Witness Testimony: U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation & Infastructure, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Hearing: The Road Ahead for Automated Vehicles
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2022-02-02
Authors
Larco, Nico
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Chair Norton, Ranking Member Davis, and Subcommittee Members, thank you for this
opportunity to testify on the future of automated vehicles and the impacts they could have on
communities throughout the country.
My name is Nico Larco and I am a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design as well as the
Director of the Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon. Urbanism Next is a crossdisciplinary
center focused on understanding the impacts that emerging technologies such as
automated vehicles (AVs), new mobility, and e-commerce are having and will continue to have
on communities. Our focus is not on the mechanics of the technologies, but rather on their
impacts on land use, urban design, building design, transportation, and real estate, and why
these impacts matter for equity, health, safety, the environment, and the economy. We work
extensively on these topics with cities and states throughout the country, as well as with private
sector partners who are developing or deploying emerging technologies, professional
organizations, other research organizations, and foundations. We have found a tremendous
interest, across all these organizations, in understanding AVs’ impacts and how to shape the
deployment of emerging technologies to help achieve equity, sustainability, and economic
goals.
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13 pages
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transportation impacts, parking, transit