TY - JOUR
T1 - Infrastructure requirement for autonomous vehicle integration for future urban and suburban roads – Current practice and a case study of Melbourne, Australia
AU - Manivasakan, Hesavar
AU - Kalra, Riddhi
AU - O'Hern, Steve
AU - Fang, Yihai
AU - Xi, Yinfei
AU - Zheng, Nan
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors feel obliged to colleagues at the Institute of Transport Studies of Monash University for their remarks on this work. Furthermore, they are grateful for the time spent by the reviewers for helping improve this work. The authors would also like to thank the Engineering consultancies (SMEC, Jacobs, Arcadis and Aurecon Group) for assiting and providing input for the evaluation framework. This research is part of the MSRI1001004 project funded by Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Insititute.
Funding Information:
The authors feel obliged to colleagues at the Institute of Transport Studies of Monash University for their remarks on this work. Furthermore, they are grateful for the time spent by the reviewers for helping improve this work. The authors would also like to thank the Engineering consultancies (SMEC, Jacobs, Arcadis and Aurecon Group) for assiting and providing input for the evaluation framework. This research is part of the MSRI1001004 project funded by Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Insititute.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Autonomous vehicle technology and its enabled mobility services are evolving at a more rapid pace than the understanding of the infrastructure required for them to be efficiently and safely implemented. This has not been systematically investigated in literature or practice. This research makes exploratory efforts to investigate this research area by examining and evaluating the infrastructure requirements needed to support autonomous vehicles. It formulates an infrastructure change guideline and an evaluation framework to prioritise the safety, efficiency and accessibility when integrating autonomous vehicles alongside conventional vehicles and multimodal users such as public transport commuters and pedestrians. The case study results show that for different type of regions, being a regional commercial and transportation hub in a residential area and a regional CBD street in a multimodal and spatially limited area, different arrangement and trade-offs can be made. Promisingly, the proposed guideline and framework work sufficiently, and serve as a first step towards a more systematic guideline for autonomous vehicle integration. The outcome of the research consists of a review of approaches that can guide urban planners and other users to understand and prioritise the implementation of autonomous vehicles.
AB - Autonomous vehicle technology and its enabled mobility services are evolving at a more rapid pace than the understanding of the infrastructure required for them to be efficiently and safely implemented. This has not been systematically investigated in literature or practice. This research makes exploratory efforts to investigate this research area by examining and evaluating the infrastructure requirements needed to support autonomous vehicles. It formulates an infrastructure change guideline and an evaluation framework to prioritise the safety, efficiency and accessibility when integrating autonomous vehicles alongside conventional vehicles and multimodal users such as public transport commuters and pedestrians. The case study results show that for different type of regions, being a regional commercial and transportation hub in a residential area and a regional CBD street in a multimodal and spatially limited area, different arrangement and trade-offs can be made. Promisingly, the proposed guideline and framework work sufficiently, and serve as a first step towards a more systematic guideline for autonomous vehicle integration. The outcome of the research consists of a review of approaches that can guide urban planners and other users to understand and prioritise the implementation of autonomous vehicles.
KW - Autonomous vehicle
KW - Design guideline and embracement strategy
KW - Evaluation framework
KW - Infrastructure change
KW - Melbourne case study
KW - Practice review
U2 - 10.1016/j.tra.2021.07.012
DO - 10.1016/j.tra.2021.07.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85112745208
SN - 0965-8564
VL - 152
SP - 36
EP - 53
JO - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
JF - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
ER -
