Modeling for New Modes: Autonomous Vehicles & Shared Rides

In recent years, vehicle sharing, ride hailing, and autonomous vehicles are emerging as both policy and travel options throughout the U.S. These modes are only just beginning to be considered in travel modeling applications, and our understanding of their likely impacts on travel behavior is limited. Given the innate uncertainties of these emerging modes, a team of researchers—Liming Wang, Jennifer Dill and Kelly Clifton of Portland State University—set out to help bring them into the modeling process.