I was honored to be invited to serve on the organizing committee for the 9th University Transportation Center (UTC) Spotlight Conference on Connected and Automated Vehicles November 4-5, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Held at the National Academy of Sciences, the meeting was sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation (OST-R) and organized by the Transportation Research Board (TRB), under the leadership of Dr. Melissa Tooley, I chaired the plenary session and breakout session on Modal Applications of connected and automated vehicles, along with John Maddox of the University of Michigan. We had a great session with speakers from Carnegie Mellon, Texas Transportation Institute, NREL and Zipcar. Conference proceedings will be published later. Special thanks to TRB and OST-R staff Rich Cunard, Freda Morgan, Robin Kline and Thomas Bolle for their support.