Automation as an enabler: Passengers’ experience of travelling with a full-length automated bus and their expectations of a future public transport system
Paper in proceeding, 2023

Twenty-two frequent public transport users experienced travelling with a fully automated, full-length bus on a test course that included nine simulated everyday traffic situations. Most participants experienced the journey as very positive and their trust in the automated system was high. In general, they were positive about using automated buses in the future but believed that this would not improve their travelling experience or change their travel behaviour without additional modifications to the system, such as dedicated public transport lanes etc. Many believed that the introduction of automated buses could create conditions for increased access to transport in rural areas and that the automated technology might enable new services that would have a great impact on public transport development, contributing a more individual, efficient and flexible public transport system.

user acceptance

behaviour and mobility patterns

automated vehicle

automated mass transit

full-length bus

automated bus

Author

Mikael Johansson

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Design & Human Factors

Fredrick Ekman

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Design & Human Factors

Marianne Karlsson

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Design & Human Factors

Helena Strömberg

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Design & Human Factors

Joakim Jonsson

Volvo Buses

Mikael Faleke

Västtrafik

Published in

Transportation Research Procedia

23521457 (ISSN) 23521465 (eISSN)

Vol. 72p. 957-964

Conference

2022 Conference Proceedings Transport Research Arena, TRA Lisbon 2022
Lisbon, Portugal, 2022-11-13 - 2022-11-16

Categorizing

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Transport Systems and Logistics

Human Computer Interaction

Identifiers

DOI

10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.523

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