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Abstract

With connected and autonomous vehicles (C/AVs), drones, and delivery robots moving from research labs to urban streets, it will not be long before these technologies wind up on city streets. Unfortunately, public and private transportation stakeholders are generally not suited to keep up with technological change, especially when multiplier effects from various strands of innovation can disrupt urban life. Therefore, there is an urgent need to train a future-focused workforce that can adapt from today’s best practices and standards, be creative and critical, and come up with innovative options for road safety in the future. Likewise, there is an urgent need to demonstrate to public/private sector stakeholders the most likely transportation changes and challenges over the next two decades. This project has two aims: i) offer a new graduate-level course focused on using urban corridors as test beds to imagine reasonably accurate future scenarios that are based on state-of-the-art knowledge from the current times, and ii) to assemble an exhibition where the lessons learned will be shared more broadly with the transportation community through a virtual environment (VR) and posters.

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