The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are increasingly a core objective for policy makers, practitioners and citizens. Transport continues to be a core focus of these policy objectives, with Automated and Connected Transport (ACT) featuring as a potential solution to relevant challenges. Yet, there is still a lot to be achieved aside technological advancements. Sustainable Automated and Connected Transport highlights existing gaps and offers evidence-based recommendations for practitioners and policy makers to aid in meeting sustainability goals.
Contributions link documented challenges of Autonomous and Connected Transport with sustainability. Based not only on activities of the international WISE-ACT network, but also on input by external experts, findings of contemporary and ongoing research are summarised to offer evidence-based sustainability recommendations. Sustainable Automated and Connected Transport addresses all three sustainability pillars, namely social, environmental and economic, within a single volume.
Overall, Sustainable Automated and Connected Transport is a valuable source of ACT information for academics, practitioners and policy makers. Such a unified overview is beneficial to developing holistic research methods and global policies for making progress towards the SDGs.
The Transport and Sustainability series addresses the important nexus between transport and sustainability, containing volumes dealing with a wide range of issues relating to transport, its impact in economic, social and environmental spheres and its interaction with other policy sectors.
This volume is a valuable source of ACT information for developing holistic research methods and global policies for making progress towards the SDGs.
PART ONE - ACT INNOVATION
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1. Introduction to Sustainable Automated and Connected Transport;
Nikolas Thomopoulos, Maria Attard, Yoram Shiftan, and Lena Zeisel
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2. Impacts of Partially Connected and Automated Vehicles on Traffic
Flow and Energy Based on Worldwide Experimental Observations in Motorway
Driving; Michail A. Makridis, Konstantinos Mattas, Biagio Ciuffo, and
Anastasios Kouvelas
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3. Evaluating Sustainability in Simulations of Automated and
Connected Transport; Nima Dadashzadeh, Serio Agriesti, Hashmatullah Sadid,
Arnór B. Elvarsson, Claudio Roncoli, and Constantinos Antoniou
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4. Applying Serious Games in Models of Preferences of Shared
Automated Vehicles; Shelly Etzioni, Mor Collins, Eran Ben-Elia, and Yoram
Shiftan
PART TWO - POLICY & REGULATION
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5. Can Driverless Transport Be Sustainable? A Triple Bottom Line
Problematisation; Alexandros Nikitas
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6. Regulatory Frameworks for Testing Automated Vehicles: Comparative
Analysis of National Regulations and Key Aspects for a Sustainable
Implementation; Dominik Schallauer, Aggelos Soteropoulos , Henriette Cornet ,
Wolfram Klar, and Alexander Fürdös
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7. Integrated Urban Transport Planning in the Era of Autonomous
Vehicles; Nikolaos Gavanas
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8. Rescuing Transport from Inequities: How can ACT Contribute to a
More Inclusive Transport System?; Eda Beyazit, Emily Soh, and Karel Martens
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9. Viable Business or Vital Environment? Deconstructing the
Sustainability Concept in Future Mobility Entrepreneurship; Graham Parkhurst,
Pablo Cabanelas, and Daniela Paddeu
Chapter
10. Conclusions: Working towards a Sustainable ACT; Maria Attard,
Nikolas Thomopoulos, and Yoram Shiftan
Nikolas Thomopoulos is Associate Professor and Institute for Sustainability Programme Co-Leader for Sustainable Transport & Mobility at the University of Surrey.
Maria Attard is Head of Geography and Director of the Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the University of Malta.
Yoram Shiftan is Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and Head of the Israel Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC).
