The promise of Connected and Automous Vehicles (CAVs) to benefit society through increased safety, improved operational efficiency, and reduced environmental impact is substantial. However, for that promise to be achieved, it will require confidence in the safety and security of the vehicle-to-anything (V2X) and infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V) techlogy being deployed. While companies have been logging hundreds of thousands of miles of travel in CAVs across the southern United States, the harsh reality of a Canadian winter brings forth low visibility and whiteout conditions, black ice, sw-covered roads and swbanks, and frigid temperatures. Before municipalities invest in new or leading-edge techlogies, they want to be sure the techlogies work under a range of real-world conditions. So how does one unlock the promise of CAV techlogy by properly testing both vehicle and roadside infrastructure, and develop an institutional kwledge base to successfully implement this techlogy without putting the traveling public at risk? In this session, participants will learn how the City of Ottawa answered that question. After this session, participants will be able to:
• Identify ways to successfully make invation a core objective for their department and do so with strong political buy-in.
• Assess opportunities for leveraging techlogy investments while understanding the realities of outsourcing techlogy kwledge.
• Recognize the importance of CAV techlogies for their traffic network’s future planning and operation.

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Mr. Omar Choudhry

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