About American Center for Mobility

Our Vision

To enhance the quality of our lives through the enablement of future mobility solutions.

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.

Accelerate the research, development, testing and validation process of mobility products and technologies in a safe and re-configurable environment

Support industry standardization and policy requirements of mobility products and technologies

Empower talent development through education and immersion with mobility products and technologies in partnership with our separate 501c3 ACM Foundation

News & Events

For press and media inquiries please contact our marketing & communications department: [email protected]

Motor Bella Panel Session

09/17/2021

Join American Center for Mobility at #MotorBella Tuesday, September 21 at 4:00 pm in the Event Center to discuss Mobility Trends of the Next Decade. Joined by Navigant, Escalent, Google and GPR. #futuremobility #acmwillowrun #motorbella

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ACM announces departure of COO Mark Chaput; ACM onsite activities increase, and team continues to grow.

09/10/2021

YPSILANTI, MICH / As ACM continues to grow, reporting July as the largest revenue month in ACM history, Chief Operating Officer Mark Chaput announces his departure to pursue a new opportunity. Mark Chaput joined ACM as VP of Construction and Infrastructure in January of 2017 serving as a consultant from MDOT in the critical first…

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GameAbove College of Engineering and Technology Kicks off School Year by Unveiling Autonomous Shuttles and Signing Lease Agreement with American Center for Mobility

09/03/2021

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 YPSILANTI, Mich. – In an effort to highlight its commitment to technology, Eastern Michigan University’s (EMU) GameAbove College of Engineering and Technology announced plans to deploy autonomous shuttles this school year and to open a new research and development space at the American Center for Mobility (ACM) in Ypsilanti, Mich. The Olli…

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WEBINAR: A Scenario Generation Toolbox for Accelerating AV Development and Validation at ACM

08/10/2021

COMPLIMENTARY WEBINAR: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 – 1:00 PM EST Scenario generation is essential for testing and evaluation of automated vehicles (AVs), but how to generate realistic and trustworthy scenarios efficiently has been an open question. To address this challenge the University of Michigan’s Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) has developed a scenario…

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Detroit Smart Parking Lab opens in September for real-world automated and EV charging testing

08/05/2021

Ford, Bedrock, Bosch and State of Michigan create lab; Enterprise to conduct first lab project and American Center for Mobility to run daily operations Detroit Smart Parking Lab (DSPL) – hosted at Bedrock’s Assembly Lab – provides physical environment to simulate real-world scenarios for testing advanced technologies in parking in parking, logistics and EV charging…

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ACM Mobility Connect Updates: July 2021

07/14/2021

Stay current with activities and news from the American Center for Mobility through the monthly ACM Mobility Connect Update. Webinars, CAV technology and products, insights, services and job opportunities. View July Updates

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TADA Automated Street Sweeper

07/13/2021

Current Situation Street sweepers are well-established, especially in urban areas and industrial or special transport sites such as airports. Yet, these vehicles have to be controlled by highly experienced staff, operating over 30 actuators. Also, in basic driving assistance systems, no sensors are implemented, detection of dirt and consideration of traffic is therefore completely the…

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Michigan Mobility Connect: Summer 2021 ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

07/12/2021

The American Center for Mobility and the State of Michigan Office of Future Mobility & Electrification have partnered together in this virtual event to highlight new activities in CAV technology and testing, and to shed light on challenges and solutions test engineers are working on. Though the future of autonomous technology comes with many promises and possibilities,…

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WEBINAR: Integrated CAV Test Equipment: Sync, Control, Measure & Monitor

07/12/2021

WEBINAR JULY 21, 2021 AT 2:00 P.M. (ET): Educated and informed test teams work faster, more efficiently and have better results. This is the catalyst behind ACM’s webinar on Integrated CAV Test Equipment. ACM powered by Intertek and Humanetics have partnered together to help your test team learn how to achieve higher test results in…

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ACM 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 ACMs 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.

Participate in existing standards organizations focusing on mobility solutions

Partner with select actives and suggest direction and guidelines

Coordinate ACM utilization for standards verification and validation

Develop and maintain a global perspective

ACM Foundation

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.

Careers / Join Our Team

The American Center for Mobility works daily with cutting edge companies and technologies. We are moving fast, no two days are the same.

We are always on the look-out for talented and experienced people to join our team. If you don’t find a posting to match your unique talents and skills, please send your cv or resume with a cover letter to [email protected] for consideration.