The urban population is growing at an exponential rate throughout the world leading to the problems related to swift and speedy mobility or issues caused by convectional mobility options. This study illustrates and explores the new ways to transport people specially taking into account the self-driving cars concept and discusses the concept of mobility 4.0 (smart / intelligent mobility) and briefly highlights the technological aspects of autonomous vehicles, adaptation advantages and progress in laws and legislations of autonomous vehicle. The study is primarily qualitative and relies on the work of previous researcher, technical reports and blogs but the part of this study is quantitative where empirical data was collected from the experts in a conference held by BBG Austria. The result of the studies shows adaptation readiness of Austrian professional market and business prospects associated with autonomous vehicles Moreover, different business models are suggested, which could be adopted to incorporate the driverless vehicles in day-to-day life of an individual living in urban environment. The models basically suggest that the adaptation of the technology would help curbing transport externalities especially external cost associated to transportation of each individual; which includes congestion, accident, infrastructure costs and environmental costs which are incurred by least efficient conventional cars and would also help shrinking the diseases like premature mortality, aggravation of respiratory as well as cardiovascular disease and sleep disturbance which are the result of city level congestion and pollution. (author's abstract) / Series: Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Transportwirtschaft und Logistik - Verkehr

The future of mobility is changing at an exponential rate, as every day passes it moves closer to the goal of complete autonomy, therefore, it is safe to say that the adaptation of self-driving cars in near future is no more a matter of science fiction. Keeping in view the rapid evolution of mobility, this study tries to enlighten and compile the importance of autonomous vehicles in our daily life by highlighting monetary and societal advantages of adaptation. Moreover, it analysis the Austrian expert's opinion on the topic of adaptation of the self- driving cars and business prospects with autonomous vehicles for current businesses. The data on these two questions was collected in a workshop using Delphi method, where experts from varied professional backgrounds participated. But mainly the participants of the controlled group were representatives of public procurement, energy and automobile industry/sector. After a detailed presentation and discussion over the topic, the participants were asked for their views on forth mentioned two questions. Their opinions were recorded and visualized on a custom made graph and further analyzed using the descriptive statistical tool. At the end of the question and answer session a vast majority of experts, which is approximately 80%, thought that there is a good possibility of adaptation of autonomous vehicles in near future. But on the other hand relatively less percentage of experts were confident about the bright future for current businesses in automobile industry; They argued that the current business decorum would change dramatically in a couple of decades and this would be the question of survival of the fittest and smartest.

Today more and more people buy second-hand products on internet. As the typical durable goods, second-hand cars are very popular among consumers. In recent years, the sale of second-hand cars increases quickly in China. In addition, there is still potential in the second-hand market. On the other hand, consumers are the subject in the second-hand market. So what consumers take into consideration is important when buying second-hand cars. We have chosen some social factors that influence consumers’ decision when they purchase second-hand cars. Furthermore, we have analyzed the importance of these social factors and the relationship between factors.The purpose of this study is to give vehicle dealers a guide how consumers with different characteristics will pay attention to different factors of the cars but also to guide consumers to make a rational decision when they buy second-hand cars.We have chosen the EKB model as our basic theory. A quantitative research approach and cross sectional research design were used in this study. The link of our questionnaire was published in Baidu Tieba after being designed by SOJUMP and we collected 151 responses. Then, respondent demographics, cross tabulations analysis, one-way ANOVA analysis, Cronbach’s alpha, and sorting analysis were analyzed.The results show that information about the real condition of the car is the most important factor influencing customers when purchasing second-hand cars, price is the second most influencing factor, vehicle model and brand are the third and the fourth respectively, after-sales service ranks the least as most influencing factor.

