver Environment and Human Factors
    Human Factors Specialist
    Sweden

    Emma has been involved in research activities at GTT ATR concerning different topics such as accident investigations, field operational tests evaluating the current ADAS on market, distraction due to in-vehicle systems, drowsiness and related countermeasures, design of (semi-)automated systems etc. Projects have been national and EU funded as well as internal Volvo projects. Emma has been the project manager for the Human Factors oriented sub projects in interactIVe and AdaptIVe dealing with the human vehicle interaction when designing semi-automated systems as well as managing a project within the China-Sweden Research Centre for Traffic Safety established between AB Volvo, Volvo Cars, Chalmers, Tongji University and RIOH. Emma is currently co-chairing the Trilateral Human Factors group which involves work on automation.

  • Daniel V. McGehee

    University of Iowa
    National Advanced Driving Simulator
    Professor/Director
    USA

    Dr. Daniel V. McGehee is director of the National Advanced Driving Simulator and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Emergency Medicine, and Public Health.
    For over 25 years Dr. McGehee has done research in driver performance and distraction and has developed numerous advanced driver assistance systems and post-crash technologies that prevent or reduce the severity of crashes. He has a keen interest in education and policy implementation of connected and automated vehicle safety technologies. In his capacity as director, he leads a group of faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students in a vigorous interdisciplinary human factors and automotive safety research program that is funded by US DOT, NHTSA, FHWA, NIH, Iowa DOT, foundations and industry. Dr. McGehee has led over $30 million in research.

  • Natasha Merat

    University of Leeds
    Institute for Transport Studies
    Research Group Leader Human Factors and Safety
    UK

    Professor Merat is an experimental psychologist and has been working in ITS since 2002. Her main research interests are in understanding the interaction of car drivers with new technologies, both in and out of the vehicle. She applies this interest to studying factors such as driver distraction and driver impairment and more recently she has been studying the human factors implications of highly automated ("driverless") vehicles. She also studies how pedestrians and cyclists interact with these cars. She uses the University of Leeds Driving Simulator as her main research tool.
    Natasha has been leader of the Human Factors and Safety group at ITS since 2008, managing the strategic direction of this research group, and she was Director of the University’s Transport Systems Hub between 2011 and 2015, where her main task was to create a better link between academia and industry through secondments and shared R&D activities. She has been Principal Investigator or Project Manager to a number of projects on studying human factors and driver behaviour, funded by UK research councils, the European Commission, Highways England and the Department for Transport. Prof Merat has also been guest editor of two journal series publications in recent years (Human Factors Journal 2012, and Transportation Research Part F, 2014),bringing together the latest results of studies from around the globe on how vehicle automation may affect driver behaviour and performance.
    Prof Merat is Chair of the TRB tri-lateral sub-committee on Human factors in road vehicle automation, and an editorial board member of the European Transport Research Review and the newly established International Journal of Driving Science.

  • Chris Monk

    U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    Chief, Human Factors
    USA

    Chris Monk, PhD, is the Chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Human Factors/Engineering Integration Division, and recent Acting Chief of the NHTSA Electronic Systems Safety Division. He is responsible for developing, planning, conducting, and coordinating NHTSA’s research program pertaining to the human factors of advanced safety and driver information systems, automated vehicles, driver distraction and impairment, and the safe application of advanced technologies. He is a recognized international authority on driver distraction and driver-vehicle interactions, and is currently the co-chair of Human Factors Working Group under the trilateral agreement between the United States, the European Commission, and Japan to examine critical issues related to Intelligent Transportation Systems and automated vehicles.

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