Automated Vehicles as a Game Changer for Sustainable Mobility Learnings and Solutions

This open access book explores a vision for a sustainable future in urban mobility through the AVENUE project, showcasing full-scale demonstrations of automated minibuses in European cities. AVENUE pioneers on-demand, door-to-door services, challenging traditional fixed bus itineraries. It delves into the implementation of automated vehicles, emphasizing safety, services, cybersecurity, and accessibility. Part two evaluates the economic, environmental, and social impacts on companies, citizens, and cities. By integrating automated vehicles into Mobility-as-a-Service and Intelligent Transport Systems, the book argues for the using of automated vehicles as game changer towards a transformative shift to sustainable, citizen-centric mobility. It advocates for efficiency, flexibility, and resilience of the transport system without imposing coercive transformation policies.

Guy Fournier is Professor affiliated to Pforzheim University in Germany and CentraleSupélec, Univesité Paris Saclay, France. He is an expert in sustainable mobility and system innovation which serves general interest. His core interest and expertise rests within automated vehicles, MaaS (Mobilty as a Service), self-learning ITS (Intelligent Transport System) and LaaS (Logistics as a Service). He was board member and responsible for the impact assessment of the H2020 AVENUE Project and is currently working on ULTIMO Horizon Europe project as scientific coordinator.

Adrian Boos is an economist and political scientist with a PhD in environmental economics. He has several years of professional experience in management consulting, but has worked primarily (for more than 15 years) as a researcher and lecturer in the fields of economics and sustainability. He was involved in the AVENUE project as a senior researcher at Pforzheim University and currently holds this position in the follow-up project ULTIMO, which runs until 2026.

Dimitri Konstantas is a Professor at the Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM) of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), member of the University Informatics Center (CUI)) and director of the Information Science Institute (ISI). With expertise spanning e-commerce, information security, mobile and e-health services, and shared mobility solutions, he has over 200 publications and extensive involvement in European projects. As coordinator of the H2020 AVENUE project, he deployed the first regular public transportation services with fully automated minibuses. Currently, as Associate Coordinator & Technical Manager of the Horizon Europe project ULTIMO, he aims to deploy economically viable public transportation services with Automated vehicles.

Danielle Attias is an Emeritus Professor at Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire Génie Industriel (France). Prof. Attias was scientific coordinator of the H2020 AVENUE project. She's a member of the Sustainable Economy research team at ECP's Industrial Engineering Laboratory. As an expert at the Club de l'Orme (CEA/Saclay) and a member of the I-tésé Institute for Techno-Economic Systems (since 2009), her research focuses on innovation economics, electromobility economics, crisis management, and finance, with keywords including electromobility, managerial crises, financial crises, value, and innovation.