Esta pesquisa apresentará estudos das linguagens aplicadas ao design gráfico através de estudos e análises de trabalhos impressos que possuem representações do automóvel em seu projeto. Seu objetivo é identifi car e analisar cartazes em seu formato e conteúdo, de forma a documentar e compreender o desenvolvimento dessa atividade no recorte de tempo que abrigou os diferentes estilos estéticos que compõem o design gráfico moderno. Esse período compreende o fim do século XIX até o final da década de 1960. Para tanto, será necessário o estudo de fatores sociais, culturais, políticos, históricos, econômicos e tecnológicos que influenciaram o desenvolvimento destes projetos. Dessa forma, esta pesquisa agrupará, de forma ainda rara, informações e projetos de design gráfi- co relacionados com o universo do automóvel e automobilismo. Além disso, ela possibilitará compreender as formas que o designer encontrou para retratar um objeto que gradualmente se transformou de novidade em ícone da sociedade. / The present work aim to study of visual languages applied to graphic design by analysing printed works that has automobiles representations in it\'s project. The main objective is to identify and analyse posters judging by their format and content, in order to document and understand the development of this activity during the period of time where the different aestethics styles that compose the modern graphic design. This period is between the XIX century until the end of the 1940\'s. (Therefore,) it is necessary to study the social, cultural, political, historical, economical and technological factors during that period to fully comprehend the infl uences on the development of such projects. Thus, this research presents, in a rare form, informations and graphic design projects related to the automobile universe and the automobilism. Furthermore, this research will contribute to understand the ways the designer found to represent an object that gradually transformed from novelty to a society icon.

Wide spread consumer adoption of self-driving cars (SDC) is predicated on a level of trust between humans and the autonomous vehicle. Despite advances being made in the technical abilities of SDCs, recent studies indicate that people are negatively predisposed toward utilizing autonomous vehicles. To bridge the gap between consumer skepticism and adoption of SDCs, research is needed to better understand the evolution of trust between humans and growing autonomous technologies. The question of mainstream acceptance and requisite trust is explored through integration of virtual reality SDC simulator, an electroencephalographic (EEG) recorder, and a new approach for real-time trust measurement between passengers and SDCs. An experiment on fifty human subjects was conducted where participants were exposed to scenarios designed to induce positive and negative trust responses. Emotional state was quantified by the EEG beta wave to alpha wave power ratio, and participants self-reported their levels of trust in the SDC after each segment. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Uma das marcas da passagem de uma sociedade tradicional, pessoalista, para uma sociedade moderna é o desenvolvimento da impessoalidade nas relações de sociabilidade. A cidade moderna se caracterizou por ampliar essas relações, que deixam de ser restritas aos espaços privados e passam a ocorrer também nos espaços públicos. Um dos lugares nos quais se desenvolvia a sociabilidade era nos bondes. Por terem existido no Brasil desde final do século XIX até a década de 1970, os bondes marcaram, do ponto de vista do transporte coletivo, um momento significativo do desenvolvimento do país, uma vez que estiveram presentes durante o processo de crescimento de muitas cidades, constituindo-se como um dos principais elementos indutores do crescimento urbano e de integração de diferentes espaços, como, por exemplo, entre os arrabaldes, mais adiante bairros, e o centro das cidades. A tese desenvolvida neste estudo é a de que os bondes, além de terem contribuído para o desenvolvimento urbano, integrando espaços físicos e expandindo a cidade, contribuíram também para a inserção do indivíduo na cidade moderna pelo exercício cotidiano de sociabilidade que as viagens propiciavam. Essa sociabilidade não acontecia apenas no interior dos bondes, na relação indivíduo e espaço, as aberturas laterais, que permitiam subir e descer praticamente em qualquer lugar, depois as janelas grandes e abertas, também possibilitavam que o indivíduo estivesse mais próximo do espaço físico da cidade e das pessoas que caminhavam ou se assomavam nas janelas para ver o bonde passar rente às suas calçadas. A pesquisa teve como objetivo geral investigar as representações sociais e o imaginário coletivo construído sobre as viagens de bonde e sobre a cidade durante as viagens. A partir dessas representações, buscou-se, primeiro, compreender qual o papel dos bondes como elementos estruturadores da cidade para depois analisar as interações sociais que ocorriam em seu interior e discutir a relação indivíduo-espaço. O recorte urbano temporal foi a cidade de Porto Alegre, capital do Rio Grande do Sul, entre 1890 e 1945, no alcance físico das suas linhas de bonde. A escolha por este recorte temporal deu-se pela importância que teve este período para o desenvolvimento e modernização da cidade, especialmente na área de transporte, como a construção da Av. Borges de Medeiros, Av. Farrapos e a canalização do Arroio Ipiranga, entre outras obras relevantes para a cidade. / One of the marks of the passage from a traditional society, personalistic, to a modern society is the development of impersonality in sociability relationships. The modern city is characterized by expanding these relations, which are no longer restricted to private spaces but also begin to occur in public ones. One of the places in which sociability where developed was the cable cars. According to the commom point of view, the cable cars marked a significant moment in the development of the country for having existed in Brazil since the late 19th century until the 1970s, once they were present in the growth process of many cities, establishing itself as one of the driving elements of urban growth and integration of different areas, such as, between the suburbs, further neighborhoods, and the city centers. The thesis developed in this study is that the cable cars, not only having contributed to the urban development, by integrating physical spaces and expanding the city, but also contributed to the insertion of the individual in the modern city by the daily sociability exercise which the trips provided. This sociability did not just happened inside the cable cars, the individual and space relationship, the side openings, which allowed passengers to get on and off almost anywhere, and the big and open windows also made it possible for the individual to be close to the physical space of the city and the people who walked or loomed by the window to see the cable car pass close to its sidewalks. The research aimed to investigate the social representations and the collective imaginary built on the cable car rides and the city during these trips. From these representations, it was sought to first understand which role the cable cars had, as structural elements of the city, and then analyse the social interactions that took place inside it and the relationship between individual and space. The temporal urban range was Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, between 1890 e 1945, in its cable car extension lines. The choice for this time range was given by the importance this period had for the city development and modernization, especially in the transport area, such as the construction of Borges de Medeiros Ave., Farrapos Ave. and the canalization of Arroio Ipiranga, among other relevant works for the city.

