Planning for Cars That Drive Themselves: Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Regional Transportation Plans, and Autonomous Vehicles

Journal of Planning Education and Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 210-224

  Guerra, Erick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomous vehicles; long range planning; metropolitan planning; regional transportation planning; self driving cars

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973360158     PISSN: 0739456X     EISSN: 15526577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X15613591     Document Type: Article

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