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13 C H A P T E R 2 The background information presented in this chapter will help readers better understand some of the potential benefits of transit vehicle automation, what factors and forces should be considered regarding automation timelines and anticipated impacts, and what technologies support transit vehicle automation. The sections in this chapter are: • Levels of vehicle automation.
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14 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce Although there are some exceptions (e.g., automated xed-guideway people movers) , a baseline technology architecture supports vehicle automation.
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Transit Vehicle Automation Overview 15 and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) connectivity.
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16 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce 2.4.1 Potentially Positive Service Impacts In terms of safety, by shifting responsibility for driving from humans to technology, HAVs could reduce opportunities for behavioral errors blamed in most road crashes. Although infrequent, transit vehicle crashes can be a significant source of risk and cost for transit agencies (Lutin et al.
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Transit Vehicle Automation Overview 17 2.4.2 Potential Workforce Effects Transit service automation has the potential to bring about wide and complex impacts on the public transit workforce. However, what those impacts are is very difficult to predict.
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18 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce transit services. Job description changes are changes in the responsibilities, tasks, KSAs, and compensation for positions that now support automated transit services.
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Transit Vehicle Automation Overview 19 2.6.1 Transit Agency Types and Modes The research team realized that use cases might have varying effects on transit jobs at different agency types and sizes. Although not a perfect way to differentiate transit agencies, the research team used the categories of rural/tribal, small urban, and large urban as agency types: • Rural/tribal transit agencies (referred to simply as rural in this report)
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20 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce 2.6.3 Automated Transit Service Adoption Scenarios The research team explored two adoption scenarios: • The partial adoption scenario assumes that implementation of different automated transit use cases at different transit agency types (i.e., rural, small urban, and large urban) will be limited.
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