The U.S. Department of Transportation has formed a committee to advise on plans and approaches for transportation innovation, which it said comprises 27 members who were selected across sectors, geographies, and areas of expertise.
What’s next: According to USDOT, the Transforming Transportation Advisory Committee (TTAC) will explore and consider issues related to:
- Pathways to safe, secure, equitable, environmentally friendly, and accessible deployments of emerging technologies.
- Integrated approaches to promote greater cross-modal integration of emerging technologies, in particular applications to deploy automation.
- Policies that encourage innovation to grow and support a safe and productive U.S. workforce and foster economic competitiveness and job quality.
- Approaches that encourage the secure exchange of transformative transportation data, including technologies and infrastructure, across the public and private sectors that can guide core policy decisions across DOT’s strategic goals.
- Ways the Department can identify and elevate cybersecurity solutions and protect privacy across transportation systems and infrastructure.
TTAC members are experts from academia, think tanks, the public sector, labor, and industry, covering topics such as automation, cybersecurity, safety, accessibility, law, government, entrepreneurship, privacy, and equity, USDOT reported on Dec. 29. They will serve two-year terms and may be reappointed; their committee positions are unpaid.