Automated vehicles: are we ready? Internal report on potential implications for Main Roads WA

The purpose of this report is to highlight the potential implications for Main Roads of the introduction and wider use of Automated Vehicles (AVs) on Western Australian roads. It will inform Main Roads’ strategic decision-making process and position the organisation to appropriately respond to a potentially disruptive innovation, which could fundamentally change the transport landscape and society, and have profound implications for those agencies involved. As railways transformed the way we travelled in the 19th century, and the internal combustion engine or the motor car in the 20th, AVs will revolutionise transport in the 21st century. The impacts of automation on the transport system will be far reaching and felt well in advance of the arrival of the fully ‘driverless car’.

• Record URL:
  https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/AboutMainRoads/News/Pages/av.aspx
• Corporate Authors:

  Main Roads Western Australia

  PO Box 6202, East Perth WA 6892, Australia
  Perth, Western Australia   
• Authors:
  • Somers, A
  • Weeratunga, K
• Publication Date: 2015-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 46p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Decision making; Innovation; Policy; Transportation departments
• Uncontrolled Terms: Policy and planning
• Geographic Terms: Western Australia
• ATRI Terms: Decision process; Innovation; Policy; Road authority
• Subject Areas: Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01556811
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 12 2015 11:49AM