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Sustainable urban mobility: Data-based insights for a future with only seamless public transport

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Illustrative future automated transit (non-private) vehicle for urban mobility.

Research being carried out by Professor Avishai (Avi) Ceder from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology offers a fresh global perspective of the current situation of urban transport. He examines opportunities for us to move towards sustainable urban mobility that could substantially reduce road traffic damages and its global impact. Using data from 19 countries and 17 major cities, Ceder measures […]

Uncomfortable ethics for autonomous vehicles

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Dr Tripat Gill examines the ethical dilemmas that will face AVs (autonomous vehicles) on the road, and undertook a study which shows that responsibility attribution has an effect on people's decision making.

Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles (AVs), are an inevitability on our roads. That’s probably a good thing – most accidents are the result of human error. Ironically, humans will still need to programme the ’thinking’ part of an AV, especially when it’s presented with ethical dilemmas. But how important is this for AV manufacturers? Dr Tripat Gill of Wilfrid Laurier […]