The End of Driving: Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Autonomous Vehicles

The End of Driving: Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Autonomous Vehicles explores both the potentials of vehicle automation technology and its barriers to forming coherent urban deployment. The book evaluates the case for deliberate development of automated public transportation and mobility-as-a-service as paths towards sustainable mobility, describing critical approaches to the planning and management of vehicle automation technology. It serves as a reference for understanding the full lifecycle of the multi-year transportation systems planning processes, including regulation, planning, and acquisition for regional transportation.

Application-oriented, research-based, and solution-oriented rather than “predict-and-warn,” the book concludes with a detailed discussion of the systems design needed for accomplishing this shift.

Offers a workable public transit solution design melding the traditional “acquire-and-operate” mode with the absorption of new technologyProvides a step-by-step discussion of digital systems designs and effective regulation-by-data approaches needed for a new urban mobilityLearning aids include case study scenarios, chapter objectives and discussion questions, sidebars and a glossary

1. Critical Terminology and System Views 2. Three Planning Contexts: Hype, Diffusion, and Governance

Part I: Contexts 3. A Broad Context: The Contention of Change 4. Conflicting Narratives: Shared Understanding Will Be Difficult to Achieve

Part II: Problem 5. A Challenging Transition: Two Competing Markets 6. Transitioning Through Multiple Automated Forms 7. How Privately Owned Vehicles Could Dominate the Next 30 Years 8. A Note About Congestion 9. Barriers to Shared Use of Vehicles

Part III: Solutions 10. Transit Leap in Theory 11. Transit Leap in Practice: City of SeaTac 12. Governing Fleets of Automated Vehicles 13. Harmonizing Competitive Fleets of Automated Common Carriers 14. The End of Driving and Transit-Oriented Development 15. How Behavioral Economics Can Help