Getting Ready for Autonomous Delivery Bots on Sidewalks (Bern Grush, Chief Innovation Officer, Harmonize Mobility)

Bern Grush, Chief Innovation Officer for Harmonize Mobility, Inc.,
is a Canadian transportation innovator trained in Human Factors
Psychology and Systems Design Engineering from the Universities of
Toronto and Waterloo (Ontario), respectively. He brings a unique
urban-sensitivity to vehicle automation from both a human-social
perspective and a complex-systems perspective. Bern is the
principal author of the 2018 textbook “The End of Driving:
Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Autonomous
Vehicles”. He is the inventor of a management platform for
transit-user microsubsidies being piloted in the EU, and the
project leader for ISO technical standard 4448: “Sidewalk and kerb
operations for automated vehicles” for ground-control operations.
In today's episode of The Logistics Tribe, Bern talks to our host
Marco Prüglmeier about the opportunities and challenges related to
deploying autonomous mobile delivery robots on our inner city
sidewalks. Links to resources mentioned in this episode: White
Paper "The Last Block: Towards an international standard to
regulate and manage sidewalk robots:
https://citm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Harmonize-Mobility_The-Last-Block_21.02.01.pdf

 White Paper "Draft international standard for ground-based
automated mobility: Loading and unloading at the curb and sidewalk:
http://endofdriving.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Whitepaper-A-Draft-International-Standard-for-Ground-based-Automated-Mobility.pdf

 Paper "Footway Robots and Business Improvement Areas".
http://endofdriving.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Footway-Robots-and-Business-Improvement-Areas-Grush-final-2021-04-30.pdf

 Article in Cities Today: "New standards on the way for delivery
robots":
https://cities-today.com/new-standards-on-the-way-for-delivery-robots/
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