Henriette Cornet

Dr. Henriette Cornet is an adjunct professor of engineering and co-director of the Autonomous Vehicles and the City Initiative at the University of San Francisco. Her work focuses on sustainable urban mobility, autonomous vehicles, public transportation, and the societal impacts of emerging mobility technologies. She is also founder and CEO of Urban Innovate, where she advises public agencies and industry on automated mobility, deployment strategy, evaluation, and public perception. Previously, she led automated mobility activities at the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and coordinated the €30 million European SHOW project, which demonstrated shared automated mobility across multiple European cities. Earlier, she was a principal investigator at TUMCREATE in Singapore and worked in the automotive industry in Germany. Henriette holds a PhD from the Technical University of Munich and serves on the Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committee on Transit Data and Emerging Technologies (AP017). She is also a Mineta Research Associate.

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• Automated mobility deployment
• Public transit innovation
• Mobility policy and governance
• Public perception and behavioral insights
• Evaluation of emerging mobility services
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• Automated and shared mobility
• Public transportation innovation
• Evaluation of mobility pilots and deployments
• Public perception and adoption of emerging technologies
• Mobility governance and policy

• Member, TRB Standing Committee on Transit Data and Emerging Technologies (AP017), Transportation Research Board, U.S. (2025-present)
• Research Associate, Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI), San José State University, U.S. (2024-present)
• Member, TRB International Coordinating Council (A0020C), Transportation Research Board, U.S. (2023-2025)
• Member, TRB Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation (ACP30), Transportation Research Board, U.S. (2023-2025)
• Member, Steering Committee of the French Interest Community on Automated Vehicle (CIVA – Communauté d'Intérêt des Véhicules Autonomes), Movin’On, France (2023-present)
• Member, Editorial Board of the book series Lecture Notes in Mobility (LNMOB), SCOPUS index. (2022-present)
• Executive Board member, CCAM Partnership of the European Commission, co-leading Cluster 1 ‘Large-scale demonstration’, Europe (2021-2023)

• Technical University of Munich (Germany), PhD in Civil Engineering and Life Cycle Assessment, 2012
• University of Technology of Troyes (France), Master in Engineering, Material and Environmental Sciences, 2007

• Thematic area leader of automated mobility, International Association of Public Transport (UITP), Belgium
• Principal Investigator, Design for Autonomous Mobility, TUMCREATE, Singapore
• Consultant for funded projects, Electric Vehicles & Energy Management, K&S Projektmanagement GmbH, Germany
• Senior Manager, e-Mobility at project i, BMW via contractor (Germany)
• Project manager Recycling & Life Cycle Assessment, Audi via contractor (Germany)

• Riggs, W., & Cornet, H. (2026). Autonomous vehicles and public transit incentives: A Case study of Waymo’s pilot transit credit program in the San Francisco Bay Area. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 38, 102045.
• Cornet, H., Riggs, W., Gkemou, M., & Dreher, S. (2024). On international collaboration within research projects for large-scale piloting of shared automated mobility. In Shared Mobility Revolution: Pioneering Autonomous Horizons (pp. 233-246). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Schallauer, D., Soteropoulos, A., Cornet, H., Klar, W., & Fürdös, A. (2024). Regulatory frameworks for testing automated vehicles: Comparative analysis of national regulations and key aspects for a sustainable implementation.
• Chng, S., Kong, P., Lim, P. Y., Cornet, H., & Cheah, L. (2021). Engaging citizens in driverless mobility: Insights from a global dialogue for research, design and policy. Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives, 11, 100443.
• Cornet, H., Stadler, S., Kong, P., Marinkovic, G., Frenkler, F., & Sathikh, P. M. (2019). User-centred design of autonomous mobility for public transportation in Singapore. Transportation Research Procedia, 41, 191-203.
• Stadler, S., Cornet, H., Novaes Theoto, T., & Frenkler, F. (2019). A tool, not a toy: Using virtual reality to evaluate the communication between autonomous vehicles and pedestrians. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality: The Power of AR and VR for Business, 203-216.
• Kong, P., Cornet, H., & Frenkler, F. (2018). Personas and emotional design for public service robots: A case study with autonomous vehicles in public transportation. In 2018 international conference on cyberworlds (cw) (pp. 284-287). IEEE.
• Ongel, A., Cornet, H., Kong, P., Khoo, R., Liu, T., & Kloeppel, M. (2018, March). Public transport service quality improvement using Universal Design standards and advanced vehicle technologies. In 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (ICoIAS) (pp. 211-216). IEEE.