The SocioEnvironmen tal Implicati ons to Urban Waters in The Driver less City
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Contents
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Introduction
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Bios + Photos
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Foreword Edited Interviews
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Ricky Burdett Karen O. Lutsky David Lampert Kara Salazar Mary Pat McGuire Indraneel Kumar Andrew Watkins Lindsay Bayley Justin Keller Jeremy Glover Catherine O’Connor Jay Womack
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Afterwards
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Appendix
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Raw Interviews
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Bibliography
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Introduction
This research project will investigate how to reshape 20th-century transportation infrastructure (such as highways, intersections, roads, and sidewalks) for the 21st-century so that it may accommodate autonomous vehicles while addressing the needs of the entire community. To do so, it will explore trade-offs between three key elements: safety, usability, and aesthetics. It will then propose a suitable balance between these elements by developing a framework for reshaping the existing infrastructure. The resulting framework will serve to inform city planners, architects, and landscape architects how to plan and design cities in which autonomous vehicles safely interact with humans, and it will serve to educate roboticists on how to ensure that the technology they are developing has a positive societal impact. This project will investigate the critical link between the urban landscape and navigation safety of mobile corobots, from self-driving cars to delivery drones, or any mobile co-robot that operates on city streets and sidewalks. It will address fundamental questions of safety and trust in operating ubiquitous robots in dense urban environments by determining what changes to the urban infrastructure can simultaneously ensure safety, usability, and environmental sustainability. It will bring to light opportunities enabled by ubiquitous co-robots, and more to the point it will show how to leverage that technology to make changes in the transportation infrastructure that lead to positive changes for society. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
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Notes This research project will investigate how to reshape 20th-century transportation infrastructure. Such as highways, intersections, roads, and sidewalks) for the 21st-century so that it may accommodate autonomous vehicles while addressing the needs.
State Street, Chicago, IL
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Introduction
The Driverless City Project develops social scenarios, technical solutions, infrastructure prototypes, and model urban codes that transform city streets into the twenty-first-century human infrastructure. Research workshops, computer simulations, visionary drawings, physical models, and narrative videos will give shape to this future city. These elements are developed into smart driving control systems, design guidelines for transportation agencies, model municipal codes, and infrastructural.
These elements are developed into smart driving systems, design guidelines for transportation... As cities around the world leverage the opportunities and manage the impacts of driverless cars, this crucially important project investigates a transformative advance in transportation and communication technologies—the kind that has always changed cities and demanded new forms of physical infrastructure. In the next decades, we can improve urban social life by increasing the ecological performance, safety, and efficiency of streets while also recovering underused land and revitalizing our cities. As cities around the world leverage the opportunities and manage the impacts of driverless cars, this crucially important project investigates a transformative advance in transportation and communication technologies—the kind that has always changed cities and demanded new forms of physical infrastructure. In the next decades, we can improve urban social life by increasing the ecological performance, safety, and efficiency of streets while also recovering underused land and revitalizing our cities. As cities around the world leverage the opportunities and manage the impacts of driverless cars, this crucially important project investigates a transformative advance in transportation and communication technologies—the kind that has always changed cities and demanded new forms of physical infrastructure. In the next decades, we can improve urban social life by increasing the ecological performance, safety, and efficiency of streets while also recovering underused land and revitalizing our cities.
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Ricky Burdett Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age Program.
Notes Edited Interview: page 21 RAW Interview: page 206
David Lampert Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, conducts research, teaching, and service in environmental and water resources engineering.
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Andrew Watkins Architect, Urban Designer and Planner and Principal, SWA at Laguna Beach.
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Lindsay Bayley Senior Planner, CMAP. Parking Reform Network.
Notes Edited Interview: page 21 RAW Interview: page 206
Karen O. Lutsky Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of MinnesotaTwin Cities.
Notes Edited Interview: page 21 RAW Interview: page 206
Justin Keller Manager at Metropolitan Planning Council. Member of the MPC Water Resources team and leads the Drinking Water 1-2-3 initiative, the Calumet Storm-water Collaborative. Notes Edited Interview: page 21 RAW Interview: page 206
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Kara Salazar Assistant Program Leader and Extension Specialist for Sustainable Communities, affiliated with IllinoisIndiana Sea Grant, Purdue University Extension, and the Purdue University Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. Notes Edited Interview: page 21 RAW Interview: page 206
Mary Pat McGuire Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes Edited Interview: page 21 RAW Interview: page 206
Indraneel Kumar Principal Regional Planner at the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD).
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Jeremy Glover Transportation Associate at Metropolitan Planning Council.
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Catherine O'Connor Research Scientist at Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
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Jay Womack Director, Ecological Landscape Design
Notes Edited Interview: page 21 RAW Interview: page 206
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This research project will investigate how to reshape 20thcentury transportation infrastructure. Such as highways, intersections, roads, and sidewalks)
The Driverless City Project develops social scenarios, technical solutions, infrastructure prototypes, and model urban codes that transform city streets into the twenty-first-century human infrastructure. Research workshops, computer simulations, visionary drawings, physical models, and narrative videos will give shape to this future city. These elements are developed into smart driving control systems, design guidelines for transportation agencies, model municipal codes, and infrastructural.
For the 21st-century so that it may accommodate autonomous vehicles while addressing the needs.
These elements are developed into smart driving systems, design guidelines for transportation elements are developed into smart driving systems, design guidelines As cities around the world leverage the opportunities and manage the impacts of driverless cars, this crucially important project investigates a transformative advance in transportation and communication technologies—the kind that has always changed cities and demanded new forms of physical infrastructure. In the next decades, we can improve urban social life by increasing the ecological performance, safety, and efficiency of streets while also recovering underused land and revitalizing our cities.
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Ricky Burdett
The Driverless City Project develops social scenarios, technical solutions, infrastructure prototypes, and model urban codes that transform city streets into the twenty-first-century human infrastructure. Research workshops, computer simulations, visionary drawings, physical models, and narrative videos will give shape to this future city. These elements are developed into smart driving control systems, design guidelines for transportation agencies, model municipal codes, and infrastructural. As cities around the world leverage the opportunities and manage the impacts of driverless cars, this crucially important project investigates a transformative advance in transportation and communication technologies—the kind that has always changed cities and demanded new forms of physical infrastructure. In the next decades, we can improve urban social life by increasing the ecological performance, safety, and efficiency of streets while also recovering underused land and revitalizing our cities. As cities around the world leverage the opportunities and manage the impacts of driverless cars, this crucially important project investigates a transformative advance in transportation and communication technologies—the kind that has always changed cities and demanded new forms of physical infrastructure. In the next decades, we can improve urban social life by increasing the ecological performance, safety, and efficiency of streets while also recovering underused land and revitalizing our cities. As cities around the world leverage the opportunities and manage the impacts of driverless cars, this crucially important project investigates a transformative advance in transportation and communication technologies—the kind that has always changed cities and demanded new forms of physical infrastructure. In the next decades, we can improve urban social life by increasing the ecological performance, safety, and efficiency of streets while also recovering underused land and revitalizing our cities. 1.
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This research project will investigate how to reshape 20th-century transportation infrastructure. Such as highways, intersections, roads, and sidewalks) For the 21st-century so that it may accommodate autonomous vehicles while addressing the needs. This research project will investigate how to reshape 20th-century transportation infrastructure. Such as highways, intersections, roads, and sidewalks) For the 21st-century so that it may accommodate autonomous vehicles while addressing the needs.
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