Semester 1 2018 Studio AV
MUP Studio AV: Networks and Space
Impacts of AVs on transport in suburban Melbourne
Iain LAWRIE and Luisiana PAGANELLI
The studio is supported by Transport for Victoria. It offers opportunities to explore the positive and negative impacts of the autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies on transport safety, accessibility and equity, and on the use of space on streets and around stations in suburban Melbourne. While much has been written about the potential impacts of AVs for transforming mobility, urban form and public space, there has been little detailed exploration and visualisation of what these impacts might be in actual places.
AVs include possibilities for new forms private and shared vehicles that will blur the boundaries between private and public transport. We will investigate the impacts of several scenarios for their deployment to explore questions including:
- Which forms of AV technology best support environmental, social and public health objectives?
- What regulations or policies would most effectively support these technologies in Melbourne?
- How will AVs use urban public space (in streets around stations) under different scenarios? What are the likely positive and negative impacts on local and broader urban form and space?
Using places in Melbourne as case studies, we will work with transport planners and urban designers from local and state government as well as the private sector. We will contribute directly to professional and public debates on policies for AV deployment.
We recommended that students taking this studio have previously completed Public Transport Network Planning (ABPL90090) as many of the concepts explored in that course will be applied in the studio. If you have not done this subject, you will need to do some additional reading before the studio begins.
Learning outcomes will focus on:
- identifying access, safety and equity issues surrounding AV deployment and their resolution through effective strategic planning and urban design;
- proposing creative solutions to problems in the design and use of urban public space for AVs;
- communicating and advocating effectively in a clear and professional manner.
Studio Coordinators
John STONE and Ian WOODCOCK (RMIT)
Studio Leaders
Iain LAWRIE and Luisiana PAGANELLI
- This studio is also available as CDE Studio 39 -