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Make way for the wealthy? Autonomous vehicles, markets in mobility, and social justice

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  • Robert Sparrow
  • Mark Howard

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The development of a ‘mobility as a service’ model for accessing urban transport via autonomous vehicles may be expected to have far-reaching implications for the economics of road transport. In particular, it would offer a new opportunity to price access to the roads in accordance with the principles of the free market. Once people are paying for mobility on the roads on a ‘per trip’ basis, it will be possible to offer different levels of access – and service – at different prices. According to hegemonic ideas in the transport planning and economics literature the introduction of such a ‘market in mobility’ would be an economically efficient way of allocating access to the scarce good of space on the roads. In this paper we draw attention to a number of ethical and political challenges to the appropriateness of the use of such a pricing mechanism in the context of urban mobility.

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  • Robert Sparrow & Mark Howard, 2020. "Make way for the wealthy? Autonomous vehicles, markets in mobility, and social justice," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(4), pages 514-526, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:15:y:2020:i:4:p:514-526
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1739832
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    1. Alberto Dianin & Elisa Ravazzoli & Georg Hauger, 2021. "Implications of Autonomous Vehicles for Accessibility and Transport Equity: A Framework Based on Literature," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-17, April.
    2. Jiang, Like & Chen, Haibo & Paschalidis, Evangelos, 2023. "Diffusion of connected and autonomous vehicles concerning mode choice, policy interventions and sustainability impacts: A system dynamics modelling study," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 274-290.
    3. Leon Booth & Victoria Farrar & Jason Thompson & Rajith Vidanaarachchi & Branislava Godic & Julie Brown & Charles Karl & Simone Pettigrew, 2023. "Anticipated Transport Choices in a World Featuring Autonomous Transport Options," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-10, July.
    4. Cooper, Erin & Vanoutrive, Thomas, 2022. "Does MaaS address the challenges of multi-modal mothers? User perspectives from Brussels, Belgium," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 130-138.
    5. Jiang, Like & Chen, Haibo & Chen, Zhiyang, 2022. "City readiness for connected and autonomous vehicles: A multi-stakeholder and multi-criteria analysis through analytic hierarchy process," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 128(C), pages 13-24.

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