The End of Driving

The textbook The End of Driving, 2nd Edition, authored by Bern Grush, John Niles, and Andrew Miller, presents a structural evaluation of automated vehicle adoption and emerging municipal mobility models. Written for graduate-level students and researchers in transport planning and engineering, the text clarifies how policy choices shape the shift toward autonomous road transit.

The narrative contrasts personal automated automobile ownership with shared, driverless fleet models while assessing why autonomous deployment missed earlier optimistic projections. Analysis incorporates real-world operational deployments through 2025, evaluating mixed-driver traffic conditions, zero car-ownership communities, and micro-subsidies designed to direct automation toward economic, ecological, and equity sustainability.

To assist planners in setting long-range goals, the authors detail backcasting techniques for mapping practical trajectories toward target mobility outcomes. This volume fits upper-level academic programs and government transportation planning professionals seeking analytical frameworks for surface transportation policy.