In the planning and deployment stages of your AV project, there are several key activities geared toward helping you deliver a safe AV experience. Each of these is necessary to help you understand your current state, gaps to fill, and readiness for AV deployment. These activities include:

• Operational Design Domain Risk Assessment
• AV Application Assessment
• AV System Risk Assessment
• AV Operational Risk Assessment
• AV Facility Safety Assessment
• Passenger Interactions
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

Safety doesn’t just happen on the ground. It must be woven throughout your organization, an integral part of how you function, and beyond. Think about every part of your community, company, and operating environment that will come into contact with or interact in some way with your AV program. Take the holistic view and you’ll start to understand what a comprehensive safety approach can do for you. Some of the core activities our traffic control consultants have prepared at this level include:

• Organization and Standard Operations Process
• Hiring Requirements, Training Methodologies, and Management Tools
• Emergency Operations Process
• Compliance

A successfully safe AV deployment doesn’t mean your work is done. In fact, in many ways it is only just begun. All the work you’ve done to assess and develop your safety readiness is now put to the test. Safety is a long game — do the right things from the start and when you measure your performance, you’ll be glad you did. Our mass transit consultants have activities that focus on post-deployment including:

• Operational Feedback
• Updates and Upgrades
• Safety Assurance
• Standards and Regulations
• Lessons Learned
• Reporting
• Continuous Improvement