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An ongoing study sponsored by the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan takes the position that the transportation system should enable individuals to meet their basic access needs safely and in a manner consistent with human health and ecosystem sustainability within and between generations. This chapter describes the history of road transportation in the United States and the legacy of infrastructure investments in an automobile-oriented culture. This history is the foundation for applications of forthcoming robotics and communications technologies that support vehicle automation. A research team is engaged in drafting a roadmap that includes the adoption of automated vehicles as a critical element on a path to sustainable mobility in the United States. Some of the conjectures and apparent conclusions in this chapter are intended to help pose questions for our panel of experts.
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Underwood, S.E. (2014). Disruptive Innovation on the Path to Sustainable Mobility: Creating a Roadmap for Road Transportation in the United States. In: Meyer, G., Beiker, S. (eds) Road Vehicle Automation. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05990-7_14
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