Dr. Peter Sweatman is an affiliate principal of CAVita with over 30 years of experience in transportation research and innovation, and the application of R&D. That experience encompasses vehicles, drivers, and infrastructure and impinges on technology, policy, and strategic planning. He is a trusted national voice on connected and automated vehicles, safety, ITS, transportation research and education, and freight technology and policy. He has worked extensively in Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as the United States.

Dr. Sweatman is the former director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) (2004 – 2015), and the founder and former director of the Michigan Mobility Transformation Center (MTC) (2013 – 2016). MTC opened the unique test facility Mcity in July 2015 and has set the bar for safe, off-roadway testing of automated vehicles.

Dr. Sweatman is a past chairman of the board of ITS America, and also served as founding chair of the ITS America Leadership Circle. He served on the U.S. Department of Transport’s ITS Advisory Committee, as well as a number of roles with the Society of Automotive Engineers. At the Transportation Research Board, he chaired the recent EU-US Symposium Towards Road Transport Automation, and served on the Committee on National Research Frameworks: Application to Transportation. He is currently co-chairing the National Academies/TRB Forum on Preparing for Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility, working with the global industrial consortium Together for Safer Roads, and is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne.

Dr. Sweatman holds a degree in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne (Australia) where he is an appointed International Enterprise Professor School of Engineering.

Mr. Mohaddes was appointed Econolite’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on June 8, 2022. Prior to that, he served Econolite as its President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) since January 2017 where he helped transform the organization into a premier and robust technology organization focused on Traffic management products and services.

Mr. Mohaddes has over 30 years of experience in the application of technology in transportation systems, including traffic management, communication, traveler information, systems integration, transit, and Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV). He is a recognized expert in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and has over 70 publications and presentations at industry organizations around the world.

After serving the City of Dallas, Texas as a Traffic Engineer, and several years of consulting practice, Mr. Mohaddes co-founded Meyer, Mohaddes Associates in 1991. This Los Angeles-based, firm focused on the application of technology in traffic management and systems planning, which later merged with Iteris, Inc. As the former CEO of Iteris, Mr. Mohaddes led the transformation and substantial growth of the company into a software-based traffic management information technology organization through organic growth and acquisition.

Mr. Mohaddes is a founding member and former Chairman of ITS America, where in 2015, he was inducted into its hall of fame. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and a former member of its Executive Committee. For the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI), Mr. Mohaddes is a former Chairman and member of its Board of Trustees. He is an Institute of Transportation Engineer’s Fellow as well as a member of the University of California Irvine, Chancellor’s CEO Roundtable. Mr. Mohaddes is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE). He is also serving as a member of the Board of Directors for ITS World Congress.

David St. Amant is an affiliate principal of CAVita and has over 30 years of experience in technology, much of it in the transportation industry. He is a former President and Chief Operating Officer at Econolite Group, Inc., headquartered in Anaheim, California. Econolite Group is the umbrella company of Econolite, Econolite Canada, Aegis ITS, Safetran, CAVita, and Arroyo Holdings de Mexico. Econolite has been a recognized leader, innovator, manufacturer, and service provider of transportation management solutions since the company’s inception in 1933.

Prior to joining Econolite Group, David held senior management and executive level sales and marketing positions at Avnet, Inc., the world’s largest distributor of electronic components. In 1990, he was named Vice President of Marketing for Time Electronics, an Avnet company. He would later be named Vice President, Supplier Business Management for Avnet/Silicon, the company’s $1.8 Billion semiconductor division.

In 2004 through 2005, David served as Chair of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), Transportation sector. He is the past Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA). He is one of the founding members and co-chair of the Mobility Transformation Center – University of Michigan Leadership Circle (MTC). He is a past member of the Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Deployment Coalition (V2IDC) Executive Committee, and is a past chair of the ITS America Legislation Steering Committee. He has been an active member on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee for Woodbury University, and is the most immediate past Chairman of the Board for Woodbury University.

Thomas E. Kern is an affiliate principal of CAVita with a career spanning three decades focused on innovation and change management. He recently completed his tenure as Managing Director for the National Operations Center of Excellence, having successfully led the Center into its second year in service to the transportation operations community. Tom previously served at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, first as its Executive Vice President for seven years and then as interim President in 2014/2015. While at ITS America, he oversaw the organizations operations and three successful World Congresses held in New York, Orlando, and Detroit.

In the early 2000s, Tom was the Director for Knowledge Management at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland at which he established its nationally recognized knowledge management and organizational learning initiative. Prior to the Casey Foundation, he served as Deputy Executive Vice President at the American Consulting Engineers Council, and Program Manager at American Management Systems. He started his career at the US Environmental Protection Agency. Tom earned a BS in Government at Georgetown University and an MSc in Public Administration at the London School of Economics and also did further graduate study at the University of Oxford. He has also served as adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University in the field of knowledge management and is actively involved in a number of community service organizations as a volunteer.

Gary Duncan is an affiliate principal of CAVita with more than 40 years’ engineering and management experience in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) industry.

Duncan has been actively involved in the development of a number of transportation industry standards including NEMA TS2, NTCIP, ATC and recently SAE’s J2735 DSRC Message Set standard. He serves and has served in an advisory role on ITS related research projects including the FHWA ACS Lite research, NCHRP 3-66 Traffic Signal State Transition Logic Using Enhanced Sensor Information and 20-07246 Observed Minimum Thresholds of LED Signals, and various Performance Measures research projects led by Purdue University’s Transportation Engineering School. Duncan also serves as a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Traffic Signal Systems Committee and is co-chair of the ITE Connected Vehicle Task Force and ATC Controller Working Group. Duncan is currently serving as a member of the advisory board of the University of Idaho’s National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology.

Prior to joining CAVita, Duncan was a member of the technical staff at TRW Defense Space Systems Group.

Duncan holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Engineering of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and is a graduate of the UCLA Executive Management program.