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While many transportation and city planners, researchers, students, practitioners, and political leaders are familiar with the technical nature and promise of vehicle automation, consensus is not yet often seen on the impact that will result, or the policies and actions that those responsible for transportation systems should take. The End of Driving: Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Autonomous Vehicles explores both the potential of vehicle automation technology and the barriers it faces when considering 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 life cycle of the multi-year transportation systems planning processes, including novel regulation, planning, and acquisition tools for regional transportation. Application-oriented, research-based, and solution-oriented rather than predict-and-warn, The End of Driving concludes with a detailed discussion of the systems design needed for accomplishing this shift. From the Foreword by Susan Shaheen: The authors … extend potential solutions through a set of open-ended exercises after each chapter. Their approach is both strategic and deliberate. They lead the reader from definitions and context setting to the transition toward automation, employing a range of creative strategies and policies. While our quest to understand how to deploy automated vehicles is just beginning, this book provides a thoughtful introduction to inform this evolution.

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Author:   Bern Grush (Founder, Urban Robotics Foundation, Canada.) ,  John Niles (Center for Advanced Transportation and Energy Solutions, Seattle, WA, USA)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780128154519

ISBN 10:   0128154519
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   14 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9780443223921
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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

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Bern Grush is a transportation demand management and geographic systems entrepreneur, consultant, speaker, and writer. Co-Founder of Grush Niles Strategic, Bern develops patents and technologies for autonomous road tolling and autonomous parking, is a contributing author to Disrupting Mobility: Impacts of Sharing Economy and Innovative Transportation on Cities (Springer, 2017), and holds degrees in Human Factors and Systems Design Engineering from the University of Toronto. John Niles researches, designs, plans, and evaluates transportation improvement policies and actions. He is a Research Associate with the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University, Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Energy Solutions in Seattle, and Co-Founder of both the Grush Niles Strategic and Global Telematics consultancies. He holds degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.

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