Autonomous vehicles (AVs) continue to be developed and gradually deployed, but are people willing to use them over public transit? Engineering management and systems engineering assistant professor John Helveston and Ph.D. candidate Leah Kaplan explored this question in a study published in Transportation Research Record, “Undercutting Transit? Exploring Potential Competition Between Automated Vehicles and Public Transportation in the United States.”
“There is a big concern that autonomous vehicles could undercut public transit systems, which would have important implications for the environment and transportation equity,” Kaplan stated.
