Toward a National Regulatory Framework for Automated Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities

The deployment of automated vehicles, shared mobility services, and other transformational transportation technologies has the potential to dramatically increase safety, reduce congestion, improve access, enhance sustainability, and spur economic development. However, success in meeting these goals is not assured and there are significant risks that these deployments could cause unintended consequences.

TR Circular E-C284: Toward a National Regulatory Framework for Automated Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities, from TRB's Technical Activities Division and the TRB Forum on Preparing for Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility Services, summarizes a series of panels from 2022 on the roles of the public and private sectors in vehicle automation.