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The urban governance of autonomous vehicles – In love with AVs or critical sustainability risks to future mobility transitions
- Source :
- Grinsted, T S, Christensen, T H, Freudendal-Pedersen, M, Friis, F & Hartmann-Petersen, K 2022, ' The Urban Governance of Automated Vehicles – In love with AVs or critical sustainability risks to future mobility transitions ', Cities, vol. 120, 103504 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103504
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2022.
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Abstract
- Increasingly guided by the use of ICT, the flow of humans and materials, smart cities and autonomous mobility amalgamate into a game changer in urban planning. This paper critically explores the role of autonomous (driverless) vehicles in plans for urban futures. By looking into the urban plans of 10 European capitals, we investigate the anticipated promises and hazards of autonomous vehicles. Theoretically, the paper draws upon critical urban mobilities studies that invite interlinking carbon reduction, smart cities and mobility planning. By examining these plans, the paper critically evaluates current urban planning for autonomous vehicles by asking whether one can identify any links to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of sustainable cities and communities. A practice-based view on automation is then suggested as a pathway to promote a thorough sustainable mobility transition. It is concluded that none of the plans of the 10 capitals studied require AVs to integrate with public means of transport or to be fuelled by renewable energy sources. Hence, AVs are likely to individualise and intensify the existing automobility regime further and emissions are likely to increase, according to the comparative urban analysis. We therefore conclude that urban policy-making needs to contest the existing techno-centric conception of autonomous vehicles if these are to support the sustainable development goals of cities.
- Subjects :
- Sustainable development
Sociology and Political Science
Mobilities
Autonomous vehicles
Sustainable mobilities paradigm
Development
CONTEST
Urban Studies
Urban planning
Information and Communications Technology
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
Urban governance
Sustainability
Climate change
Business
Sustainable development goals of cities
Environmental planning
Futures contract
Smart cities
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02642751
- Volume :
- 120
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cities
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e9b378ad26eff8fd655fbbd53c18c06a