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Audience

  • Transportation planners
  • Public transit agency staff
  • Government transportation department staff
  • Transportation economists
  • Transportation policy analysts
  • Transportation sustainability specialists
  • Transportation modelers
  • Urban Planners
  • Fleet operators
  • Public and private sector staffs working on Mobility as a Service
  • Students in related courses
  • University teachers of related topics
  • Professional futurists

Table of Contents

1.    Critical Terminology and System Views

  • Terminology
  • Systems Views
  • Exercises

2.    Three Planning Contexts: Hype, Diffusion, and Governance

  • Forecasting: Hope, Hype, and Exaggeration
  • A Proactive Diffusion Model
  • Acquire-and-Operate vs Specify-and-Regulate
  • Exercises

Part I Contexts

3.    A Broad Context: The Contention of Change

  • We Focus on the Wrong Issues
  • Automation Is Just a Catalyst
  • Social Change Will Dwarf the Direct Effects of Automotive Innovations
  • Two Markets
  • The Installed Base Matters
  • Urban Transportation Challenges Will Get Worse Before There Are Improvements
  • Attention Is the Prize
  • What Will Happen to Public Transit Systems?
  • Job Change or Job Loss
  • Human Behavior and Behavioral Economics
  • Exercises

4.    Conflicting Narratives: Shared Understanding Will Be Difficult to Achieve

  • Utopia vs Dystopia
  • Density vs Sprawl
  • Share vs Own
  • Hope vs history
  • Human vs Machine
  • Technology Will Solve It vs Technology Will Make It Worse
  • History Shows Technology Helps vs History Shows Technology Hurts
  • Market vs Regulated
  • Infrastructure: More, Less, or Different?
  • How Long Should We Wait Before Acting?
  • Environment vs Jobs
  • Internal Combustion vs Electric Vehicle Power
  • Faster vs Slower
  • Exercises

Part II Problem

5.    A Challenging Transition: Two Competing Markets

  • Which Model Best Illuminates the Disruption?
  • Two Consumer Markets
  • Some Time in Hell Before Heaven
  • Exercises

6.    Transitioning Through Multiple Automated Forms

  • Transition Will Start Immediately, Move Slowly, and Reach a New, Uncertain Stasis
  • Predicting vs Hoping
  • How Soon Will Full Automation (SAE Level 5) Become Mainstream?
  • Utopia Simulated
  • Moving From Nonautomated Through Self-Driving to Driverless Markets
  • Exercises

7.    How Privately Owned Vehicles Could Dominate the Next 30 Year

  • Markets: Technology Adoption and Stickiness
  • Exclusivity, Choice, Access, Need (ECAN)
  • ECAN for the Conditionally Automated (Market 1) Vehicle
  • ECAN for the Driverless, Market 2 Vehicle
  • Exercises

8.    A Note About Congestion

9.    Barriers to Shared Use of Vehicles

  • The Ownership Question Is More Important Than Automation
  • Environmental vs Personal Choice
  • The Challenge of Travelers With Nonroutine Needs
  • Exercises

Part III Solutions

10. Transit Leap in Theory

  • How Shared Vehicles Could Dominate Passenger Trip Counts Within 30 Years
  • Switching to Robotic Vehicles From a Regional Government Perspective
  • Transit Leap
  • Transformation of Ownership—Not Just Disruption of Driving
  • Viability of Transit Leap
  • Service Delivery and Social Equity
  • Exercises

11. Transit Leap in Practice—City of SeaTac

  • Background
  • Study
  • Status and Early Recommendations
  • Exercises

12. Governing Fleets of Automated Vehicles

  • What Might Be Achieved With Automated Vehicle Fleets?
  • Factors to Be Considered for Governing Automated Fleets
  • Performance Metrics
  • Sharing: Neither the Default Start-State nor the Sole End-State
  • Anticipating 2030—40
  • Sizing a Massive SAV Fleet
  • The Performance Opportunity of Massive Market 2 Fleets
  • What Would Happen Without Region-Wide Market 2 Fleet Governance?
  • Exercises

13. Harmonizing Competitive Fleets of Automated Common Carriers

  • Regulating Automated Vehicles
  • Harmonization: The Opportunity
  • Harmonization: Mode and Fleet Competition
  • Harmonization Management System: Solution Overview
  • Harmonization: Performance Feedback System
  • Harmonization: Business Benefits
  • Harmonization: Operation
  • Harmonization: Examples
  • Two Independent Collaborative Processes
  • Exercises

14. The End of Driving and Transit-Oriented Development

  • Definition of Transit-Oriented Development
  • A Larger Target Radius for TOD
  • Target Reduced Vehicle Ownership—Ridership Will Follow
  • Efficacy of TOD in Metropolitan Regions for Commuting to Work
  • A Proposed New Definition of TOD
  • Summary
  • Exercises

15. How Behavioral Economics Can Help

  • How We Decide
  • Cognitive Biases and Vehicle Ownership
  • Loss Aversion
  • Nudges
  • Exercises

Conclusion

Glossary

References

Index