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The End of Driving
Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Automated Vehicles
2nd Edition - April 1, 2024
Authors: Bern Grush, John Niles, Andrew Miller
Paperback ISBN:9780443223921
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The End of Driving: Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Automated Vehicles, Second Edition 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, The End of Driving concludes with a detailed discussion of the systems design needed for accomplishing this shift. This thoroughly updated second edition covers the future technology application milestones that will mark the rate of progress in the years ahead, including some that may not come to pass. More importantly, reasons for the existing lack of consensus on environmental impacts of vehicle automation will be tied to the visible milestones. It discusses the important concept of urban communities built for zero car ownership, as well as an introduction to robotic package delivery. Other new writing will cover the importance and means of protecting the health and safety of pedestrians, cyclists, roadside residents, and other individuals who are not passengers in automated road vehicles. 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. This book serves as a valuable resource for those trying to understand the direction of this technology and make informed decisions.
Offers a workable public transit solution design melding the traditional “acquire-and-operate” mode with the absorption of new technology
Provides a step-by-step discussion of digital systems designs and effective regulation-by-data approaches needed for a new urban mobility
Learning aids include case study scenarios, chapter objectives and discussion questions, sidebars, a glossary, and updated exercises for student readers at the end of every chapter
New to the second edition: entirely new chapters on Beyond Personal Mobility (including packages and cargo) and the Path to Zero-Car-Ownership, plus new coverage of the complementary role of fixed route surface modes, urban air mobility, the demise of first-generation slow speed vehicle automation, the challenge of providing affordable housing clusters connected by AVs, and more, as well as an increase in the number of illustrations throughout
Researchers and graduate-level students in transport engineering, transport planning, urban/spatial planning, public transport, robotics, environmental management, professionals worldwide at all levels in government transportation planning and the automated vehicle industry, economic sectors including industry, government, academics. Those in the autonomated vehicle industry, transportation policy consultants, journalists, policy think tank scholars
1. Critical Terminology and System Views Summary
2. Three Planning Contexts: Hype, Diffusion, and Governance
PART 1: CONTEXT
3. A Broad Context: The Contention of Change
4. Conflicting Narratives: Shared Understanding Will Be Difficult to Achieve
PART 2: 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. The Problem of Traffic Congestion
9. Barriers to Shared Use of Vehicles
PART 3: SOLUTIONS
10. Microtransit Rising and Potentially Evolving into Shared Robotaxis
11. Governing Fleets of Automated Vehicles
12. The End of Driving and Transit-Oriented Development
13. How Behavioral Economics Can Help
14. Beyond personal mobility 15. The path to zero-car-ownership communities CONCLUSION
No. of pages: 332
Language: English
Published: April 1, 2024
Imprint: Elsevier
Paperback ISBN: 9780443223921
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Bern Grush
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Founder, Urban Robotics Foundation, Canada.
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John Niles
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Center for Advanced Transportation and Energy Solutions, Seattle, WA, USA
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Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller, PhD is a speaker, writer, and consultant. He has 20 years of experience spanning academia; Canadian government at the municipal and provincial levels; and private-sector advisory. He also served as the Toronto mobility lead for Sidewalk Labs, Google's smart-city firm, designing innovative transport systems, including infrastructure for automated driving. Andrew has served as an invited expert on automated driving, and the future of mobility generally, to global audiences, including the leadership of General Motors; of Woven, Toyota’s future-mobility arm; and the Senate of Canada. He also sits on the boards of a variety of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations that aim to improve mobility networks in the greater Toronto area. He holds advanced degrees from Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities.