Abstract The concept of Transit Leap is introduced and explained as robotic, shared-use, multi-passenger vehicle applications that start small, expand by demand, merge, and spread. It is an approach to deploying automated vehicles that is meant to blunt the long-established worldwide trend of ongoing increases in the number of private vehicles. Transit Leap is an alternative to year-by-year automotive feature creep, which is currently the most likely path to ubiquitous robotic mobility, absent public policy intervention. Transit Leap helps bypass the interim challenges of semi-autonomous and mixed-autonomy scenarios, and supports equity in mobility, as well as environmental quality and the financial viability of public transit networks.
Transit Leap: A Deployment Path for Shared-Use Autonomous Vehicles that Supports Sustainability
2017-01-01
15 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Autonomous vehicles , Disruptive innovation , Driverless , Labor disruption , Mobility as a service , Public transit , Public–private partnerships , Self-driving , Service deployment , Technology forecasting , Transit Leap , Transportation as a service , Transportation policy , Urban economics , Vehicle automation Engineering , Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering , Transportation , Innovation/Technology Management , Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) , Sustainable Development