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The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport: Second Edition

by David Levinson and Kevin Krizek · 17 Aug 2015 · 257pp · 64,285 words

of the global population will live by 205010 and how they will satisfy their daily needs—we write about the future of transport in cities. Ours is far from the first book on the future of transport, and we hope not the last. A similar work appeared 15 years ago by the person to whom this

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the timeframes of change keep transportation practice lagging far behind imagined transportation potential (Chapter 4). The second part examines upcoming processes that will shape the future of transportation or its consequences: Electrification (Chapter 5), Dematerialization (Chapter 6), Autonomy (Chapter 7), Mobility-as-a-Service (Chapter 8). While these changes are still mostly too

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frustrated by the pace of change off of it. Such dissonance provides a window through which to see the forces at work in shaping the future of transport. 5. Transitioning Toward Electric Vehicles In 1900, over one-quarter of the cars produced in the US were electric, but that only amounted to 1200

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will find a more predictable environment and capacity and throughput increased significantly. 14. Redeeming Transport We title this book The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport. Vehicle travel in fully industrialized countries is falling, slowing, or stagnant.328 Per-capita vehicle travel in the US is roughly where it was in

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, the innovate upstart versus the hidebound local regulator." — Anthony Townsend340 In previous chapters we described what has happened, or more speculatively, what might happen. The future of transport has always had more unknowns than knowns. Its overall character depends on many moving parts, and primary among them is how quickly forms of innovation

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changes are rarely wise and even less politically acceptable, with entrenched interests having accumulated power desirous of maintaining (or expanding) the status quo. If the future of transport does not involve more information technology and more automation, we will be both surprised and disappointed. Its exact shape and character is hard to pin

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words

Road to Nowhere Road to Nowhere What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation Paris Marx First published by Verso 2022 © Paris Marx, 2022 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted 1 3 5

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. In the central chapters of the book I apply those histories to critically dissect some of the most prominent of tech’s proposals for the future of transportation and cities. I cover electric vehicles, ride-hailing services, and self-driving cars; the Boring Company’s tunnel system and Uber’s vision for flying

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what we should take away from the failings of the technological solutions to our urban crises, and lay out a vision for a more equitable future of transportation and of urban life. That vision is not anti-technology. But it recognizes that technology is not the primary driver in creating fairer and more

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travel of capitalism. This book looks at the future of this entwined and complex relationship. But before critiquing the tech industry’s visions for the future of transportation, we need to understand how we got here and how the mobility problems they claim to be concerned about arose in the first place. That

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to begin with. Sadly, that is not just Uber’s story, but the reality of so many of the tech industry’s ideas for the future of transportation and cities. More technology and regulatory rollbacks do not solve fundamentally political problems; they just allow wealthy, powerful people to impose their will on everyone

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in industries outside of its main competency. In the early part of the 2010s, the company and its founders took a particular interest in the future of transportation, and naturally influenced how the entire industry—and much of the public—thought about how we should move in the years and decades ahead. Sergey

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also ignored the politics and social relations that are key to our mobility. The founders, executives, and venture capitalists that back these initiatives for the future of transportation have a very narrow experience of the city. Their proposed solutions respond to the problems of urban life as they experience them—not as most

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

by Megan Kimble · 2 Apr 2024 · 430pp · 117,211 words

that TxDOT operated with essentially no federal oversight. On February 4, TxDOT issued its record of decision for the North Houston Highway Improvement Project. “The future of transportation is changing and the infrastructure in the nation’s fourth largest city needs to change with it,” TxDOT announced. This project would help Houston prepare

The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here

by Nicole Kobie · 3 Jul 2024 · 348pp · 119,358 words

electrically. The failure of the Samuda brothers5 to make their piston-based pneumatic railways work didn’t end the belief that atmospheric railways were the future of transport. Earlier I mentioned Thomas Webster Rammell and Josiah Latimer Clark, who patented a way to send messages and packages via pneumatic tubes. Latimer Clark began

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the train couldn’t take passengers, meaning officials stood in a temporary shelter and watched the train go by – hardly an impressive demonstration of the future of transport. Had the project been wound down more carefully, Claydon says, the technology they developed might have been put to good use. Or, as the report

Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths

by Steven M. Gorelick · 9 Dec 2009 · 257pp · 94,168 words

unintended consequence of a reduction in oil use is social disintegration of some oil-exporting nations. How do oil price and price stability affect the future of transportation fuels? Consumers like inexpensive gasoline. In the US, the drop in gasoline price in 2009 to its long-term, historical average of $2.25 per

On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City

by Evan Friss · 6 May 2019 · 314pp · 85,637 words

pedal-assist versions.3 Where e-bikes belong in New York is one of the still unsettled questions about the bicycle’s place in the future of transportation. How can the city improve bike safety and eliminate bicycle-pedestrian crashes and bicycle-motor vehicle crashes (still a far too common, and even deadly

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

by Daniel Yergin · 14 May 2011 · 1,373pp · 300,577 words

ago, the answer seemed pretty clear: more of the same. Transportation would continue to be based on oil. No longer. A new race for the future of transportation has begun. Its outcome will determine what kind of automobiles people around the world will be driving two or three decades from now and whether

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the Detroit Electric and the Baker Runabout—that department stores used for deliveries. Edison was convinced that batteries would be a major component in the future of transportation. He triumphantly wrote to Samuel Insull in 1910, promising the electricity tycoon a major new market for electricity. Or, as Edison put it, “to add

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

by Daniel Yergin · 14 Sep 2020

pressures and investor and regulatory requirements, to “solve” carbon, to participate in renewables and new technologies, to develop economic carbon capture, to play in the future of transportation, to be part of the digital economy, to ensure optionality, and to preserve their “license to operate.” They are investing with the “energy transition” in

Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil

by Hamish McKenzie · 30 Sep 2017 · 307pp · 90,634 words

by 2021. With the Gigafactory, Tesla has again positioned itself as a pioneer in an industry worth many billions of dollars. Anyone interested in the future of transportation and the energy economy should watch that building down the road from USA Tavern with utmost attention. * * * It was close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit at

Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain

by Christian Wolmar · 1 Mar 2009 · 493pp · 145,326 words

, a man who had cut his teeth on the railways and steered through the legislation, left them to their own devices, perhaps sensing that the future of transport lay elsewhere. He went off first to a directorship in the motor industry, with Dunlop, and then into aviation, becoming chairman of Imperial Airways, the