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Dr. Ata Khan, co-editor in a new book on shared mobility and automated vehicles

Dr. Ata Khan, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University and Dr. Susan Shaheen, professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley are Co-editors of a new book titled Shared Mobility and Automated Vehicles: Responding to socio-technical changes and pandemics, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) based in the UK. Many of the contributing authors are associated with the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Riverside, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (California), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Melbourne (Australia), Carleton University (Canada), Ryerson University (Canada), Ford Mobility Greenfield Labs (California), Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.), and Perkins&Will (San Francisco). 

Here is an excerpt from the book.

“Serving as a source of information on how best to shape shared vehicle systems of the future, this book contributes knowledge on key facets of shared mobility. It includes shared vehicle systems as well as shared automated vehicle systems. Themes covered in the book include policy and regulatory frameworks, planning, design, technology, demand and supply models, algorithms, operations, management, economic factors, business models, social equity, environmental impacts, and pandemic effects.”

(Khan and Shaheen, 2021)