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Is the future of urban mobility shared? : modeling ride-hailing adoption and preferences for ownership and sharing of autonomous vehicles
(2018-08-16)
Society is experiencing the initial stages of a technological revolution that promises to disrupt urban transportation as known today and induce behavioral and social changes. The main factors guiding the transformation ...
The future of fully automated vehicles : opportunities for vehicle- and ride-sharing, with cost and emissions savings
(2014-08)
Fully automated or autonomous vehicles (AVs) hold great promise for the future of transportation, with Google and other auto manufacturers intending on introducing self-driving cars to the public by 2020. New automation ...
Modeling and optimizing network infrastructure for autonomous vehicles
(2017-05)
Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology has matured sufficiently to be in testing on public roads. However, traffic models of AVs are still in development. Most previous work has studied AV technologies in micro-simulation. The ...
Planning for autonomous vehicles : effects and optimal placement of reservation-based intersections in urban networks
(2019-05-09)
Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies can revolutionize the way we transport people and goods and may soon be publicly available, however proper planning for these technologies is crucial to their successful ...
Perceptions and preferences of autonomous and shared autonomous vehicles : a focus on dynamic ride-sharing
(2018-01-26)
This thesis covers certain aspects of autonomous and shared autonomous vehicles (S/AVs), with a focus on dynamic ride-sharing (DRS). The first part investigates Americans’ preferences in adopting AVs. Rapid advances in ...
A socio-technical model of autonomous vehicle adoption using ranked choice stated preference data
(2021-03-14)
Understanding the “if” and “when” of autonomous vehicle (AV) adoption is of clear interest to car manufacturers in their positioning of business processes, but also to transportation planners and traffic engineers. In this ...
Evaluating land use impacts of self-driving vehicles and leveraging intelligently charged electrified transit to support a renewable energy grid in the Austin, Texas region
(2019-12-10)
This thesis is divided into two parts. The first part focuses heavily on the land use model SILO and its implementation in the Austin, Texas six-county region over a 27-year period of full adoption of self-driving vehicles. ...
Integrating autonomous vehicle behavior into planning models
(2015-05)
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) may soon be publicly available and are expected to increase both network capacity and travel demand. Reduced safety margins from computer precision may increase network capacity and allow for more ...
Management of a shared, autonomous, electric vehicle fleet : vehicle choice, charging infrastructure & pricing strategies
(2015-08)
There are natural synergies between shared autonomous vehicle (AV) fleets and electric vehicle (EV) technology, since fleets of AVs resolve the practical limitations of today's non-autonomous EVs, including traveler range ...
Americans’ plans for acquiring and using electric, shared, and self-driving vehicles and costs and benefits of electrifying and automating U.S. bus fleets
(2018-01-26)
This thesis is divided into three parts. The first part surveys 1,426 Americans to gauge how technology availability and costs influence public opinion, vehicle ownership decisions, travel, and location choices, and then ...