Tomorrow's Transportation
Changing Cities, Economies, and Lives
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2000
341 pages
978-1-59693-122-0 (ISBN)
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Tomorrow's Transportation: Changing Cities, Economies, and Lives offers a broad, engaging look at current and emergent developments in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), and at how improved transportation systems can have a significant impact on lifestyles in the future. It is an excellent guide for transportation department officials and planners, as well as ITS technology professionals working in mobile communications, computer and software engineering, smart sensor technology, and in transportation infrastructures worldwide.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents v
- Preface xv
- 1 A Bit of Perspective 1
- The window on the world for most people is their car window 5
- And so... 5
- References 6
- Part I: The Car and Traffic 7
- 2 The Car that Can Drive Itself 9
- But other things have changed very little... 11
- Tip of the iceberg 13
- Hands-off freeway driving 13
- The driver becomes a passenger 14
- New, exclusive highways? 16
- Continuing evolution 17
- Designing the system: we emulate the human 17
- The end of driving? 20
- The nondriver isn't anymore 20
- The automated car offers more than just automation 21
- Platooning 21
- It's not just for moving people 22
- Brave new world! 24
- References 25
- 3 Congestion: The Devil We Know 27
- Ultimate gridlock 28
- Is congestion increasing? 29
- A paradox? 31
- A short story about the suburbs 32
- What congestion is costing us 34
- Just part of the story 35
- We can do better 37
- References 37
- 4 Congestion: What Are We Doing about It? 39
- The broad prescription for congestion relief 40
- Traffic control and the intelligent transportation system program 41
- Better public transportation 45
- Car pooling 48
- Reversible lanes 50
- High-occupancy vehicle lanes 50
- Vehicle automation 51
- Other favorites 51
- Where does all this leave us? 52
- References 53
- 5 Congestion: A Better Strategy? 55
- Freeway Traffic Flow 101: The nature of the phenomenon 56
- A freeway game 60
- So once again-the prescription 60
- What, then, to do? 61
- Off the freeway-surface streets 63
- The waiting line bugaboo 64
- Road pricing, the economists' favorite 65
- The synergy of metering plus pricing 67
- Looking ahead: a summary 67
- Selected bibliography 68
- Appendix 5A: Variable driver behavior and the highway capacity curve 70
- 6 Some New Kinds of Cars 73
- The commuter car 73
- On a different track: the neighborhood car 76
- Imagine more 78
- Getting started 79
- Operations and impact-the commuter car 80
- Operations and impact-the neighborhood car 82
- Headwinds 83
- References 84
- Part II: The City and Transportation 87
- 7 Transportation and the Evolution of the City 89
- The birth of the modern city 92
- The quality of life 94
- Whither now? 96
- Selected bibliography 97
- 8 The Modern Dilemma: What to Do? 99
- Relative roles 103
- Service in the suburbs-thin, diffuse travel patterns 105
- But once in the car 106
- Where does this leave us? 107
- What, then, to do? 107
- Innovation 110
- Next 111
- References 111
- 9 A New Kind of Minicity 113
- References 119
- 10 The Second-Story City 121
- Let's push the envelope 123
- Revitalize our downtowns? 123
- Reference 124
- 11 The Variegated City 125
- Cities thrive by variegating 126
- Looking ahead at trends-folk living everywhere 127
- How we live-is everything old new again? 128
- Chauffeuring 130
- How we work 131
- The variegated city 133
- References 134
- 12 Variegated Transportation for Variegated Cities 135
- Electric streetcars and the two-step dance 137
- Public-private roles in how things happen 140
- Constrained exploring 144
- References 145
- Part III: Energy and Emissions 147
- 13 Energy Use and Pollutant Emissions 149
- Transportation energy consumption by mode 153
- Pollution 155
- Where are we going? 156
- What can we do about it? 157
- Everything we do involves tradeoffs 158
- Higher fuel prices? 160
- The fuel cell and the hydrogen possibility 161
- What, then, to do now? 162
- References 163
- Part IV: Between Cities: Rail and Other Ground Transportation Systems 165
- 14 The Innovation that Changed the World: How Did It Happen? 167
- England in 1800-"Built out" 168
- The Stockton and Darlington Railway 169
- The recipe for discovery 172
- References 176
- 15 America and the Two-Step Dance 177
- Shallow stuff 179
- The two-step dance 180
- Digging deeper 181
- Creative destruction and the devil we know 184
- United States in 2000: "Built out" 184
- References 185
- 16 Where Are We Today? 187
- The highway and road system 187
- The air system 189
- The rail system 190
- Safety 192
- About freight transportation 193
- But there are problems 193
- It's not hopeless 194
- References 196
- 17 Where Would We Like to Go? 197
- Goal #1: lower the costs of small batch movements 198
- Goal #2: significantly reduce trip time for both passengers and freight 201
- Goal #3: lower costs overall 203
- Other dimensions of performance 204
- References 204
- 18 Serendipity 205
- Separate highways? 206
- Why not TOFC or COFC everywhere? 208
- Minitrains? Individual, self-powered cars? 211
- What does that kind of single vehicle or minitrain capability gain us? 213
- Back to our original problem-getting the trucks off the highway 215
- But wait! 216
- References 216
- 19 Beyond Railroading: a New System 219
- Thinking about fixed guideway options 222
- The implications of our desires 222
- There is more to speed than just speed 225
- Networks versus closed circuits: the need for switching 226
- Guideway options 227
- Maglev 229
- Very high speed: a fly in the ointment? 230
- References 231
- 20 A Superspeed Highway 233
- The old familiar problem 237
- Fixed guideway or high-speed highway? 238
- What do we propose? 239
- 21 Big and Slow, but Cheap! 241
- The dance goes on 243
- Suggestions 245
- Why not more blood from those turnips? 246
- With a little help from our friends 247
- Full circle 248
- References 248
- Part V: The Air Transportation System 249
- 22 To Grandmother's House We Fly 251
- Urban terminals 255
- Terminal interiors 257
- Around the airport 258
- The airside 259
- The airport system of the future? 260
- Faster airplanes? 261
- Technology, congestion 263
- Selected bibliography 265
- References 266
- 23 The Los Angeles Airport System in 2020, 2040, 2060-a Parable 267
- The tyranny of the seminal decision 268
- The view from 2000 271
- The dilemma of 2000 275
- The hub-and-spoke route structure 276
- The continuing evolution 277
- A zero-sum game? 279
- The Airport Planning Commission of 2020-and what actually happened in the prior 20 years 280
- Improving technology and the sharper sword 281
- The upshot: what actually happened 283
- The view from 2020 looking forward 286
- The view from 2040? 287
- References 287
- Part VI: The New Millennium 289
- 24 Communication and Transportation 291
- What's going on? 292
- It takes two to tango 294
- Synergies and impacts: looking around and looking back 294
- Globalization 296
- The downside 298
- Adolescence 300
- References 301
- 25 Optimism 303
- References 308
- About the Authors 309
- Index 311
