Alumni Fellow Shares Expertise on Next Generation Transport at Tokyo Workshop
December 1, 2016
Alumni Fellow Shares Expertise on Next Generation Transport at Tokyo Workshop
Alumni Fellow Elizabeth Machek (pictured above) was a panelist at a Tokyo workshop organized by the Cross-Ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), which was established by the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI) in the Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. The November 15-17 SIP-adus Workshop brought international experts together to discuss the challenges of implementing Automated Driving Systems. Ms. Machek, a community planner in the Technology Innovation and Policy Division of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge (Massachusetts), participated in a panel on Next Generation Transport.
Ms. Machek participated in the Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program from 2008-2010. Her placements during her Fellowship year included Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as well local government offices and Tokyo Metro.
