About American Center for Mobility
Our Vision
Our Mission
To transform the way industries advance safe, sustainable, and secure mobility technologies through our one-of-a-kind global development center.
Our Values
Infectious Enthusiasm– We want our stick-to-itiveness to our mission to be contagious and a catalyst for advancing the mobility industry
Reciprocity & Respectfulness– We are mindfully aware in our engagements with others and invest in relationships that endure and give back.
Growth Through Partnerships – Through our partners’ success, begets our success. Our ecosystem promotes prosperity.
Delivering on Commitments – We are accountable to our stakeholders and the commitments we make.
A Global Development Center for Mobility
ACM offers a one-of-a-kind global development center to transform the way industries advance safe, sustainable, and secure mobility technologies.
Located in Southeast Michigan on over 500-acres at the historic Willow Run site in Ypsilanti. ACM offers: an Advanced Mobility Proving Ground with test environments featuring specialized infrastructure, equipment, facilities and resources; An innovation and technology campus with an industrial tech park for the co-location of mobility companies; Event and demonstration areas for showcasing mobility technologies and convening industry activities.
ACM offers:
An advanced mobility proving ground provides a safe platform for the integration, testing, and validation of connected, autonomous, EV vehicles, and mobility technologies
An innovation and technology campus for the co-location and incubation of mobility companies and activities
Event and demonstration areas for showcasing connected and autonomous vehicle technologies and convening industry activities
The American Center for Mobility is open to private industry, start-ups, government, standards bodies, and academia.
News & Events
For press and media inquiries please contact our marketing & communications department: [email protected]
Validated: sibrtech Successfully Tests New Technology at ACM
sibrtech inc. Successfully Tests Its Smart Road Safety Technology Providing ‘Look Ahead’ Data for Oncoming Drivers PRESS RELEASE UPDATED: JAN 14, 2021 WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich., January 14, 2021 (Newswire.com) – More than any single factor, driver distraction, inattention, and failure to see potential dangers cause vehicular crashes. At the same time, pedestrian traffic-related deaths have risen…
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ACM On-Demand Webinars
Every day at ACM’s Smart Mobility Test Center engineers from across the mobility spectrum work toward validating important emerging vehicle technologies. Much of what they do has never been done before, innovation happens on the scene. In the hopes of helping others and moving new tech forward, ACM On-Demand Webinars create a platform for subject…
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DOE Awards $2m to Collaborative to Develop Connected and Automated Vehicle Energy Optimization Technologies
Michigan Technological University (MTU), AVL Powertrain Engineering Inc. (AVL), Borg Warner (BW), Traffic Technology Services (TTS), American Center for Mobility (ACM) and Navistar (NAV) have been awarded a $2M DOE grant to collaborate on the development of new connected and automated vehicle control technologies that will coordinate and optimize the powertrain and vehicle dynamics behavior…
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Department of Energy Announces More Than $7 Million In Funding For Efforts In Michigan To Protect Electric Grid From Cyber Attacks
Ypsilanti, Mich., October 10, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced more than $7 million in funding for Michigan-based cybersecurity company, The Dream Team LLC (DTLLC) to develop a first-of-its-kind infrastructure that protects the electric grid from cyber-attacks on electric vehicles (EV) and electric vehicle charging systems. Once developed, testing of the electric…
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FUSED AEB WITH THERMALCAN SAVE LIVES
A test summary for testing agencies, automotive manufactures and Tier 1 suppliers In July of 2020 FLIR Systems, Inc. (FLIR) engaged VSI Labs (VSI) to test the world’s first fused automatic emergency braking (AEB) sensor suite, employing a thermal longwave infrared (LWIR) camera, a radar, a visible camera, and a convolutional neural network (CNN). Read…
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Interview with Reuben Sarkar – Sept 2020 Automotive Testing Technology International
Check out the September 2020 Automotive Testing Technology International interview with ACM, “New CEO Reuben Sarkar explains the vision for the American Center for Mobility as part of an ecosystem for connected and AV development.” Join writer Graham Heeps in a discussion with Reuben Sarkar as they discuss vision for growth: “We’re developing partnerships across a spectrum…
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Michigan Connected Corridor: Building on a Legacy of Innovation
From the Willow Run Expressway, to I-94, to one of the first dedicated connected and autonomous vehicle corridors. ACM is excited to build on the legacy of innovation as a testing partner on a revolutionary project connecting the cities of Ann Arbor and Detroit that will provide new mobility solutions helping to make daily commuting…
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Cyber Research Firm GRIMM Co-Locates at ACM
ACM is excited to announce cyber research firm GRIMM will be co-locating at ACM to support automotive cybersecurity projects. This is GRIMM’s second location in Michigan enabling the expansion of GRIMM’s team into the heart of advanced transportation mobility testing and research. GRIMM moves in on July 17, 2020 with plans to have their Car-Hacking Workbench…
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Jeff Rupp Announces Retirement
After two years leading technology development at American Center for Mobility, Chief Technical Officer and Chief Safety Officer, Jeff Rupp has officially announced his career retirement starting July 2, 2020. Rupp started with ACM in May of 2018 with a focus on establishing a facility with world class capabilities for testing and developing automated vehicle technologies.…
Read MoreACM Partners and Industry Advisory Board
ACM’s approach is to achieve growth and prosperity for our ecosystem through partnerships. We are always seeking strategic partnerships that help enhance the capabilities and offerings of our global development center and provide value to our ecosystem of customers and stakeholders. Partnerships can include key customers, service partners, infrastructure & equipment providers, sponsorships, and long-term tenants.
Partnerships that meet a certain criteria have the opportunity to be represented on the ACM Industry Advisory Board (IAB) where they play a significant role in helping to guide ACM's strategic direction by providing vital input on improvements to the facilityand services, implementation of new technologies & capabilities, development of industry standards &best practices, events, research, and industrial tech park.
ACM IAB Vision
Convene key leaders across the mobility ecosystem in order to shape the future state of ACM and to best service its stakeholders in changing the mobility landscape.
ACM IAB Mission
The ACM IAB’s mission is to bring investment partners together to gain their strategic and operational guidance on testing, standards, and education related to future mobility. Engaging diverse representatives from industries will lend ACM a unique lens into the rapidly evolving mobility space, provide guidance as the landscape changes, support ACM’s intention to be a world class convener of the mobility ecosystem and facilitate connection and collaboration of partner organizations to advance technologies and capabilities in the space.
IAB Committees
The possibilities of collaborative activities through the development of committees within the IAB support further industry integration and the development of programs and solutions that can create the impact needed to move the industry forward. The IAB has two committees, with room for additional committees based on IAB request, including:
Standards Committee
As the industry continues to emerge and evolve, the ACM acts as a neutral convener of industry, standards and government organizations to collectively discuss and shape mobility technology best practices, standards and regulations.
Support Standards Development
Internal committee for IAB members
Purpose/Goals
Participate in the accelerated development of standards and suggested regulation terminology concerning the evolution of the transportation industry and smart mobility technologies.
Partner with select actives and suggest direction and guidelines
Coordinate ACM utilization for standards verification and validation
Develop and maintain a global perspective
The ACM Foundation offers immersive hands-on programs and resources with access to ACM’s world-class global development center in partnership with academic institutions, philanthropic organizations, and other non-profits. We offer education, training & professional development opportunities spanning from STEM K-12 to higher education and corporate training. We offer a venue for hand-on training with advanced technology. We also an ideal location for others to host their educational events such as Challenges & Competitions.
Vision
Our vision is for a safe, sustainable, and secure mobility future supported by a world-class workforce.
Mission
Our mission is to uplift the next generation mobility workforce through education and training.