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| Climate Week: Will Autonomous Vehicles Improve The Environment? A Skeptical Conversation
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| With Jeffrey Tumlin (former Exec. Director, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)), David Zipper (Contributing Writer, Bloomberg City Lab), Rachel Weinberger (Vice President, Transportation & Peter W. Herman Chair, Regional Planning Association), Jeral Poskey (Founder, Swyft Cities). |
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Sep 23 (Wed) @ 03:00 PM
FREE
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As cities rethink transportation in the face of climate change, autonomous vehicles are often presented as a promising part of the solution. But do they actually reduce emissions, congestion, & resource use, or do they risk making these problems worse? This Climate Week NYC event will take a clear-eyed look at the environmental case for autonomous vehicles & examine where the evidence supports the hype, & where it does not.
A panel of top experts will discuss along with a Q&A session:
Jeffrey Tumlin - former Exec. Director, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)
David Zipper -- Contributing writer, Bloomberg City Lab; former Senior Fellow, MIT Mobility Initiative
Rachel Weinberger -- Vice President, Transportation & Peter W. Herman Chair, Regional Planning Association
Jeral Poskey - Founder, Swyft Cities; former project executive for transportation planning, Google
Format: Panel Discussion followed by Q&A
The discussion will explore the complicated relationship between automation, mobility, & sustainability. Rather than assuming new technology automatically leads to better outcomes, the discussion will focus on the many potential impacts: energy use, induced demand, land use, transit interactions, fleet models, & the difference between theoretical efficiency & actual environmental performance.
Join us for a timely discussion on climate & the future of urban mobility.
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