Print Email Facebook Twitter Planning policies for the driverless city using backcasting and the participatory Q-Methodology Title Planning policies for the driverless city using backcasting and the participatory Q-Methodology Author Nogués, Soledad (University of Cantabria) González-González, Esther (University of Cantabria) Stead, D. (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy; Aalto University) Cordera, Rubén (University of Cantabria) Date 2023 Abstract Autonomous vehicles (AVs) can potentially bring about major changes in cities. Anticipatory planning approaches may provide valuable opportunities for fostering desirable transitions and pre-empting undesirable impacts. This research employs a combination of two methods to define the key policies to support a transition to the desirable driverless urban futures: the backcasting approach and the participatory Q-method. The combination of these techniques aims to identify different viewpoints about policies with the purpose of determining more effective and more acceptable options. The article analyses viewpoints from 20 citizens and 10 experts. The results point to the existence of two main viewpoints about the most and least desirable policies. The first viewpoint centres around increasing pedestrian mobility and promoting a more compact city. The second viewpoint centres around expanding transit-oriented development (TOD) and new networks of green spaces. Meanwhile, support for regulation-oriented policies to discourage the use of private motorised vehicles was relatively low. This research not only sheds light on the different viewpoints on the policies to achieve more desirable urban visions, it also illustrates the tensions and disagreements that may arise in the process of policy-making. Subject Autonomous vehiclesBackcastingPolicy packagingQ-methodUrban planning To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4ab68b88-4116-429d-8f5c-286eef264c00 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104535 Embargo date 2024-02-26 ISSN 0264-2751 Source Cities: the international journal of urban policy and planning, 142 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 Soledad Nogués, Esther González-González, D. Stead, Rubén Cordera Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0264275123003475_main.pdf 903.49 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4ab68b88-4116-429d-8f5c-286eef264c00/datastream/OBJ/view