September 2018
Speaker: Ben Grush
Bern Grush, Co-author of “The End of Driving: Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Autonomous Vehicles (Elsevier)” explored some of the issues that cities, their planners, residents, and businesses will need to address over the coming decade or two. He challenged the audience with a lot of questions and made a few suggestions. Attendees came away with a wide set of issues dealing with urban change, social change, job and health impacts, livability, behavioural challenges, consumer changes, and above all sufficient uncertainty to keep people engaged with the changes of “New Mobility” for some time.