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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 ...
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 ...
Changes in freeway level of service with the introduction of autonomous and connected vehicles
(2018-12)
Connected and Autonomous vehicles (CAVs) have risen in popularity in recent years and are expected to bring with them many changes including driver safety, expansion of ridership from people currently unable to drive, and ...
Autonomous vehicle impacts on travel-based activity and activity-based travel
(2021-12-03)
This paper undertakes a deep dive into the kinds of activities that individuals are likely to pursue when freed from the task of driving in the fully automated vehicle (AV) era. We refer to such activities as travel-based ...
Predicting the ownership, use, and environmental impacts of new vehicle technologies with a focus on the relationship between travel behavior and the built environment
(2018-12)
The field of transportation is on the cusp of major change. Innovations in how vehicles operate and are powered have the potential to elicit changes not seen since the introduction of the interstate highway system more ...