The End of Driving
Automated Cars, Sharing vs Owning, and the Future of Mobility
- 2nd Edition - August 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Bern Grush, John Niles, Andrew Miller
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 3 9 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 3 9 3 - 8
The End of Driving: Automated Cars, Sharing vs Owning, and the Future of Mobility, Second Edition explores both the potential of vehicle automation technology and the barriers it… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe End of Driving: Automated Cars, Sharing vs Owning, and the Future of Mobility, 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, this book 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.
- 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, and more
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. Language for Automated Driving
2. The Road Taken: Hype, Inflated Expectations, Disillusionment, and Reset
3. A Broad Context: The Contention of Change
4. Conflicting Narratives: Shared Understanding Will Be Difficult to Achieve
5. A Challenging Transition: Two Competing Markets
6. The Road Ahead Wherever Private Ownership Thrives
7. Barriers to Shared Use of Vehicles
8. Surviving Mixed Traffic
9. Microtransit and Shared Robotaxis in Merged Evolution
10. Governing Multiple Fleets of Automated Vehicles
11. Transit-Oriented Development and Other Land Use
12. Realistic Scenario End States for SAV Deployment
13. Backcasting for the Steps to Achieve Desired Futures
14. Summary of the Behavioral Economics Overlay
15. Zero Car Ownership Communities
2. The Road Taken: Hype, Inflated Expectations, Disillusionment, and Reset
3. A Broad Context: The Contention of Change
4. Conflicting Narratives: Shared Understanding Will Be Difficult to Achieve
5. A Challenging Transition: Two Competing Markets
6. The Road Ahead Wherever Private Ownership Thrives
7. Barriers to Shared Use of Vehicles
8. Surviving Mixed Traffic
9. Microtransit and Shared Robotaxis in Merged Evolution
10. Governing Multiple Fleets of Automated Vehicles
11. Transit-Oriented Development and Other Land Use
12. Realistic Scenario End States for SAV Deployment
13. Backcasting for the Steps to Achieve Desired Futures
14. Summary of the Behavioral Economics Overlay
15. Zero Car Ownership Communities
- Edition: 2
- Published: August 1, 2025
- No. of pages (Paperback): 332
- No. of pages (eBook): 332
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443223921
- eBook ISBN: 9780443223938
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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, CanadaJN
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, USAAM
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Speaker, Writer, Consultant, Toronto, ON, Canada