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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 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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
