Bryan Reimer, a analysis scientist on the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), and the founder and co-leader of the Advanced Vehicle Technology Consortium and the Human Factors Evaluator for Automotive Demand Consortium within the MIT AgeLab, has been appointed to the Task Force on Human Factors in Aviation Safety Aviation Rulemaking Committee (HF Task Force ARC). The HF Task Force ARC will present suggestions to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on probably the most important human components and the relative contribution of those components to aviation security danger.
Reimer, who has labored at MIT since 2003, joins a committee whose operational or educational experience consists of air provider operations, air site visitors management, pilot expertise, aeronautical data, plane upkeep and mechanics psychology, human-machine integration, and basic aviation operations. Their suggestions to the FAA will assist guarantee security for passengers, plane crews, and cargo for years to come back. His appointment follows a yr of serving on the Transforming Transportation Advisory Committee (TTAC) for the U.S. Department of Transportation, the place he has taken on the position of vice chair on the Artificial Intelligence subcommittee. The TTAC just lately launched a report back to the Secretary of Transportation in response to its constitution.
As a mobility and expertise futurist working on the intersection of expertise, human habits, and public coverage, Reimer brings his experience in human-machine integration, transportation security, and AI to the committee. The committee, chartered by congressional mandate by way of the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, particularly requires a portion of the committee to have experience on human components however whose expertise and coaching aren’t primarily in aviation, which Reimer will present.
MIT CTL creates provide chain innovation and drives it into follow by way of the three pillars of analysis, outreach, and schooling, working with companies, authorities, and nongovernmental organizations. As a longtime advocate of collaboration throughout private and non-private sectors to make sure shoppers’ security in transportation, Reimer’s explicit experience will assist the FAA extra broadly take into account the human factor of aviation security. Yossi Sheffi, director of MIT CTL, says, “Aviation performs a vital position within the fast and dependable transportation of products throughout huge distances, making it important for delivering time-sensitive merchandise globally. We should perceive the present human components concerned on this course of to assist guarantee easy operation of this indispensable service amid potential disruptions.”
Reimer just lately mentioned his analysis on an episode of The Ojo-Yoshida Report with Phil Koopman, a professor {of electrical} and laptop engineering.
HF Task Force ARC members will serve a two-year time period. The first ARC plenary assembly was held Jan. 15-16 in Washington.