Automated and autonomous spatial mobilities / Aharon Kellerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kellerman, Aharon, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Transport, Mobilities and Spatial Change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personal rapid transit.

Automated vehicles--Social aspects.

Automated vehicles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2018.

Summary:

In this ground-breaking book Aharon Kellerman explores a rapidly developing aspect of contemporary life: automated and autonomous spatial mobilities and their social and urban implications. Distinguishing between automation, or self-doing, and autonomy, or self-government, at both the conceptual and practical levels, this book also draws a distinction between spatial mobility and automated spatial mobility. Automation processes for transportation and communications media and their controls are discussed in light of these differences. Presenting a wide-ranging discussion on autonomous vehicle (AV) development and its future adoption, as well as of social and spatial dimensions of the AV-age, this highly topical book points to the emergence of autonomously mobile cities and the new mobility landscapes they will present. Academics, as well as practitioners, in the fields of mobility, transportation, urban planning, geography and sociology will find this an essential read.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

1. Spatial mobility, automation, and autonomy

2. Automated and autonomous self-moving/mobility

3. Automated and autonomous traffic control

4. Automated and autonomous public transportation

5. Automated and autonomous information transmission

6. Autonomous vehicles (AVs)

7. The geography of intelligent transport and communications

8. Summary and conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78643-849-6