The Evolution of Transport
Jesse H. Ausubel and Cesare Marchetti
Abstract
Travel benefits from orientation-fixed points by which to
navigate. Our aim is to provide some fixed points derived from a
technical analysis of transport systems that enables us to
understand past travel and prepare for the future. Along the way,
the lunacy of popular ideas such as car pooling, telecommuting, and
the revival of traditional railroads will become clear. Instead, we
offer something far more beautiful: a transport system emitting
zero pollutants and sparing the surface landscape, while people on
average range hundreds of kilometers daily on a system of
"green" mobility.
This paper appeared in the April/May 2001 issue of the magazine
The Industrial Physicist,
on pages 20-24.
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See also:
Toward Green Mobility, the Evolution
of Transport, which appeared in the journal The European
Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, 137-156 (1998).
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