Transforming Cities With Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development by Hiroaki Suzuki & Robert Cervero & Kanako Iuchi

Author:Hiroaki Suzuki & Robert Cervero & Kanako Iuchi [Suzuki, Hiroaki & Cervero, Robert & Iuchi, Kanako]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business & Economics, Urban & Regional, Development, Economic Development, Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780821397459
Google: ruWxV2NsCTsC
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2013-01-10T00:10:15.700522+00:00

Chapter 7

Recommendations for Optimizing New Mobilities

This chapter describes specific ways that communities can implement New Mobility to maximize their benefits and minimize potential problems.

What Others Recommend

Many experts and organizations offer advice for implementing New Mobilities. These vary in perspective and scope. Advocates highlight the benefits of emerging modes, and so recommend their speedy implementation.1 Skeptics highlight their costs and risks and recommend policies to limit negative impacts.2 Some try to provide balanced recommendations.3

For example, Bruce Schaller’s report The New Automobility evaluates ridehailing impacts.4 It concludes that ridehailing can provide significant benefits but warns, “Without public policy intervention, big American cities are likely to be overwhelmed with more automobility, more traffic and less transit and drained of the density and diversity which are indispensable to their economic and social well-being.” It recommends policies to prevent ridehailing from increasing traffic problems and inequity.

The National Association of City Transportation Officials’ Guidelines for Regulating Shared Micromobility recognizes the potential benefits of scooter, bike, and e-bike sharing services, but also various costs and risks they can impose, and so recommends policies to ensure they are used safely and responsibly.5 These include municipal standards for compliance, equipment, service quality, data integrity, and fleet size, plus regulations and programs to minimize conflicts in public rights-of-way.

Daniel Sperling’s book Three Revolutions highlights the potential benefits of automated, electric, and shared vehicles but recognizes potential problems if they increase total vehicle travel and sprawl, as well as the need for policies that favor more resource-efficient modes.6 The National Association of City Transportation Officials’ Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism recommends that, to maximize community benefits, autonomous vehicle policies should emphasize safety, maximize person rather than vehicle throughput, and ensure that benefits are distributed equitably.7 It warns that “automation without a comprehensive overhaul of how our streets are designed, allocated, and shared will not result in substantive safety, sustainability, or equity gains.”

Hana Creger, Joel Espino, and Alvaro S. Sanchez’s report Autonomous Vehicle Heaven or Hell? Creating a Transportation Revolution that Benefits All for the Greenline Institute, an environmental and social equity advocacy organization, concludes that “if left up to the free market without adequate regulation, we can expect a ‘hell’ scenario dominated by personally-owned autonomous vehicles that are only accessible to those who can afford them, while further congesting our streets and polluting our air, leaving others to cope with worse traffic, longer commutes and under-resourced public transit.”8 To achieve more positive results they recommend policies that favor fleets of autonomous vehicles that are electric and shared (FAVES). Similarly, Tom Cohen and Clémence Cavoli’s article “Automated Vehicles: Exploring Possible Consequences of Government (non)intervention for Congestion and Accessibility” argues that laissez-faire free-market policies will cause autonomous vehicles to increase traffic congestion and reduce accessibility for non-drivers, resulting in undesirable outcomes.9

Stephen Goldsmith’s Governing magazine article “An Impact Framework for the New Mobility” recommends that New Mobility planning should consider these impacts:10

•Access and equity: How do decisions increase or decrease access and for whom, and how do they mitigate or aggravate equity issues?

•Environment: How do transportation

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