Driverless LA 2030
Shortcut Car Sharing City
Time: 06/202 - 08/2020
Location: Los Angeles Midtown
Individual Project
Project Introduction
To meet the future trend of driverless cities and inspired by Elon Musk’s concept of Hyperloop, I conceived a future the driverless system consisting with three major elements: mobile application, one-seat ride driverless vehicle and cooperated tunnel with the driverless vehicle, creating an optimized automating public transportation system of LA, in order to make the city traffic more efficient, safer, faster with this walkless and driverless system.
This project is an envisioning of a future world with populated autonomous driving technology and a discuss of how it will reshape the future traffic and urban public space. I zoom in the specific site which is LA Midtown that has a complicated traffic situation. I started by exploring the city problem with a large-scale holistic city view and researching on how LA commuters most of whom have a serious commuting problem and would be the main users of this autonomous system. Through a sery of studying on site research and driverless technology, I integrated the induced material and technology into the proposed system (tunnel / urban traffic material), using the proposed driverless vehicle as new mean of public transit and ultimately simplifying the means of commuting, extend the public transit coverage and accelerate the traffic.
Primary Research & Mapping
LA Overview & Problem Definition
LA Public Transportation
-Limited Public Transit Coverage
LA’s Public transportation covers a quite limited area which are unaccessible for most the LA commuters who live in counties nearby LA. Even though the public transportation is very complicated including various buses, sub-ways, county lines, but they are not efficient to solve the traffic and commuting problems and not convenient for commuters. Thus, more than80percent of commuters choose to drive in which situation make the busy traffic in LA worse.
LA Commuter Patterns
-Commuter Problems
This diagram illustrates the
commuting pattern of commuters who live in LA and neighbor counties. The commuting time by public transit would be so long for them. Even within LA it could take more than 90 min and it takes longer as distance get longer and the public transit get less efficient.
Population Density
-The Great LA Area
The Great Los Angeles Area consist of five counties and includes more than
20,000,000 people. Other than Los Angeles County,
nearby Orange County and Riverside County are home to a large number of
LA commuters who commuter between counties everyday. Lots of densly populate areas are outside of public transportation coverage. As for these
people, Commuting between home and LA is very common. As the limited public transit coverage.
Public Transit Use
-Low Public Transit Utilization Rate
As a result of limited coverage and low efficiency, it is a common situation
that just a small group of people who live in center city use public transit more frequently. Most commter live in neighbor choose
driving as their main mode of travel. It has became an irrational situation that the
population density is nearly even for different area but the means of traveling
vary greatly.
User Research
LA Commuters Problem Definition
Solution: 2030 Driverless Vehicle Design Proposal
Driverless Technology Evolution & Advantages Analysis
Solution: 2030 Cooperated Tunnel System Proposal
Accelerated traffic system in 2030 cooperating with Driverless Vehicle (Applying induced current charging)
Urban Traffic 2030
Future urban traffic and public space proposal
Crossroad without traffic lights
Office Area with narrow lane
Commercial Area with flexible function street
Workday
normal transportation function
Weekend
partially dedicate to recreation area
