Urban mobility system upgrade : how shared self-driving cars could change city traffic.

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International Transport Forum ITF
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Abstract

This report examines the changes that might result from the large-scale uptake of a shared and self-driving fleet of vehicles in a mid-sized European city. The study explores two different self-driving vehicle concepts, for which we have coined the terms 'TaxiBot' and 'AutoVot'. TaxiBots are self-driving cars that can be shared simultaneously by several passengers. AutoVots pick-up and drop-off single passengers sequentially. We had two premises for this study: First, the urban mobility system upgrade with a fleet of TaxiBots and AutoVots should deliver the same trips as today in terms of origin, destination and timing. Second, it should also replace all car and bus trips. The report looks at impacts on car fleet size, volume of travel and parking requirements over two different time scales: a 24-hour average and for peak hours only. (Author/publisher)

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20150643 ST [electronic version only]
Source

Paris, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD / International Transport Forum ITF, 2015, 34 p., 8 ref.; Corporate Partnership Board Report

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