Tim Slusser serves as the Chief of Mobility Innovation, leading the City of Detroit’s Office of Mobility Innovation
Key topics in this conversation include:
- The objective of the Office of Mobility Innovation
- Why we need to move beyond technology pilots
- Deploying sustainable business cases for innovative technology
- Prioritizing problems to solve and solutions to deploy
- Why Detroit is the place to be for mobility innovation
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Tim’s Bio
Tim Slusser serves as the Chief of Mobility Innovation, leading the City of Detroit’s Office of Mobility Innovation. In this role, Tim works to direct the development of public-private partnerships and inform policies related to various mobility initiatives and deployments. He is an accomplished technology strategist and program manager with more than 14 years of business and economic development experience. His accomplishments include attracting the first $6 billion dollars of electric vehicle and energy storage investments in Michigan in 2009.
About The City of Detroit’s Office of Mobility Innovation
The City of Detroit’s Office of Mobility Innovation (OMI) exists to help the City of Detroit navigate the rapidly changing transportation and mobility industries. This includes working across city departments to coordinate cleaner, more accessible, and more equitable mobility solutions for residents and visitors. OMI collaborates with industry, academia, philanthropy, and local, state and federal government.
Future of Mobility:
The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, effective, and accessible mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields.
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Edison Manufacturing:
At Edison Manufacturing, our specialty is building and assembling highly complex mobility products in annual quantities of ten to tens of thousands utilizing an agile, robust, and capital-light approach.