Recently, autonomous driving (AV) has started to receive attention in many fields, e.g. car industry, urban planners, policy makers, munici-pality administrative sectors and so on. However, it is not yet clear what urban planning need to react to autonomous driving, and what the results would be if the AV were deployed in real world in large scale.
This paper tries to clarify what impacts would autonomous vehicles (AV) has on cities in various aspects, and how micro-simulation could be used in understanding and evaluating these impacts. Through the combing of literature, this paper discusses the potential AV impacts regarding urban management, transportation system and land use. As a powerful research tool in studying AV emergence, research progress of traffic simulation in autonomous driving and city studies is reviewed, with SUMO software in particular.
Finally the study proposes the possible research directions of autonomous driving and city from the perspective of urban planning in the future.