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Chairs(s):

Bradley Lane, University of Kansas

; Scott Kelley, University of Nevada - Reno

Description:

The development of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology, the proliferation of shared mobility services, and continued innovations in alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) offer potentially dramatic changes for the future of transportation, as cities and regions continue to address a host of long-term environmental, social, and economic issues inherent in the present-day transportation sector. Of long-term importance as these technologies mature is a need to understand the factors encouraging and/or discouraging adoption of these technologies, likely feedbacks that will impact the form of cities and regions, their impact on the sustainability of transportation, and the influence on residential and employer location choices. It is also uncertain how such impacts may change in a post COVID-19 world. Geographers are uniquely situated to how people current use and consider these emerging transportation technologies and services, and the implications of future and more widespread adoption.

This session welcomes all geographers that are considering the role of advanced vehicle technologies and services in the transportation sector. A sample of topics that could contribute to this session include (but are not limited to):

• Charging/driving/purchasing/refueling behavior
• Confluence of AFVs and CAVs
• Education, experience, knowledge, and perception studies
• Environmental impacts, benefits, well-to-wheel analyses
• Equity impacts
• Facility location and network design
• Impacts of COVID-19 on adoption and use
• Impacts on the electricity grid
• Impacts on land use and development
• Integration with Smart Cities
• Interaction with public transportation
• Interaction with bicycling and walking
• Inter-urban and intra-urban comparisons
• Mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) and Transportation Network Companies (TNCs)
• Policies and incentives
• Rural, suburban, or ex-urban studies
• Shared mobility adoption and use
• Spatial analysis of adoption and use
• Sustainability
• Technology choice and tradeoffs
• Time-space and activity-travel based analyses
• Transition trajectories and economics

We welcome submissions from geographers addressing this priority research area using a variety of methods. If there is enough response, we would be delighted to host multiple sessions.

If interested in participating in these sessions, please contact and send your abstract and PIN number to Scott Kelley (scottkelley@unr.edu) and Bradley Lane (bwlane@ku.edu) by October 18th, 2021. This session is sponsored by the Transportation Geography Specialty Group and co-sponsored with the Geographic Information Science and Systems and Urban Geography specialty groups.

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