TRR: Modeling Individual Preferences for Ownership and Sharing of Autonomous Vehicle Technologies

Lifestyle factors play an important role in shaping use of autonomous vehicles. Younger, urban residents who are more educated and technologically savvy are more likely to be early adopters of AV technologies than are older, suburban, and rural individuals, a fact that favors a sharing-based service model over private ownership.

"Modeling Individual Preferences for Ownership and Sharing of Autonomous Vehicle Technologies," by Patrícia S. Lavieri, Venu M. Garikapati, Chandra R. Bhat, Ram M. Pendyala, Sebastian Astroza, and Felipe F. Dias, from 2017, was 2019's second-most cited article from Transportation Research Record.

Models such as the one presented in this paper can be used to predict the adoption of AV technologies, and such predictions will, in turn, help forecast the effects of AVs under alternative future scenarios.