Urban governance and autonomous vehicles
The development and deployment of autonomous vehicles is inseparable from the questions about the future development of cities. Urban governance is vital in ensuring the viability, effectiveness and safety of the next generation urban mobility services, and various roles taken on by cities are pivotal for the creation and maintenance of markets for autonomous vehicles. In this paper, the authors examine how urban governance approaches for autonomous vehicles development and deployment in the United States are evolving within multi-scalar regulatory contexts. They conceptualize the various types of engagements by cities through four different roles: city as regulator, mediator, data catalyst, and promoter. These categories are not mutually exclusive, but complementary, and are intended to support the development of appropriate models as cities continue to evaluate options for their urban mobility futures. The authors present two illustrative examples, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Boston, Massachusetts, to analyze how cities vary in their approaches to the new urban mobility sector. These are two of the leading municipalities in the United States on autonomous vehicle testing and deployment, and their experiences are helpful to elucidating the variety of regulatory contexts, approaches to governance, and potential outcomes.
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- © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Aoyama, Yuko
- Alvarez Leon, Luis F
- Publication Date: 2021-12
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Figures; Maps; References;
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Serial:
- Cities
- Volume: 119
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0264-2751
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02642751
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Cities; Governance; Mobility; Regulations; Urban transportation
- Geographic Terms: Boston (Massachusetts); Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01785832
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Oct 26 2021 2:25PM