Transportation Policy Options: New Mobility Services and Autonomous Vehicles
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2019-09
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University of Oregon
Zusammenfassung
The cities of Eugene and Gresham want policy recommendations to prepare for the future of new mobility services and autonomous vehicles (AVs). Both cities hope to integrate these new policies into their Transportation System Plans (TSPs).
This report provides practical new mobility policy options for each city to consider from eight priority topics: safety, equity, land use, innovation, environmental impact, congestion and vehicle miles traveled (VMT), active transportation, and data. Policy recommendations were created based on our research findings that included a literature review, analysis of other cities’ TSPs, and interviews we conducted with transportation professionals across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. The data from all three sources helped inform new mobility best practices presented in this report.
The literature pointed mostly to concerns with uncertainty and possible unintended consequences of new mobility services and AVs. Some examples include minimal
improvements to carbon emissions, public health concerns, and major infrastructure changes needed to accommodate the future of transportation. The findings from our interviews suggest that data requirements and privacy, equity, safety, land use, and innovation were
the topics of highest priority in the field. Consequently, we developed more policy recommendations for those areas of interest. We found that many policies nationwide are in pilot stages and have the potential to be changed at any moment. Review of other cities’ TSPs also helped collect information on the feasibility and practical implementation of new
mobility policies. While the original intent was to develop unique policy recommendations for each city, we found in our research that new mobility policies that are currently considered
best practice are applicable to all cities of different sizes and contexts. Thus, most of our policy recommendations apply to both Gresham and Eugene with some added specifications for each city.
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48 pages