An Examination of User Adoption Behavior of Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Sustainability Implications

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) constitute one of the emerging socio-technical innovations in the transportation sector that will revolutionize motorized mobility in future cities. For the first time in the history of transportation, fully-autonomous cars (i.e. Level-4 and Level-5 automation), using sensing and communication technologies will assume safety-critical control functions and navigate cities without a human driver. At the moment, AVs are being tested in real-world urban environments such as Greenwich (UK), California (USA) and One-North District (Singapore) to be then deployed in other cities. This paper examines the determinants of user adoption intentions for driverless cars and the urban sustainability implications of user preferences for different AV modes. In line with this overarching objective, the paper addresses the following questions: 1. What factors impact on individuals’ decision about adopting autonomous cars? 2. What are the modal preferences for autonomous vehicles in the population? 3. What are the urban sustainability implications of user preferences?

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2019.09.037
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146519304533
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/23521465
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2019 Ransford A Acheampong et al. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
• Authors:
  • Acheampong, Ransford A
  • Cugurullo, Federico
  • Dusparic, Ivana
  • Guériau, Maxime
• Conference:
  • mobil.TUM 2018 "Urban Mobility – Shaping the Future Together" - International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport
  • Location: Munich , Germany
  • Date: 2018-6-13 to 2018-6-14
• Publication Date: 2019

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 187-190
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Procedia
  • Volume: 41
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2352-1465
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Automobile ownership; Autonomous vehicles; Decision making; Mode choice; Sustainable transportation; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01726878
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 2019 10:48AM