fhwa invited staff to present at the pricing conference at the u.s.epartment of transportation in washington, d.c. there was on may 22 and 23. the conference covered a range of pricing strategies, for example, managed lanes, computer incentives and parking, pricing. principal planner rachel hyatt presented on overhaul of housing, pricing, travel demand management. the conference host has provided funding for timma policy analysis in the 2013-2016 time frame. moving on to local issues, we're right now actually planning a tour of the island for the commissioners. we had hoped to do it this week. the weather looked like it was going to cooperate, but we'll go ahead and do it a different day. so we'll work with your schedules, to do that, commissioner ronen, as requested. next item, advanced transportation and technology deployment. once again, the grant as reported, sfmta and sfcta have been awarded $10.99 million. of that total, $5 million is being utilized by timma and will support the toll system design and implementation. $300,000 will support the pi

. >> fhwa recently announced a series of national meetings to discuss automated vehicles and infrastructure. congress can encourage the fhoa to work. asto working hard and updated its coalition of private sector entities to provide cooperative automated coalition, cat coalition, those type of efforts should be encouraged. they help stop the gap -- >> everybody testified to this, in order to successfully prepare our roadways for autonomous vehicles, state and federal age is will need to engage in proactive preparation, rather than just simply reacting. what do you perceive the primary regulatory challenges or opportunities that will determine the infrastructure and agency readiness as, use is adopted and expanded for autonomous vehicles? >> thank you, chairman, for that question. it's, it's a great question to ask right now because i think that what you hear in the testimony across this panel is, there is both great opportunity and great challenges that we need to understand. i think it's a great time for this committee, congress, as a whole, and for the administration to be looking at these