Autonomous Symmetry
Traffic Analysis + City Planning, but for Automated Traffic
Can Cities Salvage the Pedestrian Experience?
With package-moving trucks still using existing bridges and roads on the ground, future traffic systems made up of autonomous vehicles will need to be computer-controlled, grade-separate, and controlled down to every car and mini-bus. All of this can be designed and legally consented to in advance. Cities have the ability to plan, choose, and design automated traffic routes today based on how automated traffic can transform the pedestrian experience.
The desire for a healthy and creative environment for workers and residents shifted city planners' priorities from pushing for better sidewalks to evangelizing the need for pedestrian-only greenways and walking paths which are separate from car traffic.
Automated traffic could give cities a second chance to build meaningful pedestrian infrastructure. In Atlanta, there could be a historic opportunity to convert several streets into an inter-connected grid of linear greenways.​​
Atlanta
new linear parks
an evolving grid of autonomous freeways
to frame a unified central business district
