URBAN TRANSFORMATION THROUGH CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED VEHICLES: INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORTATION, AND SOCIETAL IMPACTS

The interconnected and self-driving vehicles (CAVs) are appearing in a world of human travel, where they promise enhanced safety, better efficiency, and a sustainable approach to transportation. But realizing their potential calls for a complete rethinking of today's infrastructure and CAVs' place in it. The research needed for that understanding to happen is very much in its early stages. This article serves as a beginning point for a full-scale study of the issue. It looks at the infrastructure changes that will be required to safely integrate CAVs into our lives, changes that already face several very serious obstacles. It also looks at the future societal and governmental changes the CAVs will force upon us. And it considers all these changes in light of what's become an essential landscape for the CAVs: the cybersecurity threat to the millions of lines of code the vehicles rely upon for their safe functioning. At the end, we'll also flag some gaps in what's known so far and what those gaps could mean for a future informed by the knowledge of the past.