Planning for Cars That Drive Themselves: Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Regional Transportation Plans, and Autonomous Vehicles
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Through a review of long-range transportation plans and interviews with planners, this article examines how large metropolitan planning organizations are preparing for autonomous vehicles. In just a few years, the prospect of commercially available self-driving cars and trucks has gone from a futurist fantasy to a likely near-term reality. However, uncertainties about the new technology and its relationship to daily investment decisions have kept mention of self-driving cars out of nearly all long-range transportation plans. Nevertheless, interviewees are keeping a close watch on the new technology and actively looking to understand and plan for future impacts.
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Private homes could convert garages into living or storage space, and governments and urban planners could aspire to higher housing densities.
“As a consequence, private homes could convert garages into living or storage space, and governments and urban planners could therefore aspire to higher housing densities (Guerra, 2016, p. 215).”
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- Authors
- Guerra, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Guerra, Erick
- ORCID
- Guerra, Erick
- Venue
- Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-11-02
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 210-224
- ISSN
- 0739-456X (ISSN-L)
- 1552-6577
- OpenAlex
- W2334963570
- Cited by
- 185
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 29 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 6
- FWCI
- 14.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Planning Education and Research (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Pennsylvania
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Transportation Systems and Logistics
- Keywords
- autonomous vehicles, long-range transportation planning, metropolitan planning organizations, transportation planning, technological uncertainty, investment decision-making
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