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10 Principles for Managing Autonomous Vehicles on City Streets
Autonomous vehicles spark questions about safety, accessibility, congestion, and even labor practices, but planners can pull ahead in the AV revolution.by: Jonathan Barnett, FAICP, Zhongjie Lin February 17, 2023Autonomous vehicles spark questions about safety, accessibility, congestion, and even labor practices, but planners can pull ahead in the AV revolution. -
7 Trends Knocking at the Planning Office Door
In today’s complex world, balancing everyday activities, near-term plans, and visioning for the future is more challenging than ever. APA Foresight has got you covered.by: Petra Hurtado, PhD, Alexsandra Gomez July 08, 2021In today's rapidly changing world, it can be tough to stay abreast of all the challenges facing planners. This article explores seven of the most pressing trends for the profession and what they could mean for your community. -
Autonomous Vehicles: Developing a Public Health Research Agenda to Frame the Future of Transportation Policy
Journal of Transport and Health, 6: 245-252, 2017by: Travis Crayton, AICP , Benjamin MeierThis article examines the prospective public health implications arising from the widespread adoption of fully autonomous vehicles and public health considerations for the development of transportation policy. -
Emerging Vehicle Technologies & the Search for Urban Mobility Solutions
Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 4(1): 83-100, 2016by: Jitendra BajpaiThis article examines the potential of autonomous vehicles to improve road safety, lower fuel consumption and emissions in vehicles, and provide mobility options for vulnerable populations. -
Cautious Optimism About Driverless Cars and Land Use in American Metropolitan Areas
Cityscape, 18(3): 181-184, 2016by: Brandon FullerThis article examines the potential for autonomous vehicles to enable beneficial changes in land use. -
Driverless Cars and the City: Sharing Cars, Not Rides
Cityscape, 18(3): 197-204, 2016by: Wendell CoxThis article speculates that driverless cars will not significantly impact urban form but will expand opportunities and quality of life for the disabled and other people who are unable to drive. -
Transitioning to Driverless Cars
Cityscape, 18(3): 193-196, 2016by: Giles DurantonThis article discusses some considerations about transitioning to autonomous vehicles. -
Choice and Speculation
Cityscape, 18(3): 185-192, 2016by: Lisa SchweitzerThis article discusses potential changes related to the adoption of autonomous vehicle technologies. -
The Evolution of Connected Vehicle Technology: From Smart Drivers to Smart Cars to… Self-Driving Cars
ITE Journal, July 2013by: Siva NarlaThis article looks at the last two decades of transportation innovation as a perspective for visualizing the changes that autonomous vehicle technology will bring. -
Urban Form and Function in the Autonomous Era
Australasian Transport Research Forum Proceedings, November 2016by: Praveen Thakur, Robert Kinghorn, Renan GraceThis article explores the potential impacts of the autonomous era on transport infrastructure demand and urban form. -
How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving
New Mexico Law Review, 47(1): 99-138, 2017by: Bryant SmithThis article presents steps to help governments encourage the adoption of automated vehicles (AVs) within the communities they serve. -
Ten Rules for Cities About Automated Vehicles
Public Square, February 2020by: Jeff Speck, FAICPThis article offers ten suggestions for cities to consider how autonomous vehicles (AVs) can help maximize mobility for the greatest number of people, with the most positive outcomes for society. -
Automated Vehicle Regulatory Challenges: Avoiding Legal Potholes through Collaboration
League of California Cities, September 2017by: Greg Rodriguez, Lauren IsaacThis article offers an introduction to the regulatory landscape and challenges that come with automated vehicles. -
How Driverless Cars Could Be a Big Problem for Cities
Governing, August 2017by: Mike MaciagThis article discusses how autonomous vehicles (AVs) could negatively impact city budgets that depend on parking tickets, traffic citations, gas taxes, and other auto-related revenue. -
Driverless Vehicles: Opportunity for Further Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Under California AB 32
Hastings Law Journal, 69: 1-27, 2018by: Keiichiro ZushiThis article discusses the impact of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on greenhouse gas emissions and considers policy implications in California. -
Not If, but When: Autonomous Driving and the Future of Transit
Journal of Public Transportation, 21(1): 92-103, 2018by: Jerome Lutin, AICPThis article discusses the implications of autonomous driving on transit systems. -
Cities, Automation, and the Self-parking Elephant in the Room
Planning and Theory Practice 19(2): 291-297, 2018by: Erick Guerra, Eric MorrisThis article explores obstacles that impact autonomous vehicles (AVs) implementation in urban spaces. -
Assessing the Long-term Effects of Autonomous Vehicles: A Speculative Approach
Transportation Research Procedia, 13: 18-29, 2016by: Wolfgang Gruel, Joseph StanfordThis article explores how autonomous vehicles (AVs) could affect travel behaviors and the broader transportation system. -
Developing Policy for Urban Autonomous Vehicles: Impact on Congestion
Urban Science, 2(2): 1-11, 2018by: David MetzThis article discusses the need for transportation policies that responds to the potential impacts of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on congestion. -
Are Cities Prepared for Autonomous Vehicles?
