Automated vehicles: the future of urban mobility?

Using the example of the greater Paris region, Parent illustrated how cities adapt to and are shaped by new transportation technologies. Paris has been a dense, congested city for centuries, he said, and over time it has constructed many systems—from electric tramways to the Metro to modern toll roads— to serve its mobility needs. Still, Paris today is the most congested city in Europe, and large cities everywhere face the same congestion issues.