The End of Automobile Dependence: A Troubling Prognosis?
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This book has presented a case that automobile dependence is ending. It rose, it peaked, and it is now in decline. This represents the fall of one of the most transformative urban planning paradigms the world has ever seen, certainly of the twentieth century. It suggests that this is happening because of a combination of limits due to space and time as well as resources like oil, but most importantly because of economic and cultural change that is favoring more-intensive modes of transportation (rail, cycling, and walking) that thrive, along with the rapidly growing people-intensive economy, in areas with more intensive land use. In other words, these cultural and economic changes are happening in walking and transit city fabrics, but not in automobile city fabrics.
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Policy and planning aspects discussed in urban and transport planning and urban studies literatures without a specific focus on AVs are also relevant to the AV context.
“The policy and planning aspects discussed in the urban and transport planning and urban studies literatures without a specific focus on AVs are also relevant to the AV context (Firnkorn & Müller, 2015; Newman & Kenworthy, 2015).”
From Understanding autonomous vehicles: A systematic literature review on capability, impact, planning and policy (2019) · cites this paper as Newman & Kenworthy, 2015
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Faisal, A., Yigitcanlar, T., Kamruzzaman, M., & Currie, G. (2019) · Journal of Transport and Land Use · doi:10.5198/jtlu.2019.1405 · Cited by 427 · see citing works
“The policy and planning aspects discussed in the urban and transport planning and urban studies literatures without a specific focus on AVs are also relevant to the AV context (Firnkorn & Müller, 2015; Newman & Kenworthy, 2015).”
BackgroundMilovanoff, A., Minet, L., Cheah, L., Posen, I. D., MacLean, H. L., & Balasubramanian, R. (2021) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c06671 · Cited by 50 · see citing works
- Authors
- Newman, P., & Kenworthy, J.
- Venue
- The End of Automobile Dependence
- Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 201-226
- OpenAlex
- W2377674442
- Cited by
- 78
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 36.94
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Island Press/Center for Resource Economics eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Keywords
- car dependence, urban planning, transport modes, rail transit, cycling, walking, land use intensity, oil dependence, economic change, cultural change, urban form
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