Automated vehicles and transport system organization - Shifting boundaries, mandates and responsibilities

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are likely to transform urban mobility. By focusing on transport systemic dynamics, organizational structures, and user practices, we present a conceptual framework that has four AV scenarios and eight non-mutually exclusive pathways for potential AV introduction. The complexity and multiplicity of future system configurations underscores that we cannot take for granted how new technologies will be provided, used and regulated. Current mobility business models, legal frameworks, land-use practices, and enforcement policies must be updated. Recognizing the political nature of AV integration, system stakeholders must work actively to ensure access to AV mobility without exacerbating social inequities, climate emissions, excessive land-use, and economic inefficiency.