Acceptance and diffusion of connected and automated driving in Japan and Germany

About

Dr.-Ing. Christine Eisenmann is group leader at the Institute of Transport Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Christine Eisenmann holds a diploma (Masters equivalent) in Economics Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (2012) and worked and received her PhD at the KIT Institute of Transportation (2012 to 2018). She also studied and conducted research at the University of Iceland Iceland (2009-2010) and at Virginia Tech USA (2016). Dennis Seibert is a research associate at the Institute of Transport Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Bayreuth. At the DLR he has worked on passenger car fleet modeling and climate protection scenarios in the transport sector. Before joining DLR he worked on macroeconomic issues applying input-output analysis. Torsten Fleischer is head of the research group Mobility Futures at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) as well as one of its deputy directors. Originally a physicist by training he is now interested in the interdependence between societal change and technological change especially in the areas of transportation information and energy technologies in methodological questions of technology assessment and in the governance of innovation processes. Dr.-Eng. Ayako Taniguchi is a professor at the University of Tsukuba Japan. She continues to apply the findings of psychology to urban transport planning since 1999. She started her career as a construction consultant engineer in 1997 obtained her PhD (in engineering) degree from Hokkaido University in 2003 and has been working at Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2003 and at University of Tsukuba since 2005. Dr. Takashi Oguchi is a professor at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) of the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) in Japan and the Director of the Advanced Mobility Research Center (ITS Center) in IIS of UTokyo since 2018. After receiving a Master of Engineering (1990) and a PhD in Engineering (1993) in UTokyo he joined Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (1993-1995) and Tokyo Metropolitan University (1995-2011) before moving to his current position.