Understanding the impacts of new mobility, autonomous vehicles, and E-commerce on urban design

摘要

The last decade has seen a series of changes in transportation and retail models that are not only impacting cities today but also portend larger changes ahead. Transportation choices have expanded to now include ridesharing, carsharing, microtransit, bikeshare and e-scootershare. At the same time the retail sector is being upended by the rise of e-commerce activity. Currently accelerated by the pandemic, e-commerce has shifted purchasing from brick-and-mortar stores to digital platforms. These changes, made possible by the rise of mobile technology, big data and the sharing economy, have broad ramifications that extend beyond transportation and retail and impact the organization and design of cities (Howell et al., 2020).