The Autonomous Vehicle Revolution: Implications for Planning/The Future Driverless City?/Autonomous Vehicles – A Planner’s Response/Autonomous Vehicles: Opportunities, Challenges and the Need for Government Action/Three Signs Autonomous Vehicles Will Not Lead to Less Car Ownership and Less Car Use in Car Dependent Cities – A Case Study of Sydney, Australia/Planning for Autonomous Vehicles? Questions of Purpose, Place and Pace/Ensuring Good Governance: The Role of Planners in the Development of Autonomous Vehicles/Putting Technology in its Place

In this Interface, practitioners, scholars and transport commentators from around the world provide commentary on these dimensions of this impending technological revolution. Authors were asked to consider the implications of AV for planning in terms of governance, participation, social and ecological justice, infrastructure, economies and city design.

In the section, "Planning for Autonomous Vehicles? Questions of purpose, place and pace", Greg Marsden turns the question of the implications of AV for planners on its head to ask: “What is the future of mobility and planning trying to achieve?” In answering, he suggests that reframing the debate is necessary and powerful in considering whether and how to accommodate AV into our existing transport systems and cultures. He considers changing employment and mobility patterns and needs, changing lifestyles and diverse geographies of place all to be necessary dimensions for debate and policy consideration.