Autonomous vehicle policies with equity implications: Patterns and gaps

Emory, Katie; Douma, Frank; Cao, Jason

doi:10.1016/j.trip.2021.100521

Cited by 27 publications

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“…This ensures that the mobility people of this category do not have to depend on family members and caregivers alone, as door-to-door automated transportation services can now be deployed to meet their mobility needs. The existence of a gap in interventions for equitable mobility provisioning for disadvantaged groups was elaborated in [24], whose study investigated autonomous vehicle policies and how they affect equity amongst disadvantaged groups. Although it highlighted that autonomous vehicles had the potential to either improve or harm equity for disadvantaged groups, it agreed with the need to have policies that ensure equitable outcomes for under-represented populations.…”

Section: Physical Inclusive Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Generally, autonomous vehicles have to be able to provide succor for people with physical disabilities from pain points by providing a custom design that complies with the specific needs of people with different physical disabilities. In [24] it is suggested that such a provision could lead to a higher price in cost of the vehicles due to the customization needed to satisfy a wider audience.…”

Section: Physical Inclusive Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For effective mobility, autonomous vehicles can also serve as a platform for easy access to transport. The relationship between physical and mentally challenged individuals concerning how autonomous vehicles can serve a purpose was further discussed by [24], who proposed that shared automated vehicles could increase the accessibility levels for people with physical and sensory disabilities, so long as certain bottlenecks such as identification of appropriate boarding spots with minimal obstacles, price of the service can be handled. A further argument that justifies the need for an autonomous vehicle solution for the mentally and visually impaired is highlighted by [25] who determined that paratransit services utilizing public facilities for people with disabilities have proven to be expensive and difficult to coordinate.…”

Section: Cognitive and Visually Impaired Inclusive Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Autonomous Vehicles: Theoretical and Practical Challenges for Efficient and Inclusive Transport in Africa

ofoegbu

2022

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Section: Physical Inclusive Challengesmentioning

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Section: Cognitive and Visually Impaired Inclusive Challengesmentioning

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2022

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“…At the forefront of a full automation mobility environment, extensive research has been carried out to explore the potential implications brought by AVs from a broad range of perspectives [10,11]. The results reported are mixed.…”

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Public Acceptance towards Emerging Autonomous Vehicle Technology: A Bibliometric Research

Tan

Lau

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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In the current challenging and competitive dynamic business world today, automotive companies have been rapidly developing and promoting autonomous vehicles (AVs), which aim to reduce crashes, energy consumption, pollution, and congestion and increase transport accessibility. To ensure the successful adoption of AVs, an increasing number of studies have been conducted to understand public acceptance. This paper used the bibliometric technique to understand the distribution, emerging trend, and the research cluster in the context of AV technology acceptance through knowledge mapping. The Web of Science database was used to retrieve 401 scientific articles from 2000 to June 2022. The findings reported that the previous studies mainly focused on the research clusters related to the domains of attitude, trust, technology, impact, and models. Finally, this study added to the existing body of literature by providing the current knowledge landscape to guide the future research.

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“…The development of self-driving (autonomous) vehicles (AVs) and the outpouring of funds to support them has been propelled by many factors, one of which is undoubtedly improved road safety ( 1 ). Since the early development years, researchers and AV developers focused on developing the algorithms used by the AV to navigate complex roads and interact with other road users safely ( 2 ).…”

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Active Road User Interactions With Autonomous Vehicles: Proactive Safety Assessment

Alozi

Hussein

2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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This study aims to conduct a thorough assessment of pedestrian and cyclist safety in autonomous vehicle (AV) environments. To that end, the study utilized AV sensor data of over 1,500 driving hours from five sources in Canada, the United States, and Singapore. The sensor data were used to extract conflicts between AVs and active road users. The conflicts were then processed to develop accurate estimates of AV collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists based on the extreme value theory. Further in-depth assessments were conducted on the identified conflicts, by type and location, to highlight potential issues leading to risky conflicts. The results showed that the total number of predicted AV collisions involving active road users was 2.17 collisions per million AV kilometers travelled. Collisions involving pedestrians were slightly higher than those involving cyclists. Also, collisions in clear weather conditions slightly exceeded collisions in adverse weather conditions, although the difference was not statistically significant. The relative risk of collisions was developed for both pedestrian and cyclist conflicts per AV movement type. The results showed that for pedestrians, interactions with right-turning AVs are the riskiest, while interactions with left-turning AVs are the riskiest for cyclists. A thorough analysis of conflicts revealed many issues, including a higher tendency for pedestrian violations when interacting with AVs, aggressive AV behavior (particularly when interacting with pedestrians while making a right turn), AVs struggling to predict the path of cyclists (mainly because of cyclist violations), and AVs failing to interpret pedestrian intentions in some cases.

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Autonomous vehicle policies with equity implications: Patterns and gaps

Cited by 27 publications

References 16 publications

Autonomous Vehicles: Theoretical and Practical Challenges for Efficient and Inclusive Transport in Africa

Autonomous Vehicles: Theoretical and Practical Challenges for Efficient and Inclusive Transport in Africa

Public Acceptance towards Emerging Autonomous Vehicle Technology: A Bibliometric Research

Active Road User Interactions With Autonomous Vehicles: Proactive Safety Assessment

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