Automobile dashboards are evolving into intelligent largely screen-based computer interfaces. Recent evidence suggests unnatural aspects of some secondary systems (including infotainment systems). Naturalness of interaction is a minority discipline not yet applied to the automobile; while automotive interface research is a mainly quantitative discipline that has not yet applied a naturalness approach. To advance the field, a measurement scale based on rigorous qualitative exploration of natural-feeling interaction with secondary controls was required. Study 1 used ethnographic interview with Contextual Inquiry inside 12 ordinary drivers' cars, to investigate natural-feeling aspects of past, present and future driver-car interactions. Thematic analysis suggested a framework of ten characteristics. Half concerned control and physicality; half concerned perceived socio-intelligent behaviours of the car. Study 2 involved intensive exploratory workshops with ten drivers comprising Think Aloud, artefact modelling and focus groups, to explore natural-feeling interaction with secondary controls in different ways. The resulting thematic framework comprised 11 characteristics in four categories: familiarity/control, physical connection, low visual/cognitive demand, and humanlike intelligence and communication. Study 3 comprised two ethnographic participant observations. Eight drivers were observed interacting with their controls during long road journeys. Twenty-two drivers were observed interacting verbally with futuristic 'intelligent' secondary systems while driving on public roads. Design guidelines relating to physicality, usability, automation, and humanlike communication were formulated. Study 4 converted all the qualitative findings into a questionnaire comprising 46 bipolar five-point scales. Eighty-one drivers used it to rate one control in their cars. Correlation and factor analyses revealed three underlying factors and 14 items suitable for the first industrially applicable measurement scale for driver-car naturalness. These items concern perceived helpfulness, politeness, competence, predictability, control, ease, mental demands, intuitiveness, 'realness', instantaneousness, communication, logical location, mapping and 'affordance'. Initial testing found acceptable validity. The conclusion recommends further data collection, expanded validity testing, and potential applications to self-driving cars.

