Automated Vehicles, Urban Robots and Drones: Three Elements of the Automated City

Loke, Seng W.; Rakotonirainy, Andry

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82318-4_3

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“…In principle, the use of delivery robots in dense urban centers would also benefit from high customer density, with more potential customers living within the area served by a delivery hub (Figliozzi and Jennings, 2020). However, further developments in AI are needed before the deployment of robots in high-density urban centers can be realistically considered (Loke and Rakotonirainy, 2021;Mavrogiannis et al, 2022). Low-density footpaths such as those available in MK make it possible for people to make their way around robots when they stop, as they often do when faced with an uncertain or unexpected situation.…”

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Humans, robots and artificial intelligences reconfiguring urban life in a crisis

Valdez

Cook

2023

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Autonomous urban robots were introduced in Milton Keynes (MK), UK, in 2018 to automate on-demand grocery delivery. Two years later the COVID-19 pandemic rendered routine activities such as delivering groceries or visiting the supermarket unexpectedly unsafe for humans. The ensuing disruption provided opportunities to investigate the potentialities of robotic and autonomous systems to provide cities with resources for coping with unexpected situations such as pandemics, heatwaves and blizzards and ultimately to transform and reinforce urban flows, leading to new ways of living in the city that arise as a result of emerging human-robot constellations. The crisis accelerated the ongoing transformation in human-robot relationships and made its tensions and potentials visible. The case of MK suggests that the cognitive capabilities of urban AIs are not to be found exclusively in computer bits and human neurons but arise from encounters and contexts, with institutions, policies, practices and even the materiality of the city itself being crucial to the emergence of urban AI.

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Humans, robots and artificial intelligences reconfiguring urban life in a crisis

Valdez

Cook

2023

Front. Sustain. Cities

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“…The communication feature in AVs is not just to exchange information but to achieve a common goal, such as safety and efficiency. In this case, the phrase "cooperative automated vehicles" is the preferable name for the technology [28]. Above and beyond, a briefing from the European Parliamentary Research Service defines the three terms related to automation and connectivity as follows [29]:…”

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The Emergence of Automated Vehicles and their Potential Implications for Urban Mobility: A Review of the Literature and Synthesis of Use Cases

Beza¹,

Koutra²,

John³

et al. 2022

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Automated vehicles (AVs), which are expected to enter the market within the near future, represent the current frontiers in mobility and urban planning. AVs are assumed to bring substantial benefits to cities in many aspects. The present study attempts to investigate this broad assumption by conducting a literature review on the possible implications of AVs in cities as well as synthesizing the current state of practice of AV pilots to detect trends in their deployment. In this paper, literature findings on AVs’ implication on vehicle ownership, mobility, land use as well thirteen uses cases were synthesized to capture the big picture of them in cities. The findings showed that, in the AV pilots, the operation of AVs is limited to routes stretching less than 3.5km and an operation speed of less than 18km/h; low speed has been one of the main concerns of the participating passengers to use them for daily trips. The results also revealed that although shared AVs are expected in urban mobility, private ownership will stay competitive since vehicle ownership has been a socio-cultural identity in the history of automobiles. The findings also underlined that the potential influence of AVs on active mobility is still unclear as the AVs have not been introduced on a larger scale. Regarding AVs’ impact on land use, their introduction results in the effective use of space, but they will cause suburbanization in the long term.

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Regulatory Frameworks for Testing Automated Vehicles: Comparative Analysis of National Regulations and Key Aspects for a Sustainable Implementation

Schallauer,

Soteropoulos,

Cornet

et al. 2024

Sustainable Automated and Connected Transport

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Automated Vehicles, Urban Robots and Drones: Three Elements of the Automated City

Cited by 4 publications

References 64 publications

Humans, robots and artificial intelligences reconfiguring urban life in a crisis

Humans, robots and artificial intelligences reconfiguring urban life in a crisis

The Emergence of Automated Vehicles and their Potential Implications for Urban Mobility: A Review of the Literature and Synthesis of Use Cases

Regulatory Frameworks for Testing Automated Vehicles: Comparative Analysis of National Regulations and Key Aspects for a Sustainable Implementation

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