Abstract
Autonomous vehicles (AV) have the potential to disrupt the entire transport industry. AV may bring many opportunities as for example reduction of road accidents, less congestion on the roads, and a lower number of vehicles that are better utilized. Full AV also brings new social element as they enable mobility for all. In addition, the use of digital technologies in combination with AV introduces new business models in transportation, where the lines between car ownership, rental, and lease modes are more and more blurred. To explore the potential of AV in a smart city context, the AV Living Lab was created on the premises of BTC City in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2017. The AV Living lab was created to test and to learn about real-life solutions for implementation of AV. The underlying concept is BTC City as a Living lab innovation ecosystem, where the latest advanced technologies, business models, and services are tested with real users, real cars, on real roads over the real interactions in a cross-industry environment. In this paper, we describe the AV Living Lab concept and provide details of a specific use case—a large-scale pilot demonstration of AV and future mobility solutions. During the event, users participated in a survey and expressed their attitudes towards autonomous mobility. The results offer the first insights into the readiness of citizens for AV implementation and directs future actions needed for faster adoption of AV and future mobility solutions.
Highlights
Autonomous vehicles (AV) have the potential to fundamentally disrupt and change current mobility systems [1,2,3]
As an example of demonstration activities, we present the TEN-T Days event that was co-organized by the European Commission, BTC and autonomous vehicles (AV) Living Lab [41] for the occasion of the official opening of the AV Living Lab
We presented the case of the AV Living Lab as a unique innovation ecosystem for development and promotion of future autonomous mobility solutions in Slovenia
Summary
Autonomous vehicles (AV) have the potential to fundamentally disrupt and change current mobility systems [1,2,3]. AV are associated with a variety of possible positive societal impacts. It is estimated that change of ownership models will result in a substantial reduction of the number of total vehicles [1,4,7,9,11]. There is expected to be less congestion on the roads [1,12]. These estimations are suggesting a very positive impact of AV on future mobility, the overall impact of AV has yet to be researched [6]
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