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The Book on Autonomous Cars & Land-Use #ConnectedandCharged

Will autonomous vehicles create a utopian or dystopian world? This is a question that Lauren Isaac, Manager of Sustainable Transportation – WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff has been thinking about for a couple of years. Her thoughts on the topic can be found on her blog and, as she explains in the above video, a guide she created to help governments plan for the autonomous future.

She recommends that planners:

  • Educate themselves on the state of autonomy
  • Talk to and understand what sort of partnerships could be created with the autonomous technology and transportation companies
  • Update travel demand models to reflect the addition of autonomous cars

Isaac also suggests that policymakers can influence how autonomous vehicles impact land-use in multiple ways, including:

  • Taxing vehicle miles traveled
  • Charging for parking or providing incentives for not parking
  • Providing incentives to encourage ride-sharing

As she alludes to, done correctly, autonomous transportation offers the potential to create better cities.


Note: In the above video, there is an excerpt of GM’s vision from the 1950s showing the future of autonomy. To see the entire, entertaining version, click on the link below.

https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/bcportal.html/currentVideoId/3767696901001/currentChannelId/Most%20Recent.gsaOff.html

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By Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

Ken Pyle is Marketing Director for the Broadband Forum. The mission of this 25+-year-old non-profit “is to unlock the potential for new markets and profitable revenue growth by leveraging new technologies and standards in the home, intelligent small business, and multi-user infrastructure of the broadband network.”

He is also co-founder of Viodi, LLC and Managing Editor of the Viodi View, a publication focused on the rural broadband ecosystem, autonomous vehicles, and electric aviation. He has edited and produced numerous multimedia projects for NTCA, US Telecom and Viodi. Pyle is the producer of Viodi’s Local Content Workshop, the Video Production Crash Course at NAB, as well as ViodiTV. He has been intimately involved in Viodi’s consulting projects and has created processes for clients to use for their PPV and VOD operations, as well authored reports on the independent telco market.

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