November 14, 2018 Meeting Topic—Autonomous Vehicles

Innovation and technology are already affecting travel choices, pushing the advancement of mobility as a service model and reducing reliance on personal automobiles in certain areas. But the affects of emerging mobility are much broader than travel behavior. Around the country and the world, the promise of driverless cars has already affected retail, transit, land use, real estate, and public policy. Automated vehicle technologies, coupled with trends towards shared mobility and vehicle electrification, point to a revolution which will could create safer, cleaner, more accessible regions for all… or increase congestion, disparity, and environmental degradation. Everything connected to mobility, including land use, transit, environment, and economics, will require changes in planning, policy, maintenance and operations at the city, regional, and state level. What should we be thinking about now and into the future, to prepare for the automated revolution?

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Author: Editorial Team