The subject of this open-access publication is the impact of connected and automated vehicles
on the European city and the conditions under which this technology can make a positive
contribution to urban development. The authors put forward two theses that have received little
attention in the scientific discourse so far: Connected and automated vehicles will not become
fully established in all sub-areas of the city for a long time. As a result previously assumed
effects - from traffic safety to traffic performance as well as spatial effects - will have to
be reevaluated. To ensure a positive contribution of this technology to the mobility of the
future transport and settlement policy regulations must be further developed. Established
territorial institutional and organizational boundaries need to be challenged in a timely
manner. Despite or because of the existing great uncertainties we are at the beginning of a
phase of yet shaping the possible future - in technology development but also in politics
urban planning administration and civil society. Description of the chapters: 1. Connected and
automated driving: The long level 4 Mathias Mitteregger reflects on the road ahead for
automated driving. What pathways of technological development induce which kind of spatial
effects and planning needs? 2. Connected and automated driving: Consideration of the local
spatial context and spatial differentiationEmilia M. Bruck and Aggelos Soteropoulos reflect on
the importance of the local context when classifying and estimating the effects of different
forms of automated mobility. 3. Connected and automated driving in the context of a sustainable
transport and mobility transformation Andrea Stickler Jens S. Dangschat and Ian Banerjee
integrate possible potentials of automated mobility in the context of a transformed
sustainable transport system. PART I: Mobility and transport 4. Self-driving turnaround or
automotive continuity? Reflections on technology innovation and social change Katharina
Manderscheid reflects on how differing visions of an automated future can be understood with
regard to divergent interests in technological development. 5. Automated drivability and
streetscape compatibility in the urban-rural continuum using the example of Greater
ViennaAggelos Soteropoulos analyses how different street spaces align with technological
requirements of automated mobility creating a suitability framework for road spaces in the
Greater Vienna region. 6. Automation public transport and Mobility as a Service: Experience
from tests with automated shuttle buses The authors show what types of automated public
transport might be used in the future and what can be learned from testing automated shuttle
buses in the past. 7. Delivery robots as a solution for the last mile in the city?Bert Leerkamp
Aggelos Soteropoulos and Martin Berger describe how automated delivery robots could be
contextualized in terms of solving last-mile problems and discuss what implications might lie
ahead for urban planning. PART II: Public space 8. Control and design of spatial mobility
interfacesThe authors identify the possible implications of automated mobility for mobility
interfaces and explore how public spaces could be transformed. 9. Transformations of European
public spaces with AVs Robert Martin Emilia M. Bruck and Aggelos Soteropoulos use the example
of Copenhagen to show how public spaces could be transformed in an age of automated urban
mobility and benefit from lower car dependency. 10. At the end of the road: Total
