Autonomous vehicles pave the way to more sustainable transportation. Their driverless capability allows for emerging mobility patterns that were not possible before. The older and younger population that cannot legally drive can gain access to affordable transportation and can engage in socially rewarding activities. The private sector can also provide new mobility services that exploit autonomous vehicles. These shifts in the supply and demand of transportation may affect dynamics of congestion and emission levels in large cities. Polices that aim to improve transportation sustainability need to carefully account for the impacts of driving automation, especially when automation leads to induced demand. In this Special Issue, we invite the submission of research papers that specifically address transportation sustainability in the advent of autonomous vehicles and propose sustainable alternatives for the existing demand management and traffic control polices. The scope of this Special Issue is to cover state-of-the-art contributions on data analysis, model development, policy design, and system optimization.
\nTopics of interest with a general focus on transportation sustainability include but are not limited to:\u00a0Emerging mobility services with autonomous vehicles;\u00a0Emissions models for autonomous vehicles;\u00a0Impacts of autonomous vehicles on social interactions;\u00a0Route choice of autonomous vehicles;\u00a0Land-use planning in the autonomous vehicle era;\u00a0Public and private transportation integration with autonomous vehicles;\u00a0Autonomous ridesharing and demand-responsive systems;\u00a0Network models of autonomous vehicles;\u00a0Autonomous freight transportation;\u00a0Parking management for autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","topic":[642,192,555,430,686,576,597,598,573,648,459,650,533,716,534,637,497,498,706,638,284,683],"country":[55],"nsj_language":[57],"class_list":["post-1464","call_for_papers","type-call_for_papers","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","topic-air-pollution","topic-artificial-intelligence","topic-automation","topic-big-data","topic-computing-systems","topic-data-management","topic-data-sensing-and-analysis","topic-decision-support-systems","topic-design-computing-systems","topic-environmental-pollution","topic-green-mobility","topic-green-policies","topic-land-use","topic-management","topic-mobility","topic-networks","topic-service-innovation","topic-services","topic-social-impact","topic-social-sustainability","topic-sustainable-development","topic-transports","country-switzerland","nsj_language-english"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n