Blogs
Thursday, 21 April 2016
AVs must overcome roadblocks
To reap the massive societal benefits that AVs promise, multistakeholder collaboration is needed in multiple forms.
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Tuesday, 19 April 2016
AVs six automation levels
The SAE International framework for vehicle automation.
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Thursday, 14 April 2016
AVs promise tremendous benefits
Widespread adoption of AVs could eliminate road fatalities, improve travel time by 40%, recover up to 80 billion hours lost to commuting and congestion, and reduce fuel consumption by 40%.
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Tuesday, 12 April 2016
AVs evolution of technology
The technology will not gain commercial scale overnight, it may take several years before OEMs will be able to offer autonomous features at a price that's both acceptable to consumers and profitable for the manufacturer.
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Thursday, 7 April 2016
Autonomous driving is gaining momentum
The level of consumer interest in AVs is higher and more intense than it was for electric vehicles (EVs) prior to their introduction and suggests that AV adoption may be more rapid and widespread than the currently slow pace of EV adoption.
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Tuesday, 5 April 2016
Be cautious when predicting the future role of AVs
Optimistic predictions of the Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) benefits have raised hopes that this technology will soon be widely available and solve many transportation problems. However, there are good reasons to be cautious when predicting their future role.
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Thursday, 31 March 2016
Usage of innercity parking spaces on the rise
The parking production (sold hours per parking space) has had a stronger decline than domestic spending over the past years, however, it recovers more quickly.
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Tuesday, 29 March 2016
Reducing parking tariffs - no solution for empty shops
Free or cheaper parking may trigger a shift in shopping behaviour, but it will not automatically lead to increased retail turnovers, and is therefore not a solution to the empty retail units.
The real reason of the demise of our city shopping centres is the oversupply, a poorly balanced retail mix, changing consumer shopping behaviour, the economic recession. In an attractive shopping area, the consumer is not really bothered about what they have to pay for parking.
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