Wider Impacts and Scenarios Evaluation of Autonomous and Connected Transport: the WISE-ACT COST Action

Connected and automated driving (CAD) trials are currently taking place worldwide and Europe has a key role in the development of relevant technology. Yet, limited research exists regarding the wider implications of the deployment of such vehicles on existing road infrastructure, since it is unclear if and when the transition period will start and conclude. It is anticipated that improved accessibility and road safety will constitute the primary benefits of the widespread use of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs), whilst co-benefits may also include reduced energy consumption, improved air quality or better use of urban space. Milakis et al (2015), Smith et al (2015) and Innamaa et al (2017) provide an overview of potential impacts of CAVs and methodologies to assess them. Towards this direction a recently launched Wider Impacts and Scenarios Evaluation of Autonomous and Connected Transport (WISE-ACT) COST Action is focusing on observed and anticipated future mobility trends and implications on travel behavior, namely car usage, travel time use or residential location choice to name a few. Other important issues to be explored under different deployment scenarios are social, ethical, institutional and business impacts. To achieve this, it is essential to culminate co-operation between a wide range of stakeholders at a local, national and international level, including academics and practitioners. COST Actions are bottom-up science and technology networks, open to researchers and stakeholders with a duration of four years. They are active through a range of networking tools, such as workshops, conferences, training schools, short-term scientific missions (STSMs), and dissemination activities. Consequently, this COST Action will facilitate collaboration within Europe and beyond about this emerging topic of global interest. COST does not fund research itself, but it tries to bring together researchers working on the same topic to create synergies. This paper presents the key findings from the first phase of the COST action project and proposes discussion on CAV-related deployment challenges.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2019.09.075
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146519304922
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2019 Bernard Gyergyay et al. Published by Elsevier B.V. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Gyergyay, Bernard
  • Chaniotakis, Emmanouil
  • Louen, Conny
  • Klar, Wolfram
  • Antoniou, Constantinos
• 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: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 447-449
• 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: Autonomous vehicles; Connected vehicles; Deployment; Economic impacts; Ethics; Institutional issues; Mobility; Social impacts; Travel behavior
• Identifier Terms: COST (COoperation in Science and Technology) Program
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01738813
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 3 2020 4:19PM