The Transportation Equity Panel at the 2021 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure addresses the possible gaps that will increase or decrease within underserved communities from a research, industry, and philosophical perspective.

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Yonah Freemark is a senior research associate in Metropolitan Housing and Communities at the Urban Institute. His research focuses on the intersection of land use,affordable housing, and transportation. He has published peer-reviewed scholarship in numerous journals, including Urban Affairs Review, Politics & Society, Housing Policy Debate, and the Journal of the American Planning Association. Previously, Freemark worked for Chicago’s Metropolitan Planning Council and has written for the New York Times, Next City, and CityLab, among others. He holds master’s degrees in both city planning and in transportation, as well as a PhD in urban studies from MIT.



Jacqueline Kuzio is an Assistant Transportation Researcher in the Infrastructure Investment Analysis Program at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). She is also working toward her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Science at Texas A&M University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of transportation, technology, and equity; in particular, how planning can equitably introduce emerging transportation technologies. In addition, her research examines how transportation investments and technological development, such as autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence, can both help and hinder equitable transportation.



Erin McCurry is the Product Manager of Accessibility at May Mobility, where she defines and executes on the company’s accessibility roadmap. She previously served as a Technical Program Manager, leading releases of new software and hardware features to the May Mobility fleet. Erin first joined May as a Test Engineer and helped develop standards and procedures for testing the autonomy stack. Prior to joining May Mobility, Erin worked at the EPA, where she analyzed emissions and driving trend data. She graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a B.S. in Electronics Engineering Technology.


Brandon Pitts is an Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering, Director of the Next-generation Human-systems and Cognitive Engineering (NHanCE) Lab, and Faculty Associate with the Center on Aging and the Life Course (CALC) all at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. He received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana State University in 2010, and a M.S.E and Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan (UM) in2013 and 2016, respectively. Prior to his faculty appointment, he was a Research Fellow in the UM Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS). Dr. Pitts’ research interests are in the areas of human factors and cognitive ergonomics, human-automation interaction,context-sensitive interface design, and gerontechnology in complex transportation and work environments, such as driving and aviation. His lab has several government and industry funded projects related to NextGen autonomous systems. Dr. Pitts is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. He is also a registered Engineer Intern (E.I.T).


Robert Sparrow is a Professor in the Philosophy Program and a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at Monash University, where he works on ethical issues raised by new technologies. He is a co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Robot Ethics and was one of the founding members of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.



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