Impacts of shared autonomous vehicles: Tradeoff between parking demand reduction and congestion increase

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.15019v1
• Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:16:47 GMT
• Title: Impacts of shared autonomous vehicles: Tradeoff between parking demand reduction and congestion increase
• Authors: Yusuke Kumakoshi, Hisatomo Hanabusa, Takashi Oguchi
• Abstract summary: Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) can have significant impacts on the transport system and land use by replacing private vehicles. This study estimates the impacts of SAVs at the local scale by simulating their operation on a developed simulator.
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• Abstract: Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) can have significant impacts on the transport system and land use by replacing private vehicles. Sharing vehicles without drivers is expected to reduce parking demand, and as a side effect, increase congestion owing to the empty fleets made by SAVs picking up travelers and relocating. Although the impact may not be uniform over a region of interest owing to the heterogeneity of travel demand distribution and network configuration, few studies have debated such impact at a local scale, such as in transportation analysis zones (TAZs). To understand the impact in relation to geographical situations, this study aims to estimate the impacts of SAVs at the local scale by simulating their operation on a developed simulator. Using the mainland of Okinawa, Japan as a case study, it was found that parking demand was reduced the most in residence-dominant zones in terms of quantity and in office-dominant zones in terms of proportion. As a side effect of replacing private vehicles with SAVs, empty fleets increase congestion, particularly at the periphery of the city. Overall, the results show the heterogeneous impacts of the SAVs at the TAZ level on both land use and traffic, thus suggesting the importance of developing appropriate strategies for urban and transport planning when considering the characteristics of the zones.

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