1. Impact of vehicle automation and electric propulsion on production costs for mobility services worldwide
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Andrea Vanesa Papu Carrone, Krishna Murthy Gurumurthy, Prawira Fajarindra Belgiawan, Katarzyna Anna Marczuk, Jai Malik, Emilio Frazzoli, Kay W. Axhausen, Reza Ashari Nasution, Shlomo Bekhor, Scott Le Vine, Lewis Fulton, Mengmeng Zhang, Junia Compostella, Ryosuke Abe, Yoram Shiftan, Yale Z. Wong, Kara M. Kockelman, Alejandro Tirachini, Johannes Willem Joubert, Felix Becker, Lars Kröger, Davi Guggisberg Bicudo, Patrick M. Bösch, Jeppe Rich, Danqi Shen, Henrik Becker, and David A. Hensher
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Total cost ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Aerospace Engineering ,Transportation ,02 engineering and technology ,Cost structures ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Business model ,Automated vehicles Driverless vehicles Taxi Cost structures International comparison Market segments ,Personenverkehr ,Market segmentation ,Automated vehicles ,Driverless vehicles ,Taxi ,International comparison ,Market segments ,0502 economics and business ,Production (economics) ,021108 energy ,Productivity ,Industrial organization ,Civil and Structural Engineering ,050210 logistics & transportation ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Institut für Verkehrsforschung ,Automation ,SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities ,Electrically powered spacecraft propulsion ,Key (cryptography) ,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ,Business - Abstract
Automated driving technology along with electric propulsion are widely expected to fundamentally change our transport systems. They may not only allow a more productive use of travel time, but will likely trigger completely new business models in the mobility market. A key determinant of the future prospects of both existing and new mobility services will be their production costs. Hence, in this research the production costs of various transport modes both today and in an automated-electric future are analyzed. To account for different local contexts, the study is conducted for 17 cities across the globe. The results indicate that high-income countries will benefit the most from vehicle automation, while only smaller changes can be expected in lower-income countries. This is due to the different relative contribution of labor cost to the total cost of current taxi and bus operations. In a likely final state, transportation costs will be largely decoupled from a country’s income level, which will favor productivity in higher-income locations. While this research provides valuable first insights into potential future developments, the underlying assumptions will need to be updated as better information becomes available., Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 138, ISSN:0965-8564, ISSN:1879-2375
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- 2020
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