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Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) technology offers a potential solution to massive road transport issues in the areas of safety, mobility, and the environment. For road transport, the CAV technology promises to reduce traffic congestion, increase road capacity, enhance traffic stability, and reduce vehicle emissions. However, the path to the full implementation or a high market penetration of CAVs has some critical challenges. This chapter provides a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities associated with CAVs. These include congestion reduction, road safety improvement, environment protection, societal productivity, and economic benefits. Further, this chapter discusses five major challenges, namely: transition period, economic issues, privacy and security issues, legislative issues, and ethical issues that need to be addressed before the wide scale deployment of CAVs.
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Backward-looking responsibility is the responsibility that people can have for something that has occurred in the past either because of them or something they allowed to happen.
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Forward-looking responsibility is the responsibility that people can have to prevent something to happen in the near or distant future.
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This research was partially funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) through Dr Zuduo Zheng’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA; DE160100449).
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Sharma, A., Zheng, Z. (2021). Connected and Automated Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges for Transportation Systems, Smart Cities, and Societies. In: Wang, B.T., Wang, C.M. (eds) Automating Cities. Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8670-5_11
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