Design and Implementation of a Shared Autonomous Vehicle System in Austin, Texas
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) and shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) have the potential to significantly change society’s transportation systems and land-use patterns, thereby impacting the quality of life for urban dwellers. A shift to self-driven cars affects what people do in their vehicles, their values of travel time, road safety, traffic congestion, and the natural environment. Cities and other government agencies will have the opportunity to integrate SAV technologies systemically within roadway networks to further promote these concepts, as well as to provide low-cost transit options, further propagating the benefits. The assumptions enabling this forward thinking will provide initial insight into AV technology and their application within the Austin network. The station and queuing geometry utilizes context sensitive design, promoting multi-modal access. This insight into SAV dynamic ridesharing (DRS) systems enables potential initial integration of this technology, given the benefits logistically of fleet systems. Different station locations are examined, (and can serve as a template for other special trip generators in cities across the globe) serving different areas of the metropolitan region, and providing a differing level of service to the users of the Austin transit system. This culminated in the decision of electric cars providing service to four regionally distributed station systems, generating a benefit-to-cost (B/C) ratio of 4.42.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB30 Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Segal, Marc
- Kockelman, Kara M
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
- Date: 2016
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 18p
- Monograph Title: TRB 95th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Electric vehicles; Intelligent vehicles; Plan implementation; Queuing; Rail transit stations; Ridesharing; Urban areas
- Candidate Terms: Shared-use vehicle systems
- Geographic Terms: Austin (Texas)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I90: Vehicles;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01589775
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 16-1837
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 3 2016 1:21PM