Automated vehicles in a major European city – a technical perspective on urban transport policy options: the case of Vienna

Introducing automated vehicles to the urban mobility system will certainly bring changes for mobility behavior and will thus impact the effects of traffic in the city. The development path is very uncertain from a current perspective but several opportunities and risks can be envisioned. Several experts in the Vienna City Administration have seized the opportunity to reflect on the City’s objectives for urban and transport development matching them with expected risks and opportunities in this formative phase. In addition, instruments at the disposal of an urban municipal administration were collected in the areas of “public spaces and street infrastructure”, “land use and settlement patterns” and “traffic system management”, which could help gearing developments towards the transport policy goals. It is expected that the findings are valid and applicable to a large extent to other large European Cities.