The Development Characteristics and Potential of Self-Driving Cars in Chinese Cities from the Transition Lab Perspective
To achieve the"dual carbon"target,promoting new socio-technical systems becomes the prominent issue for the transformation of production-consumption patterns in China.In the field of transportation,self-driving cars have been selected as the project for China's"Dual-Intelligence"pilot initiative due to their green,clean and intelligent features.This paper analyses the niche and socio-technical systems of self-driving cars from the perspective of Urban Transition Labs(UTLs),and compares the pilot cities.The findings are that:(1)Theoretically,as the open implementation,UTLs foster the niche required for the development and socialization of new technologies through policy experimentation and can explore the commonality of niche potential across cities,evaluate and compare different pilot cities.(2)Empirically,this paper evaluates the demonstration effectiveness of 16 pilot cities,and the main influencing factors are:the city level and industrial scale,the degree of development of the industry-university-research system,the scale of the pilot demonstration,and the scale of consumption.(3)The perspective of UTLs,which emphasizes niche,institutional and social participatory aspects,could help understand the process of niche development and the future diffusion of transition mechanisms for self-driving cars in China.
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