Course: Planning for Autonomous Vehicles: A People-Centred Approach

Until recently, most interest in automated vehicles has focussed on passenger transportation, usually personal-sized vehicles for family ownership or taxis. The reason for this popularity is that many people like …

The automotive vehicle properties that make a safer or better machine, and the automation fleet properties that make it less necessary to own a car, and at the same time …

The basic, natural conditions and motivations for automobility pre-existed the invention of the automobile. Innovations in machines, energy, and planning during the 20th century expanded and deepened the nature and …

How many zero-car families and zero-ownership neighbourhoods would you need to create in order to lower per capita car-ownership in your country by 50%? A common 2016–2018 response to this …

There is a critical problem with the expectation that the current automotive industry will somehow shift us toward on-demand mobility. These industries cannot lead the transformation from privately owned vehicles …

Before we can really understand the way automation could improve a city, we need to recognise a distinction between “automobile” (the vehicle) and “automobility” (the system of using these vehicles). …

Here are seven things we need to have addressed before any more orders are placed for low-speed automated shuttles. First: Safety The crashworthiness of the proof-of-concept shuttles currently available is …