Interpreting safety outcomes: Waymo’s performance evaluation in the context of a broader determination of safety readiness

The present document collects the main outcomes and most of the works presented during the 10th International Symposium on Transportation Data and Modelling (ISTDM2023), held in Ispra (IT) on 19-21 June 2023. The Symposium was attended by almost 200 participants from 35 different countries from all around the world. The program included three introductory presentations from the ISTDM steering and organizing committees, four key-note speeches, a science-meets-policy-and-industry panel discussion, nine presentations about relevant European initiatives and fourteen parallel sessions to present the works submitted to the Symposium. The challenges posed by transport and mobility to our society call for a better capability to model the transport system and anticipate the impact that new policies, technologies and business models may have on its efficiency and the externalities that it produces. At the same time an unprecedent amount of data is being made available and gives the opportunity to understand transport dynamics as never has been possible hitherto. These two converging factors call for the development of new generations of transport models and data-driven tools. ISTDM2023 has offered an important opportunity to share new ideas and perspectives in this direction.