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All work and no play? How will we spend time in driverless cars?
New research from the Institute for Transport Studies uses chauffeured passengers to better understand whether travel time will be more “worthwhile” in fully automated vehicles.
Planning for Leeds’ driverless future
A new study from Professor Simon Shepherd and Professor Anthony May has predicted the effects driverless cars could have on urban transport systems and public behaviour in the City of Leeds.
Research into human-automation interaction given the green light
ITS academic, Dr Gustav Markkula, awarded prestigious EPSRC fellowship to research safe coexistence of humans and self-driving vehicles.
Prestigious Turing Institute Fellowships awarded to our researchers
Six researchers from the Faculty of Environment have been awarded a prestigious fellowship with The Alan Turing Institute.
Investigating commuter exposure to air pollution in Leeds
In early June 2018, ITS staff and students studied commuter exposure to fine particles using portable instruments (particle number counters) when commuting to and from a street in Headingley.