Demystifying the Autonomous Truck Landscape - The Facts, Half-Truths, and Science Fiction

Daniel Murray has more than 28 years of experience in a broad range of transportation fields including trucking research and economics, transportation safety technologies, and autonomous vehicles.

As Senior Vice President for the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), Mr. Murray is responsible for managing ATRI’s transportation research, testing and evaluation activities, and leads multiple national activities including the U.S. DOT-sponsored Freight Mobility Initiative. He is a well-known freight subject-matter expert and is a keynote speaker at more than a dozen annual events.

He is actively involved in the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board as Vice Chair of the Trucking Research Committee, and presently sits on the Boards of the Freight Mobility Research Institute, Mid-America Transportation Center, Northwestern U Telemobility Institute and the Minnesota Freight Advisory Committee. Mr. Murray formerly sat on the Twin Cities MPO board representing freight interests.

Prior to his employment with ATRI, Murray spent several years working in economic development for a Chicago business consortium, as well as developing transit programs, policy and funding with the Regional Transit Board in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota.

Murray received his BA from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and his MS from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

As the Vice President of Operations at Plus, Amisha Vadalia helped build and now oversees industry-leading operations, safety processes, trainings, and pilot programs that pave the way for the safe commercial rollout of Plus’s advanced driver assist system and autonomous driving solutions. The operations team under Vadalia’s leadership coordinates testing and data collection, manages the supply chain, and supports national customer deployments of Plus’s first commercial product, PlusDrive.

She previously worked in the renewable energy sector, leading operations at a solar monitoring and data analytics company.

Vadalia graduated from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where she received a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Management.

With 6 years in Trucking Autonomy at Daimler Truck and Torc Robotics, Oberhollenzer is a Truck-Autonomy-nerd of the first hour, and has shaped the companies’ commercialization strategies since then.

She is passionate about bridging the gap between technology and real-world operations with thoughtfully executed products and believes in achieving this with a teamwork and an open feedback and learning culture.

Oberhollenzer has successfully established technology teams, from Application Engineering, Data Analytics to Cybersecurity within the global Daimler Truck Organization and is the driver behind Torc Robotics’ Vision for the Human-to-Autonomy Interaction of their L4 Driving Solution.

She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from University of Muenster, Germany. As well as Executive Certificates in Advanced Analytics & Big Data from IIM Bangalore and Product Management from UC Berkley.