AUTONOMOUS VEHICLESImpact on cities & its infrastructure

Smart cities Forum, March 1st 2018

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Autonomous vehicles

Impact on cities

Infrastructure

• Road infrastructure

• Public transport infrastructure

Recommendations

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Autonomous vehicles

Pilot test in the 70’s:

connected vehicles @Ford

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Autonomous car

Autonomous vehicles: vehicle typeAutonomous taxi Autonomous shuttle

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Different levels

Autonomous vehicles: Level of automisation

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Autonomous vehicles: Expected benefits

@ BCG

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Case study Amsterdam (BCG, 2017)

=> # km’s travelled: more than doubled compared to base case scenario 2050

?: shift from public transport & bike to autonomous vehicles

=> negative for cyclists & pedestrians: more traffic, less space for the less number

Autonomous vehicles: Heaven on earth?

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Challenges towards infrastructure are massive:

1.How to deal with the capacity problem?

2.How to deal with the complexity of introducing a new mode in the existing road network?

3. How to deal with the autonomous shuttles in a public transport network?

Autonomous vehicles: The infra challenges

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Autonomous vehicles: Solving Capacity problem

1. An improved road network management

▪ Separate lanes for different modes: cycles paths, sidewalks

▪ Crossings managed by traffic lights

▪ Dedicated routes for Autonomous vehicles

2. Reorganising the public space

▪ Transforming parking space towards additional capacity (US: 8

parkings for each car)

3. Road design

▪ Has to be based on level 0 (zero based automation)

▪ When level 5 fully implemented => smaller lanes, decreasing safety

distances

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Autonomous vehicles: Complexity of modes

▪ Measures to avoid unallowed crossing of cyclist & pedestrians (behavior adaptation)

▪ Connected infrastructure to facilitate AV (V2I, C-ITS, traffic lights

▪ Creation of transport hubs : a multi-mode interchange, offering an alternative sustainable travel choice for a wide range of trips and at all time

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Autonomous vehicles: Public transport

▪ Robustness check of PT-investments towards AV(no-regret measures)

▪ Driverless shuttles for first and last-mileconnections

▪ Kiss&Ride/mobility hubs

▪ Prioritizing high-demand corridors

▪ New criteria for public transit investments

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Recommendations

▪ Execute Pilot tests with increased complexity & interaction of modes

▪ Require or incentivize alternatives to driving

▪ Certificating roads

▪ Flexible road design (p.e. variable lane width)

▪ Robustness check of PT-investments

▪ Implementation: Less complex (highways) towards roads with more complex interaction