Self Driving Cities
Self Driving Cities connects academic researchers, government, and industry in the urban mobility space
Our mission is to collect and analyze data to answer policy questions like these:
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How will Autonomous Vehicles change our cities?
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How will different regulations around AVs affect congestion, air pollution, land use, parking?
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How should Mobility as a Service (MaaS) technologies and industries be regulated?
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How can MaaS transportation capacity be optimized?
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How can new technologies be integrated into the existing urban mobility network?
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How can innovation and competition be encouraged?
Outcomes
We aim to improve quality of life through building greener cities by:
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Enabling healthier lifestyles
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Reducing congestion and harmful emissions
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Optimizing use of MaaS resources
About Us
Self Driving Cities is led by Hendrik Wolff, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University.
Read more about Hendrik here.
Email: H.Wolff@lse.ac.uk
Publications
We aim to improve quality of life in cities by:
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Enabling healthier lifestyles
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Reducing congestion and harmful emissions
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Optimizing use of MaaS resources
Bike Sharing, Bike Infrastructure and Congestion - Evidence from NYC’s Citibike (Working Paper)
Bike infrastructure and Congestion - Evidence from Manhattan (Working Paper)
The Effect of Bicycle Sharing Programs on Pollution Levels in North America (Working Paper)
A New Open Data Framework for Mobility as a Service (Working Paper)
Choking Behind the Wheel: The Effect of Air Pollution on Vehicle Accidents (Working Paper)
Do Carbon Taxes Kill Jobs? Firm-Level Evidence from British Columbia - Climate Change Economics (2023)
Effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services after loss and uncertainty of compensation - Nature Sustainability (2021)
Air Pollution and Urban Road Transport: Evidence from the World’s Largest Low Emission Zone in London - Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (2021)
Fracking, Coal and Air Quality - Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (2019)
Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life - Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2016)
The Power of the Little Blue Pill: Innovations and Implications of Life Style Drugs in an Aging Population - Economic Inquiry (2015)
An institutional analysis of Payment for Environmental Services on collectively managed lands in Ecuador - Ecological Economics (2015)
Keep Your Clunker In The Suburb: Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles - Economic Journal (2014)
Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests - Annual Review of Resource Economics (2014)
Value of Time, Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2014)
Analysis of Heterogeneous Speeding Behavior with Hourly Washington State Data” - Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2013)
Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error: Evidence from the Human Development Index - Economic Journal (2011)
Trends in Clean Air Legislation in Europe: Particulate Matter and Low Emission Zones - Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (2010)
Daylight time and energy: Evidence from an Australian experiment - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2008)
Partnerships
Hendrik Wolff is Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University. SelfdrivingCities partners with local and international organizations on a range of questions in mobility research and implementation
