ScooterLab Workshop 2025
Successfully held on May 19, 2025.
The 2025 ScooterLab Workshop, held May 19, 2025 at the Weston Conference Center in San Antonio, brought together 65 attendees from academia, government, and research institutions for the first in-person ScooterLab workshop and the first public demonstration of ScooterLab’s integrated micromobility-supported sensing platform and software systems. The program featured keynotes, invited talks, research sessions, panels, and demos, resulted in eight new collaboration proposals, and set next steps for onboarding partner experiments and scaling ScooterLab with guidance from the Community Advisory Board.
Workshop Report
The official ScooterLab Workshop 2025 report is now available. Download the workshop report.
Participant Locations
Overview
ScooterLab is a community research testbed supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), designed to advance research in urban mobility, smart city infrastructure, privacy, security, and environmental sensing. By leveraging a fleet of sensor-equipped e-scooters, ScooterLab provides a unique open-access platform for micromobility-supported data collection and experimentation.
The ScooterLab Workshop: Advancing Research and Collaboration using a Micromobility-supported Sensing and Research Infrastructure brings together academic researchers, industry professionals, policymakers and other stakeholders to explore the capabilities and real-world applications of the ScooterLab developed at UTSA under NSF awards #2234516 and #2234517. This workshop aims to showcase the diverse applications of ScooterLab, inspire researchers to address critical scientific and societal challenges through its infrastructure, and foster interdisciplinary collaborations. The full-day event will feature live demonstrations, research presentations, and discussions on emerging challenges and the research opportunities that ScooterLab facilitates as a micromobility-supported sensing and research platform.
Key Details
- Date: May 19th, 2025 (Add event to calendar (.ics))
- Duration: 8:00 AM – 7:30 PM
- Format: In-person
- Registration Deadline: May 5th, 2025
- Registration: Free
- Location: Weston Conference Center UTSA San Pedro I, San Antonio, TX
- Target Audience: Researchers, faculty and students in computer science, transportation, mobility, urban planning, sustainability, and smart cities, as well as industry stakeholders, government officials, and policymakers.
Call for Proposals
To foster new research projects and collaborations leveraging the ScooterLab testbed, we invite academic, industry, and government researchers, engineers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to submit short three-page proposals. Selected proposals will be invited to participate in the workshop, where authors will have the opportunity to present their research ideas to the broader community, explore the ScooterLab infrastructure firsthand, and engage with the ScooterLab team.
The deadline for proposal submissions is March 31, 2025 April 7, 2025 (extended). For submission guidelines and further details, please click below.
Schedule
Check-in & Breakfast
8:45 - 08:50
Opening Remarks
8:50 - 09:00
Welcome Message & Logistics
09:00 - 10:00
Coffee Break & Networking
10:30 - 11:00
Invited Talk: NSF CIRC and MRI Programs
11:00 - 12:00
Keynote 1: Instrumented Micromobility: Opportunities to get
the Most Out of the Best Modes
Lunch
Community Advisory Board (CAB) Meeting (Invite Only)
ScooterLab Research Collaboration Talks I
- Scooting in the Heat: E-Scooters As Sensors and Mobility Enablers During Periods of Extreme Heat - Rounaq Basu
- Multivector Attack Analysis of Location and Trajectory Disruption in Shared Micromobility Platforms - Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman
- Accessible Path Mapping for All: Leveraging ScooterLab for Multimodal Wheeled Mobility Analytics - Vaskar Raychoudhury
- Integrating Heat and Air Quality Data into ScooterLab - Esteban Lopez Ochoa
02:15 - 03.15
Keynote 2: Research Infrastructure: History, Impact, & Experience
Coffee Break & Networking
ScooterLab Research Collaboration Talks II
- SAFERIDE: AI-Powered Rider Behavior Monitoring and Risk Mitigation for E-Scooters - Subasish Das
- Detect Near-Miss Collisions and Identify Hotspots for Electrified Scooters Using Artificial Intelligence and Sensor Data - Shunhua Bai
- Enhancing Micromobility Safety through Scooter-Based Multimodal Sensing - Xueyin Bai
04:15 - 04:30
Invited Talk: Digital Twin Integrated with Large Language Model (LLM)
Agentic Workflow for Urban Modeling
Panel on Micromobility-Supported Sensing
Panelists:
- Shunhua Bai, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
- Janille Smith-Colin, Southern Methodist University
- Rounaq Basu, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Kristen Brown, University of Texas at San Antonio
Concluding Remarks
Posters, Demos & Networking
Dinner
Venue
How To Get Here
The event will be held in the Weston Conference Center at UTSA School of Data Science, located in the heart of San Antonio, TX. The venue is easily accessible by air, road, and public transportation.
Address: UTSA School of Data Science, 506 Dolorosa St, San Antonio, TX 78204
By Plane
Fly into San Antonio International Airport (SAT), a 15-minute drive from the venue.
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Workshop Chairs
For additional information about the ScooterLab project, workshop, and proposal submissions, please contact:
ScooterLab PIs
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Greg P. GriffinResearch Coordinator, Oregon Dept. of Transportation
Testbed Operations & Deployment Lead
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