Autonomous driving and residential location preferences: Evidence from a stated choice survey

The literature suggests that autonomous vehicles (AVs) may drastically change the user experience of private automobile travel by allowing users to engage in productive or relaxing activities while travelling. As a consequence, the generalised cost of car travel may decrease, and car users may become less sensitive to travel time. By facilitating private motorised mobility, AVs may eventually impact land use and households’ residential location choices. This paper seeks to advance the understanding of the potential impacts of AVs on travel behaviour and land use by investigating stated preferences for combinations of residential locations and travel options for the commute in the context of autonomous automobile travel. The authors' analysis draws from a stated preference survey, which was completed by 512 commuters from the Sydney metropolitan area in Australia and provides insights into travel time valuations in a long-term decision-making context. For the analysis of the stated choice data, mixed logit models are estimated. Based on the empirical results, no changes in the valuation of travel time due to the advent of AVs should be expected. However, given the hypothetical nature of the stated preference survey, the results may be affected by methodological limitations.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.09.018
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968090X19301688
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  • © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Krueger, Rico
  • Rashidi, Taha H
  • Dixit, Vinayak V
• Publication Date: 2019-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 255-268
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
  • Volume: 108
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0968-090X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0968090X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Commuters; Connected vehicles; Households; Land use; Logits; Residential location; Stated preferences; Travel behavior; Value of time
• Geographic Terms: Sydney (Australia)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01722162
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 14 2019 9:30AM