A Model for the Deployment of Shared Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Areas Based on the Research Literature

Abstract

The deployment of Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAVs) in urban areas is no longer a futuristic vision. Pilot projects are undeniable realities in various locations, and automakers research agendas are clear about this increasing autonomous trend. An ecosystem that supports the deployment of autonomous mobility is imperative, before this new type of mobility becomes a reality. Trying to understand what is absolutely essential in a city, to allow the operation of SAVs and to attract potential investors, is the aim of this research. This work started with a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), where the main concepts supporting SAVs were identified, and continued using a Topic Modeling approach, specifically Latent Dirichlet Allocation, to reach the most important topics and clusters, that were then modeled in ArchiMate into a possible ecosystem for the deployment of SAVs in urban areas. Finally, the reached model is confronted with a real case in order to establish a gap analysis between the theoretical reference model and what is already happening in Beijing. The result is an improvement of the reference model.