SCC-Planning: Urbanism Next Network Planning Grant

自动驾驶汽车(AVs)是不久的将来的现实，自动驾驶汽车对城市发展和城市形态的影响，尽管可能广泛和戏剧性地存在，但还没有被很好地理解。预计交通的便利性和成本、交通、停车使用和道路需求的作用和未来的变化将对街道设计、开发密度、土地利用和城市扩张产生巨大的次要影响。这些变化将对我们国家产生深远影响。虽然已经有大量关于AVS技术方面的研究，但缺乏对其对城市发展、形态和设计的次要影响或潜在机会和对生活质量的意想不到的后果的系统探索，包括重大的公平和劳动力市场影响。汽车的引入对城市发展以及相关的经济、社会和环境问题造成的破坏，有可能与一个世纪前汽车引入造成的破坏不相上下。城市主义下一个规划基金将利用学术、公共和私营部门的国家专家的多学科集合来定义和了解自动驾驶系统的兴起将如何广泛影响城市，而不仅仅是技术需求或主要的交通影响。这项规划补助金将汇集来自工程学、城市设计、城市规划、经济学、房地产、劳动经济学和建筑学的合作者，以促进我们对AVS对社会的影响的了解，并促进国家的健康、繁荣和福祉。在整个赠款过程中，研究团队将吸收来自不同学科的广泛的全国学者社区，以及俄勒冈州波特兰地区不同的、多部门的从业者群体。规划活动包括每月举行网上会议；创建有针对性的博客和网上信息交流中心；以及与来自全国各地的合作者和利益攸关方举办为期两天的讲习班。目标是了解、进行研究，然后计划：1)技术的即时性；2)这些技术创新的影响规模；3)确定一系列不同的问题是如何联系和影响的；以及4)勾勒出我们需要提出的与城市设计和市政管理相关的重要政策和研究问题，以最大限度地发挥这项新技术的好处，同时将负面外部性降至最低。

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are a near future reality and the implications of AVs on city development and urban form, while potentially widespread and dramatic, are not well understood. Projected changes to the ease and cost of transportation, the role and future of transit, parking use, and right-of-way needs will have dramatic secondary effects on street design, development densities, land use, and urban sprawl. These changes will have profound implications on our nation. While there has been a deluge of research on technological aspects of AVs, there has been a dearth of systematic exploration of their secondary effects on city development, form, and design or potential opportunities and unintended consequences on quality of life, including significant equity and labor market impacts. The disruption to urban development and related economic, social, and environmental issues caused by the introduction of AVs has the potential to be on par with the disruptions caused by the introduction of automobiles a century ago. This Urbanism Next Planning Grant will leverage a multidisciplinary collection of national experts in the academic, public, and private sectors to define and understand how the rise of AVs will broadly impact cities beyond just technological needs or primary transportation implications. This Planning Grant will bring together collaborators from engineering, urban design, urban planning, economics, real estate, labor economics, and architecture to promote our understanding of impacts of AVs on society and advance the national health, prosperity and well-being.Throughout the course of the grant, the research team will engage a broad national community of scholars from a range of disciplines, as well as a diverse, multi-sector group of practitioners in the Portland, Oregon region. Planning activities include monthly web-based meetings; creation of a targeted blog and web-based clearinghouse; and a two-day workshop with collaborators and stakeholders from across the country. The goal is to understand, conduct research, and then plan for: 1) the immediacy of the technology; 2) the scale of impact from these technological innovations; 3) identification of how a diverse range of issues are connected and impacted; and 4) to delineate the important policy and research questions we need to be asking related to city design and municipal administration to maximize the benefits of this new technology while minimizing the negative externalities.