Innovation takes the wheel: Transforming the future of transport through research

Clare Palmer, Rebecca Posner and Lucy Farrow

Future transport technologies, like self-driving vehicles, have the potential to deliver numerous economic and societal benefits, but these benefits will only be realised if people use the vehicles once they become available.

Introduction: using novel approaches to explore views of emerging technologies

Future transport technologies, like self-driving vehicles (SDVs), have the potential to deliver a range of economic and societal benefits, from reducing congestion to increasing mobility for those with disabilities. But these benefits will only be realised if people use the vehicles once they become available. Understanding public preferences for future technology is a huge challenge for policymakers, with the risk that hypothetical views and intentions expressed now aren't borne out when the technology comes along. For researchers, the challenge is to bring the technology to life with specifics, while maintaining...

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