Accessibility and Adoption of Shared Automated Vehicles by Disabled Travelers
– Peggy WAng, Principal Investigator
About this Project
This project aims to understand the transportation needs and challenges for people with visual impairment in California, impacts of SAV on accessibility, their future adoption of SAV, and the potential change to their transportation mode choices envisioning having access to SAVs. SB1 Funding. Automated vehicle (AV) technologies are expected to save lives and provide enhanced mobility for all people. In particular, shared automated vehicles (SAVs) could be an attractive means to provide more accessible transportation access for those who cannot drive or face significant barriers to driving. This project will review the literature (peer-reviewed and grey) published to date to identify existing research on the transportation needs and challenges for people with disabilities relative to SAVs, the potential for future adoption of SAVs in this population, and the potential change to their transportation mode choices envisioning having access to SAVs.
