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Self-driving cars may someday drop off their owners downtown and then leave to find free parking. What would that mean for cities of the future?
Shared e-scooter programs may seem like a green way to get around, but these small vehicles can have big environmental footprints.
New Zealand has proposed new fuel standards, along with a consumer rebates for cleaner cars – paid for by higher costs for high-polluting cars – to cut its rising transport emissions.
Those money-saving black boxes reveal a lot about the rules that govern our lives.
Turning from the conflict of airport expansions to a vision of a low-carbon transport system.
The global trend is to free up valuable city space by reducing parking and promoting other forms of transport that don't clog roads and pollute the air. Australian cities are still putting cars first.
When the Beetle was first introduced, Americans had never seen anything like it. Among art car enthusiasts, it became the ideal canvas for self-expression.
Many cities have no standard method for counting the number of people who live in their cars. This means that their issues are often overlooked in policies designed to help the homeless.
Children are the future, so why don't we listen to them more often?
Academic experts on how the humble car could evolve to become an unlikely hero in the global fight against climate change.
To become an attractive prospect for electric car manufacturers, the UK needs to sort out its supplies of rare earths – Brexit, or no Brexit.
When computers take the wheel, the emotive aspect of driving will change significantly.
Driverless cars will form a fast, efficient transport network, which will make car ownership redundant. But they could also spell the end of public transport.
Despite efforts to encourage a shift to sustainable transportation, traffic congestion is often the focus of debates over mobility. Motorists endlessly demand more roads, but is this really a solution?
The car revolutionised the way people travel – but at a heavy cost. Now, car-free cities will only work when there's reliable public transit and access for all.
From Alexa and Siri to intelligent speed assistance, there's a lot of technology competing for our attention while driving,
The year 2030 may not seem far away, but a decade is a long time in technological terms. Widespread automation, electrification, and connectivity are set to revolutionise the car of the future.
Chinese electric vehicle sales already amount to more than half of the world's total – and car makers and battery manufacturers are working hard to grow even faster.
Traffic impact assessments required of major building developments mainly focus on the movement of cars, but these account for only 30-40% of trips by inner-city apartment dwellers.
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Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence (EVCE), Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Product Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Michael Milford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Fellow, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Research Fellow, Transport, Health and Urban Design (THUD) Research Hub, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Transport, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow in Human Factors & Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Business and Sustainability, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
