Helping Public Agencies Assess how Different Regulatory Structures for Shared Automated Vehicle Services Could Affect Transportation Access, Environmental Sustainability, and Profitability: Equity and Transportation System Implications of Shared Autonomous Vehicle Deployment

Shared automated vehicles (AVs) hold great promise for improving transportation access in urban centers (due to improved operational efficiency) while drastically reducing transportation-related energy consumption and air pollution. This project develops a replicable, open, deployable model that can (1) identify areas with high concentrations of low-income or minority populations, or both within a region and (2) conduct a scenario analysis to help public agencies assess how regulatory requirements for shared AV services (e.g., number of handicap accessible vehicles and fleet size) could impact energy use, travel demand (i.e., vehicle miles traveled), average wait times across different population groups, and AV operator profit.

• Record URL:
  https://ppms.cit.cmu.edu/projects/detail/361

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $91753
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747111

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Mobility21 National USDOT UTC for Mobility of Goods and People
  Pittsburgh, PA  United States  15213

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Center Program
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• Managing Organizations:

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Mobility21 National USDOT UTC for Mobility of Goods and People
  Pittsburgh, PA  United States  15213
• Project Managers:

  Kline, Robin

• Performing Organizations:

  Carnegie Mellon University

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• Principal Investigators:

  Harper, Corey

• Start Date: 20210701
• Expected Completion Date: 20220630
• Actual Completion Date: 20220729
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Access; Autonomous vehicles; Energy consumption; Equity (Justice); Government agencies; Mathematical models; Profitability; Regulation; Sustainable transportation; Travel demand management; Urban areas; Vehicle sharing; Waiting time
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01776451
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National University Transportation Center for Improving Mobility (Mobility21)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747111
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 13 2021 12:04PM