Anuja Sonalker, Ph.D of STEER Tech

Efficiency of public transit hinges on strong ridership, and depth of penetration of transportation networks feeding into the commuter lines. Commuters taking public transit, for example, often navigate the first/last mile from home using another mode of transportation if they come from non-walkable neighborhoods. This puts increased demand on public transit to create seamless transitions for multi modal transit. Autonomous Vehicles can play an important role in this space. STEER’s Autonomous Vehicle Parking Technology has been undergoing Pilot trials with MDOT MTA and USDOT at a Maryland MARC Train Station. One of our goals has been to explore the effect of AV parking on commuter convenience, increased space efficiency on parking lots, reduced land use, decreased congestion, and in return potential increase in ridership. Do commuters care? Can transit agencies make land use more efficient, and make other resource conscious decisions? What aspects that are still uncharted? STEER will be sharing lessons learnt from the Dorsey Marc Project and having open discussions to facilitate deeper understanding and what it takes for commuter transit to realize benefits of niche AV applications.

The pilot at the Dorsey MARC station is funded, in part, by the Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Grant.

For more information, see https://steer-tech.com/

Biography:

Anuja Sonalker founded STEER in 2016. STEER's mission is to build Robust, Secure, Connected Self-Driving technologies that will change your life. What started as an experiment to create a cyber-secure product from the ground up, became a full-fledged, robust, secure, self-parking technology built on robust middleware.

Anuja is also Chair of the ISO Standard 21434: Road Vehicle Cybersecurity for Secure Product Development, Vice-Chair of the SAE Vehicle Cybersecurity Systems Engineering Committee and an Expert on the Joint SAE-ISO Joint Working Group.

She earned her doctorate in network security at the University of Maryland and holds an MS in computer engineering from the North Carolina State University. 

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