Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 175
Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-0-8157-3857-2 • Paperback • June 2020 • $34.00 • (£25.00)
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Clifford Winston, the Searle Freedom Trust Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution's Economic Studies program, has been with Brookings since 1984. He is an applied microeconomist who specializes in the analysis of industrial organization, regulation, and transportation.Winston has also been co-editor of the annual microeconomics edition of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Prior to his fellowship at Brookings, he was an Associate Professor in the Transportation Systems Division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Civil Engineering. He is the author of numerous books on economics and public policy.Quentin Karpilow is a former Brookings research assistant who recently graduated from Yale Law School.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Introduction and Background
1. Introduction
2. Autonomous-Vehicle Operations and the Process of Adoption
Part 2: Potential Effects of Autonomous Vehicles
3. The Potential Effects of Autonomous Vehicles on Economic Sectors
4. Estimating the Effects of Congestion on Economic-Performance Measures
5. Estimation Results Obtained from the Congestion Model
6. Simulation of the Effects of Autonomous Vehicles on Congestion
7. Other Important Effects of Autonomous Vehicles
Part 3: Constraints on the Success of Autonomous Vehicles
8. Technological Constraints
9. Public-Policy Constraints
10. Conclusion
Appendix: Measuring Freight Flows across Urban Areas
Notes
References
Index