Automotive manufacturers are competing to be the first to introduce customer-ready autonomous vehicles. Some manufacturers are claiming to launch their first self-driving cars as early as 2020. Which all sounds very good and futuristic; however, the question arises, are customers even ready to adopt this new technological advancement? Therefore, this pilot study is aimed at finding out the answer to this question in the Austrian market. This study discovers the standpoint of Austrian consumers concerning the acceptance of self-driving cars for daily usage and gives an overview of the current point of view regarding autonomous vehicles (AVs). The data for this study was collected using an online, user-friendly, Likert scale survey. The collected data were processed and analyzed for empirical significance in SPSS using Spearman's rank correlation and the Mann-Whitney U test supported by descriptive analysis. The results of the study indicate that Austrian consumers are well aware of autonomous vehicles and their technology. However, they have specific concerns about reliability, cybersecurity, and futuristic car-sharing models. Therefore, these concerns about AVs should be addressed by auto manufactures in order to gain consumers' trust and sell them a new form of mobility.

quot;Boy racersquot; or quot;hoonsquot; attract extensive media attention and are often the focus of public concern. Discourses about quot;hooningquot; often focus on notions of public safety and illegal behaviour. What is largely absent from these debates is alternative explanations as to why young people choose to engage in quot;hooningquot; behaviour, what drives them to congregate in public spaces and why they choose to express themselves through an quot;autocentricquot; culture. When these issues are addressed it is usually within broader policy frameworks which seek ways of dissipating youth activities in spaces constructed as quot;trouble spotsquot;. This thesis represents an attempt to provide a reverse discourse about youth car culture and young people's presence in public spaces. Criminal activity not withstanding, youth car culture behaviour in this context is treated as a legitimate form of cultural expression that has the same social validity as other non-mainstream phenomena. Through feminist and poststructuralist understandings of identities, landscapes and place, the complexities of youth car culture will be unpacked in an attempt to expose quot;concernsquot; which may turn out to be little more than moral panic.

University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Business. / This thesis examines the concept of differential advantage and its relevance to the formulation of marketing strategy. It compares the model of market share determination, based on the possession of differential advantages in marketing mix variables, with one based on the concept of marketing effort. The two models are examined using data on new passenger car registrations collected from Idaps and Paxus1 respectively, media spend from Bruce Tart and Associates, and later AIM Data2, car dealerships from the Telecom Yellow Pages, and car models and new passenger car prices from Wheels Magazine, for the period 1983 to 1993. The above data was corroborated, where possible, by means of authoritative sources in the motor car industry in Australia. The theory of market share determination, based on share of marketing effort is an attractive one. This thesis finds that the relationship between market share3 and share of marketing effort is positive, consistent and statistically significant. It confirms the place of marketing effort as a model of market share determination in the marketing literature. Differential advantage is an index of competitive activity that is calculated by subtracting concurrent market share from share of marketing effort. The proposition, advanced by Cook and Rothberg (1990), is that increasing amounts of differential advantage are positively related to increasing levels of market share. This thesis does not support this proposition. At an overall level of analysis, the relationship between market share and differential advantage is a negative one. Only when a subset analysis is done, for small car makers, is there a weak but statistically significant and positive relationship between market share and differential advantage. The overall negative relationship between market share and differential advantage may be explained in part by the economic uncertainty of a boom and economic recession during the period under consideration in this thesis. A further possible explanation is that the data may not have captured fully the relationship between market share and differential advantage. The data examined the relationship between market share and differential advantage with only four independent variables. A larger number of independent variables, or different ones, may have described the relationship more effectively. Such data was not available. A more fundamental conclusion that is supported by this thesis is that successful competitive strategy simply does not require share of marketing investments to be greater than concurrent market share. The place of differential advantage in the formulation of marketing strategy is questioned. This thesis supports the value of competitive marketing effort in the formulation of marketing strategy.