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Road Vehicle Automation

  • Presents comprehensively legal, technical, societal and political impacts of road vehicle automation
  • Includes contributions from leading experts in public policy, industry and academia
  • Written by an international panel of authors from the U.S., Japan and Europe
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mobility (LNMOB)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction: The Transportation Research Board’s 2013 Workshop on Road Vehicle Automation

    • Steven E. Shladover, Jane Lappin, Robert P. Denaro, Bryant Walker Smith
    Pages 1-12
  3. Public Sector Activities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Autonomous Vehicles: A Perspective from the California Department of Motor Vehicles

      • Bernard C. Soriano, Stephanie L. Dougherty, Brian G. Soublet, Kristin J. Triepke
      Pages 15-24
    3. Accelerating Road Vehicle Automation

      • Joseph I. Peters
      Pages 25-35
  4. Industrial Research and Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Bosch’s Vision and Roadmap Toward Fully Autonomous Driving

      • Jan Becker, Maria-Belen Aranda Colas, Stefan Nordbruch, Michael Fausten
      Pages 49-59
  5. Societal and Environmental Impacts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
    2. Machine Ethics and Automated Vehicles

      • Noah J. Goodall
      Pages 93-102
    3. Vehicle Automation and Its Potential Impacts on Energy and Emissions

      • Matthew Barth, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Guoyuan Wu
      Pages 103-112
    4. Human Factors of Highly Automated Driving: Results from the EASY and CityMobil Projects

      • Natasha Merat, Hamish A. Jamson, Frank Lai, Oliver Carsten
      Pages 113-125
    5. Key Factors Influencing Autonomous Vehicles’ Energy and Environmental Outcome

      • William R. Morrow III, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Andrew Sturges, Samveg Saxena, Anand Gopal, Dev Millstein et al.
      Pages 127-135
    6. An Analysis of Possible Energy Impacts of Automated Vehicles

      • Austin Brown, Jeffrey Gonder, Brittany Repac
      Pages 137-153
  6. Technical Progress

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
    2. CityMobil2: Challenges and Opportunities of Fully Automated Mobility

      • Adriano Alessandrini, Alessio Cattivera, Carlos Holguin, Daniele Stam
      Pages 169-184

About this book

This contributed volume covers all relevant aspects of road vehicle automation including societal impacts, legal matters, and technology innovation from the perspectives of a multitude of public and private actors. It is based on an expert workshop organized by the Transportation Research Board at Stanford University in July 2013. The target audience primarily comprises academic researchers, but the book may also be of interest to practitioners and professionals. Higher levels of road vehicle automation are considered beneficial for road safety, energy efficiency, productivity, convenience and social inclusion. The necessary key technologies in the fields of object-recognition systems, data processing and infrastructure communication have been consistently developed over the recent years and are mostly available on the market today. However, there is still a need for substantial research and development, e.g. with interactive maps, data processing, functional safety and the fusion of different data sources. Driven by stakeholders in the IT industry, intensive efforts to accelerate the introduction of road vehicle automation are currently underway.

Editors and Affiliations

  • VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH, Berlin, Germany

    Gereon Meyer

  • Center for Automotive Research, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

    Sven Beiker

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eBook USD 84.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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