AVENUE21. Planning and Policy Considerations for an Age of Automated Mobility

Emilia M. Bruck and Aggelos Soteropoulos reflect on the importance of the local context when classifying and estimating the effects of different forms of automated mobility. Aggelos Soteropoulos analyses how different street spaces align with technological requirements of automated mobility, creating a suitability framework for road spaces in the Greater Vienna region. Bert Leerkamp, Aggelos Soteropoulos and Martin Berger describe how automated delivery robots could be contextualized in terms of solving last-mile problems and discuss what implications might lie ahead for urban planning. The authors identify the possible implications of automated mobility for mobility interfaces and explore how public spaces could be transformed. Mathias Mitteregger discusses how the desire for road safety affects public spaces and how automated mobility influences this discourse. Steven Fleming argues for a radical shift in cities towards a highly improved cycling infrastructure eradicating the need for automated mobility. Ian Banerjee and Tomoyuki Furutani show where automated mobility could help tackle pressing issues in rural Japan. Looking at the mistakes made in building a car-centric environment in the past, Mathias Mitteregger and Aggelos Soteropoulos identify future areas of urban transformation as a result of a lower demand for car-centric infrastructures and businesses. Alexander Hamedinger contextualizes the manifold paths towards an automated future with regard to governance and describes how governance concepts might need to adapt in the future. Andrea Stickler looks at local projects aiming at a transformation of mobility practices and reflects on implications for automated transport. Ian Banerjee, Peraphan Jittrapirom and Jens S. Dangschat show how continuous digitalization in cities might affect possible uses and implementations of CAVs and their accompanying systems.