Changing technologies of “the three revolutions” of transportation portend great impacts on urban mobility. Electric and other alternative-fueled vehicles (AFVs), connected and autonomous vehicle technologies (CAVs), and mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) already promised disruption for urban mobility, an evolution now being further altered by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic creating a new set of incentives and challenges to the diffusion of these technologies.
Much of the research focuses in urban areas that are more conducive to adoption and diffusion of these technologies, with fewer studies of less-dense urban, suburban, or rural areas that may greatly influence their long-term viability. Additionally, the three revolutions are not happening in silos, but instead influence each other as they develop. While some work looks at interaction of CAVs and MaaS, most researched has focused on one technological change at a time. Therefore, there maybe important factors influencing urban mobility yet to be examined.
This paper attempts to address this shortcoming with the results of a survey of residents across the Kansas City, USA metropolitan statistical area. Kansas City represents a particularly rich research site, as it features an ethnically and socio-economically diverse population, is spread across multiple incongruent political jurisdictions, and is an example of an understudied low to mid-density metropolitan area. Respondents are queried on their knowledge, use, and attitudes about EVs, CAVs, and MaaS, and are given different deployment scenarios to consider how they may change their travel behavior. Descriptive and spatial analyses and models are built to estimate factors influencing the likelihood of people to use different deployments of EVs, CAVs, and MaaS together, and estimate changes in travel behavior. The results are discussed in light of their implications for sustainability of these technologies in transportation.
Mots clés : sustainability|travel behavior|electric vehicles|autonomous vehicles|shared mobility
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