Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: The challenges facing cities and regions

✍ Scribed by Stephen Parkes, Ed Ferrari

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 101
• Series: Regional Studies Policy Impact Books
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The past decade has seen substantial progress towards the development of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs). Accompanying the technological developments, there has been much dialogue around the potential for CAVs to help solve a range of economic, social, and environmental issues. Some of CAVs purported benefits include, for example, greater efficiency in the use of existing transport infrastructure, improved safety through removing human error, and widening access to automobility. However, there are also many potential downsides, and whether and how CAVs will deliver on their promise remains shrouded in much uncertainty and not a small degree of scepticism.

This book views developments around CAVs through the lens of local policymakers and the towns and cities they represent. We argue it is now time to expand the dialogue to include consideration for towns and cities beyond those early adopters to understand how they will fare, and how CAVs might interact with other important policy agendas facing them.

We discuss the different challenges that CAVs will pose for the urban built environment and the required forms of preparedness for these. We also explore how CAVs will interact with other uses and users of cities, including potentially competing efforts to enhance urban wellbeing and liveability. Finally, we consider how responses to CAVs are being developed and what the implications of these are.

This book will appeal to policymakers, practitioners, and academics interested in the potential impacts of CAVs and in understanding more about how they will shape and interact with cities and regions in the near future.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
About the authors
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Executive summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1: Introducing CAVs
1.2: Typologies and impacts of CAVs
1.3: About the policy expo
1.4: Our approach
1.4.1: Call for evidence
1.4.2: Expert interviews
1.4.3: Workshops
1.4.4: Literature review
1.4.5: Case studies
1.5: The remainder of the book
Notes
Chapter 2: The transition to connected and autonomous vehicles
2.1: Introduction
2.2: What are CAVs?
2.3: Levels of automation
2.4: Existing levels of preparedness
2.4.1: Country level
2.4.2: Policy and legislation
2.4.3: Technology and innovation
2.4.4: Infrastructure
2.4.5: Consumer acceptance
2.4.6: Cities and regions
2.5: Summary
Notes
Chapter 3: The challenges posed by CAVs for the built environment
3.1: Introduction
3.2: Long and uncertain time horizons, and the challenges these present for planning and decision-making
3.3: Ownership scenarios
3.4: A lack of certainty over what roles CAVs might fulfil
3.5: The role of existing spatial structures and transport trends and how CAVs might impact on these in the longer term
3.6: Summary
Notes
Chapter 4: Alignment with concurrent policy agendas promoting liveability
4.1: Introduction
4.2: Towards liveable cities
4.3: Promoting safe urban environments
4.3.1: CAVs: a road safety paradox?
4.3.2: “Ironies of automation”
4.3.3: Overestimating the abilities of CAVs
4.3.4: Segregation of road space and users
4.4: Accessibility and equity
4.4.1: Increasing access for those with mobility constraints
4.4.2: Exacerbating inequalities
4.4.3: The burden of responsibility
4.5: Employment and the economy
4.6: Energy and the environment
4.7: Healthy populations
4.8: Summary
Notes
Chapter 5: Responding to the arrival of increasingly connected and autonomous vehicles
5.1: Introduction
5.2: Establishing a regulatory environment
5.2.1: National level
5.2.2: Cities and regions
5.2.3: Key regulatory considerations for local policymakers
5.3: Guidance and learning through best practice
5.4: The built environment
5.5: Engaging the public
5.6: Summary
Notes
Chapter 6: Conclusions
6.1: An uncertain future
6.2: Providing the appropriate tools and resources
Notes
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