Future Faculty Lecture: Exploring the Economic, Environmental, and Travel Implications of Changes in Parking Choices Due to Driverless Vehicles

Speaker: Dr. Corey Harper
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University

UCLA Civil & Environmental Engineering Department

Future Faculty Lecture

“Exploring the Economic, Environmental, and Travel Implications of Changes in Parking Choices Due to Driverless Vehicles”

Corey D. Harper

Presidential Post-Doctoral Fellow

Carnegie Mellon University

cdharper@andrew.cmu.edu

Fully driverless automated vehicles (AVs) could considerably alter the value of proximity parking, due to an AV’s ability to drop passengers off at their destination, search for cheaper parking and return to pick up their occupants when needed. This study estimates the potential impact of privately owned driverless vehicles on vehicle miles traveled (VMT), energy use, emissions, and parking revenues in the city of Seattle, Washington, from changes in parking decisions using an agent-based simulation model. This analysis provides an illustration of the first-order effects of AVs on the built environment and could help inform near- and long-term policy and infrastructure decisions during the transition to automation.

Where:   Engineering VI 134A

When:     11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Friday, February 14, 2020

Dr. Corey Harper is a Presidential Post-Doctoral Fellow in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on climate resilient transportation systems and automation in transportation. Here he uses cost-benefit analysis, modeling and simulation, and machine learning to ask questions such as “how does rain impact congestion on the transportation network” and “how could robocars impact parking revenues in our central business districts.” He is also the recipient of the Elsevier ATLAS Best Paper Award for his work looking at the equity impacts of automation. In 2016, he was invited to become a Young Member on the Transportation Research Board Standing Committee for Vehicle-Highway Automation. He earned a PhD and MS in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds a BS degree from Morgan State University in Civil Engineering. Before becoming a Postdoc, he held a position at Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, DC, supporting clients on technical and policy issues related to cyber-physical systems, especially helping the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) with the integration of connected and automated vehicles.

 

 

Date/Time:
Date(s) - Feb 14, 2020
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location:
Cohen Room 134, Engineering VI Building
404 Westwood Blvd Los Angeles California 90095
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