The End of Driving: Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Automated Vehicles, Second Edition explores both the potential of vehicle automation technology and the barriers it faces when considering coherent urban deployment. The book evaluates the case for deliberate development of automated public transportation and mobility-as-a-service as paths towards sustainable mobility, describing critical approaches to the planning and management of vehicle automation technology. It serves as a reference for understanding the full life cycle of the multi-year transportation systems planning processes, including novel regulation, planning, and acquisition tools for regional transportation. Application-oriented, research-based, and solution-oriented, this book concludes with a detailed discussion of the systems design needed for accomplishing this shift. This thoroughly updated second edition covers the future technology application milestones that will mark the rate of progress in the years ahead, including some that may not come to pass. More importantly, reasons for the existing lack of consensus on environmental impacts of vehicle automation will be tied to the visible milestones. I
1. Critical Terminology and System Views Summary
2. Three Planning Contexts: Hype, Diffusion, and Governance PART 1: CONTEXT
3. A Broad Context: The Contention of Change
4. Conflicting Narratives: Shared Understanding Will Be Difficult to Achieve PART 2: PROBLEM
5. A Challenging Transition: Two Competing Markets
6. Transitioning Through Multiple Automated Forms
7. How Privately Owned Vehicles Could Dominate the Next 30 Years
8. The Problem of Traffic Congestion
9. Barriers to Shared Use of Vehicles PART 3: SOLUTIONS
10. Microtransit Rising and Potentially Evolving into Shared Robotaxis
11. Governing Fleets of Automated Vehicles
12. The End of Driving and Transit-Oriented Development
13. How Behavioral Economics Can Help
14. Beyond personal mobility
15. The path to zero-car-ownership communities CONCLUSION
Bern Grush is a transportation demand management and geographic systems entrepreneur, consultant, speaker, and writer. Co-Founder of Grush Niles Strategic, Bern develops patents and technologies for autonomous road tolling and autonomous parking, is a contributing author to Disrupting Mobility: Impacts of Sharing Economy and Innovative Transportation on Cities (Springer, 2017), and holds degrees in Human Factors and Systems Design Engineering from the University of Toronto. John Niles researches, designs, plans, and evaluates transportation improvement policies and actions. He is a Research Associate with the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University, Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Energy Solutions in Seattle, and Co-Founder of both the Grush Niles Strategic and Global Telematics consultancies. He holds degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University. Andrew Miller, PhD is a speaker, writer, and consultant. He has 20 years of experience spanning academia; Canadian government at the municipal and provincial levels; and private-sector advisory. He also served as the Toronto mobility lead for Sidewalk Labs, Google's smart-city firm, designing innovative transport systems, including infrastructure for automated driving. Andrew has served as an invited expert on automated driving, and the future of mobility generally, to global audiences, including the leadership of General Motors; of Woven, Toyotas future-mobility arm; and the Senate of Canada. He also sits on the boards of a variety of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations that aim to improve mobility networks in the greater Toronto area. He holds advanced degrees from Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities.
