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What factors determine the intention to use and recommend public autonomous shuttles in a real-life setting? [PDF]
European Journal of Management and Business EconomicsPurposeUser acceptance is a necessary precondition to implementing self-driving buses as a solution to public transport challenges. Focusing on potential users in a real-life setting, this paper aims to analyze the factors that affect their willingness ...
Myriam Quinones +3 more
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Managing Risk in the Design of Modular Systems for an Autonomous Shuttle
IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsThis paper presents an analysis and implementation of a robust autonomous driving system for an electric passenger shuttle in shared spaces. We present results of a risk assessment for our vehicle scenario and develop a flexible architecture that ...
Thomas H. Drage +5 more
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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Icy roads and urban environments. Passenger experiences in autonomous vehicles in Finland
, 2021 This study focused on identifying customerś real-life experiences, perceptions and feelings about travelling in different autonomous vehicles and in various operating conditions in Finland in 2018. Quantitative convenience sample (n = 141) were collected
Salonen, Arto O +2 more
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Estimating the total mortality of seabirds following a marine heat wave
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Marine heat waves detrimentally affect a range of marine species, including seabirds, and are increasing in frequency and severity. When thousands of dead seabirds wash up on beaches, the public becomes concerned. However, the number of dead birds recorded on beaches is only a fraction of the total mortality; most birds perish at sea.
Jennifer L. Lavers +3 more
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An innovative modelling proposal for the blood supply chain
Vox Sanguinis, EarlyView.Abstract Whole‐blood donation and apheresis are the only ways to obtain blood components for human use. Tools are being developed to improve the efficiency of blood donation systems by reducing waste, increasing donations and preventing shortages.
Jorge Pagán‐Ortiz +4 more
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Autonomous Shuttle Transit: An Exploratory Case Study and the Future Impact on TSU Campus
, 2023 By 2040 the third-largest city in the United States, Houston, Texas, a top global city for traffic congestion, will become a significant metropolis with future growth possibilities of 11 million people passing Chicago (HGAC, 2018).
Richardson, Rayford D.
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Safety evaluation via conflict classification during automated shuttle bus service operations
European Transport Research ReviewThe widespread adoption of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) is being propelled, not only in the realm of private vehicles but also within transit systems. This development serves to enhance urban transport activities, rendering transportation more
Apostolos Ziakopoulos +3 more
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Futures of Transit Work: Contesting Devaluation and Neoliberal Automation in Bus Transit
Anthropology of Work Review, Volume 47, Issue 1, July 2026.ABSTRACT Being a bus operator has long meant access to middle class wages, quality benefits, and union membership, forms of security increasingly rare amid growing precarity. But transit is in trouble. In the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic and decades of disinvestment, bus operators face mounting time pressure, frequent violence, and eroding job ...
Hunter Akridge, Sarah E. Fox
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