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JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 210-224Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X15613591
Keywords
autonomous vehicles; long-range planning; self-driving cars; regional transportation planning; metropolitan planning
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- Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation, a U.S. Department of Transportation University Research Center
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Through a review of long-range transportation plans and interviews with planners, this article examines how large metropolitan planning organizations are preparing for autonomous vehicles. In just a few years, the prospect of commercially available self-driving cars and trucks has gone from a futurist fantasy to a likely near-term reality. However, uncertainties about the new technology and its relationship to daily investment decisions have kept mention of self-driving cars out of nearly all long-range transportation plans. Nevertheless, interviewees are keeping a close watch on the new technology and actively looking to understand and plan for future impacts.
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