Planning for Autonomous Vehicles: A People-Centred Approach

Sustainable urban planning can be made possible by successfully incorporating autonomous vehicles

The way people use and move about urban spaces is crucial to sustainable cities of the future. The quality of life for city dwellers in the future will be greatly affected by how they plan their cities.

This course covers four weeks of how autonomous vehicles can be integrated into sustainable urban planning. Its people-centered approach ensures that the systems are adopted and creates eco-friendly urban mobility for tomorrow.

You'll be amazed at the capabilities of self-driving cars beyond what is being promoted. This training material will teach you how to critically assess what the 'automotive revolution’ promises for future cities, and what, based upon the technology, we can actually anticipate.

This course focuses on the fact that clean, sustainable transportation systems must be able to meet the needs of people and be easy to use.

Once you have a good understanding of the potential capabilities and uses of automated vehicles, it's possible to apply that knowledge to common town planning problems.

Mobility requirements, acceptance of new urban planning policies, transport systems, and other key obstacles are all being explored.

EIT Urban Mobility is focused on making cities more livable by changing how people move about and interact with them. EIT Urban Mobility experts will help you improve both the environment and human societies with automated transport.