Changes in Travel Behavior When Autonomous Vehicles Are Integrated into the Existing Transport System in Urban Cities
A special issue of World Electric Vehicle Journal (ISSN 2032-6653).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 5034
Special Issue Editors
Interests: autonomous vehicles; smart transport; intelligent transport systems; urban mobility; sustainability; travel behavior; micro mobility; mobility as a service; urban planning; transport engineering; transport modeling; transport planning; transport policy; multi-agent transport simulations; pedestrian safety; demand analysis
Interests: urban mobility; autonomous vehicle; park and ride; transport engineering; automotive engineering;transport planning; transport policy; land use optimization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
People’s travel behavior is affected by the improvement of technology, especially in car manufacturing. Mobility has been changing fast due to the fast development of technology in the vehicle industry. One of the outputs of technological development is autonomous vehicles (AVs). The introduction of AVs to the market will affect the behavior of people due to their different characteristics compared to conventional vehicles. In these new circumstances, people’s role when driving is going to change because AVs have full control of the driving process; thus, drivers will be converted into passengers. Stakeholders in the vehicle industry affect the introduction of AVs to the market. In this Special Issue, users as the main actors who are affected by the changes in urban design are the focus of research. Due to the absence of empirical studies on the impact of AVs on the travel behavior, different approaches can be applied to study the behavior of travelers when AVs are on the market.
This Special Issue covers novel contributions that discuss the impacts of any use of AVs on the travel behavior of people in urban cities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the theoretical background, framework, simulations, modeling, prediction, estimation, systematic review, and evaluation. Moreover, the weaknesses of AVs in the transport system are an underdeveloped research area in the literature.
Dr. Jamil Hamadneh
Dr. Jairo Ortega Ortega
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- autonomous vehicles
- sustainable transport mode
- transport modeling
- simulation
- discrete choice modeling
- the value of travel time
- travel behavior
- activity chain optimization
- onboard activities
- stakeholders
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