Publication Detail

Envisioning Automated Vehicles within the Built Environment: 2020, 2035, and 2050

UCD-ITS-RP-15-105

Conference Paper

Suggested Citation:
McDonald, Shannon Sanders and Caroline J. Rodier (2015) Envisioning Automated Vehicles within the Built Environment: 2020, 2035, and 2050. Road Vehicle Automation 2

This paper describes the purpose, methodology, instruments, organization and participant discussion results at the Friday Ancillary workshop: “Envisioning Automated Vehicles within the Built Environment: 2020, 2035, 2050” during the TRB/AUVSI Automated Vehicles Symposium 2014. This hands-on interactive workshop included 110 participants working as small teams of experts from a wide range of fields—city planning, infrastructure, architecture, car design, engineering, software, and systems—who collaborated on specific built world scenarios focused on the challenges and opportunities for AV/ATN implementation in the United States by regional transportation planning organizations.

Key words:
Automated vehicle technology, Automated vehicles, Automated transit networks, Car/ride sharing, Built environment, Metropolitan planning organizations, Sustainability