Workshop Purpose: Bring research and broad transportation stakeholder interests to the table; develop and explore research questions that are important to support development and deployment of vehicle-infrastructure cooperation, e.g., VII.

Workshop Objective: Identify basic components and priorities for a 5 to 10-year program of research that will support the implementation of a cooperative vehicle-infrastructure¹ environment in the U.S. and to Produce a Research Action Plan for Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation.

Workshop Process: We will start with panel discussions to provide the perspectives of experts from a variety of stakeholder backgrounds, then spend most of the time in breakout group discussions. Throughout, we will aim to place the research in an operational context, based on vehicle-infrastructure cooperation services and real-world deployment considerations.

¹Note an important definition: "infrastructure" not only includes publicly-owned facilities and their operation but privately operated landside operations as well, e.g., telematics, infotainment, traffic services, probe processing, and potentially ACN handling.

Note: There are two additional events scheduled immediately following the TRB Workshop:

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