Automated Vehicles

Shared Mobility and Automated Vehicles: Responding to socio-technical changes and pandemics

February 2, 2022

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Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen publishes a book that provides information on how to shape future shared vehicle systems.

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Top Ten California Automated Vehicle Policy Strategies

September 23, 2021

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Research teams at the University of California Davis and Berkeley campuses have developed a menu of options to set California on a path toward automated vehicle safety, social equity, mobility, and sustainability.

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Who Will Own the Cars That Drive Themselves?

May 29, 2020

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It was a difficult question even before the coronavirus pandemic hit: When self-driving cars eventually rule the roads, will Americans own their cars or make use of ride-hailing fleets?

The challenge is now threefold. Self-driving car technology had already reached a plateau, and getting to full Level 5 autonomy will be more difficult than many had thought. With the nation’s economy hobbled by the virus,...

Autonomous Vehicles - Part 2: Designing the Future of Transportation with Susan Shaheen

December 19, 2019

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Chris Sands of The Leading Edge Podcast speaks with TSRC's Susan Shaheen on the societal and environmental impacts of automated transportation systems. They cover transportation technology's affect on social equity, city land uses to make way for AV and microbility, energy sources and sustainability, and some of the emerging products from different autonomous vehicle companies.

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