Koorosh OLYAI P.E.

Biographical note
Koorosh Olyai, P.E. is the Senior Principal for Advanced Transportation Management Systems with Stantec Consulting. He has over 35 years of experience in public and private sectors developing, implementing, operating, maintaining and managing highway and public transportation facilities as well as Traffic Engineering and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Prior to Stantec, he served as Assistant Vice President for Planning and development for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit and a 25 year veteran of the transit industry.
A designated US Expert in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), he is the Convener of Working Group for Public Transportation and Emergency Management, Chairman of the US Technical Advisory Group (US TAG) and Head of US Delegation (HOD) to the International Standards Organization (ISO) Technical Committee 204 for Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Presentation: Meeting Transit Challenges; Driver-less Shuttle Buses
With the ongoing advancements in technology and the recent developments in the Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV), including those in the Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V),Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle to everything else (V2X), it is now time to re-think how transit can benefit from these advancements and developments. Increased ridership and reduced service delivery costs which are what every transit property strives for, may well be realized once elements of these advancements are incorporated in our business and service delivery models and practices.
Among the many challenges that transit has historically faced reducing its attractiveness, is “transfer” between modes and the First and Last Mile of a trip. This presentation will examine use of presently available shared use electric shuttle buses addressing this challenge.