Journal of the American Planning Association, 85(2): 133-151, 2019by: Yonah Freemark, Anne Hudson, Jinhua ZhaoThis article examines how municipalities are preparing for the deployment of autonomous vehicles within their jurisdictions by reviewing existing plans and surveying transportation and planning officials. -
Crafting Inclusive Autonomous Vehicle Policies
NCSL, 28(15): 1-2, 2020by: Doug ShinkleThis article discusses the need for policy that ensures that autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies equitably include people with disabilities. -
How Autonomous Vehicles Could Constrain City Budgets
Governing Magazine, July 2017by: Michael MaciagThis article examines the impacts of autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies on municipalities' revenues. -
Getting Ready for Driverless Cars
Zoning Practice — December 2017by: Donald Elliott, FAICP December 01, 2017This issue of Zoning Practice discusses basic facts about driverless cars and summarizes how changes in travel behavior associated with fully autonomous vehicles will likely affect local zoning codes over the next 20 to 30 years.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Primed for Deliveries
Rapidly changing e-commerce trends and technologies mean big changes for land-use and infrastructure planning.April 01, 2020E-commerce impacts extend far beyond the curb, and freight and deliveries are increasingly commanding the attention of a wider range of planners, government officials, and policy makers. -
Attention: The Age of Automation Is Right Ahead
What self-driving cars will mean to drivers and the rest of us.May 01, 2015This web-exclusive sidebar explores the effects that driverless cars would have on our lives, communities, and transportation systems. -
Best-Case Scenario Planning
Incorporating AV and other technology into plans.May 01, 2018Change and uncertainty — from technology to climate change to shifts in the economy — are disrupting the planning tradition of mid- and long-range forecasts. Scenario planning can be a powerful tool for incorporating uncertainty. -
Connected
Promising low costs and high safety, connected vehicles are even closer to reality than AVs. Some are here today.May 01, 2018Connected vehicles are not autonomous vehicles but they have plenty of implications for planners. -
The Commissioner — April 2018
In The Commissioner's April 2018 issue: "Preparing for Autonomous Vehicles," "You and Your Staff," "Zoning in on Housing Diversity," "France's Impact on American Cities," and planning office staff resources.List price$5.00Members & subscribers$0.00 -
Q & A
Planning’s editor in chief, Meghan Stromberg, talks to planners and others who are shaking up the status quo.April 01, 2017Conversations about three areas of disruption to the transportation status quo: autonomous vehicles/tiny cars, bike sharing, and ride sharing. -
Here Come The Robot Cars
Autonomous vehicles will impact the built environment. The time to plan for it is now.April 01, 2017In the next few years, autonomous vehicles — driverless cars, self-driving cars, and robot cars — will usher in a transformation of our landscape similar to the one brought on by the Model T more than a century ago. -
The Commissioner — December 2016
In this PDF of The Commissioner's December 2016 issue: "Credibility, Respect, and Power," "Driverless Vehicles and Your Community," "On Being an Effective — and Satisfied — Planning Commission," "A Safe Passage for Wildlife," and a resource finder on autonomous vehicles.List price$5.00Members & subscribers$0.00 -
When Autonomous Cars Take to the Road
Be ready; it may happen soon.May 01, 2015Are autonomous cars coming to a road near you? Assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania Erick Guerra explores the technology and says driverless cars might be a reality sooner than you think. -
Planning for Cars that Drive Themselves
November 01, 2018Planners can't answer all the questions arising around autonomous vehicles, but it’s important we ask and start thinking about them. APA’s PAS Report, Planning for Autonomous Mobility, drives that effort along.
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