Tomorrow's Transportation : Changing Cities, Economies, and Lives,9781580530965

Tomorrow's Transportation : Changing Cities, Economies, and Lives

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781580530965
ISBN10: 1580530966
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Artech House
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Jerry D. Ward is the former director of research and development policy for the United States Department of Transportation and was a senior associate in transportation for the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress.

Table of Contents

Preface xv
A Bit of Perspective
1(6)
The window on the world for most people is their car window
5(1)
And so...
5(1)
References
6(1)
Part I: The Car and Traffic 7(80)
The Car that Can Drive Itself
9(18)
But other things have changed very little
11(2)
Tip of the iceberg
13(1)
Hands-off freeway driving
13(1)
The driver becomes a passenger
14(2)
New, exclusive highways?
16(1)
Continuing evolution
17(1)
Designing the system: we emulate the human
17(3)
The end of driving?
20(1)
The nondriver isn't anymore
20(1)
The automated car offers more than just automation
21(1)
Platooning
21(1)
It's not just for moving people
22(2)
Brave new world!
24(1)
References
25(2)
Congestion: The Devil We Know
27(12)
Ultimate gridlock
28(1)
Is congestion increasing?
29(2)
A paradox?
31(1)
A short story about the suburbs
32(2)
What congestion is costing us
34(1)
Just part of the story
35(2)
We can do better
37(1)
References
37(2)
Congestion: What Are We Doing about It?
39(16)
The broad prescription for congestion relief
40(1)
Traffic control and the intelligent transportation system program
41(4)
Traffic management systems
41(2)
On-the-roll toll collection
43(1)
Driver and traveler information systems
43(1)
Accident reduction
44(1)
Route guidance
44(1)
In summary
44(1)
Better public transportation
45(3)
Car pooling
48(2)
Reversible lanes
50(1)
High-occupancy vehicle lanes
50(1)
Vehicle automation
51(1)
Other favorites
51(1)
Where does all this leave us?
52(1)
References
53(2)
Congestion: A Better Strategy?
55(18)
Freeway Traffic Flow 101: The nature of the phenomenon
56(4)
A freeway game
60(1)
So once again---the prescription
60(1)
What, then, to do?
61(2)
Off the freeway---surface streets
63(1)
The waiting line bugaboo
64(1)
Road pricing, the economists' favorite
65(2)
The synergy of metering plus pricing
67(1)
Looking ahead: a summary
67(1)
Selected bibliography
68(2)
Variable driver behavior and the highway capacity curve
70(3)
Some New Kinds of Cars
73(14)
The commuter car
73(3)
On a different track: the neighborhood car
76(2)
Imagine more
78(1)
Getting started
79(1)
Operations and impact---the commuter car
80(2)
Operations and impact---the neighborhood car
82(1)
Headwinds
83(1)
References
84(3)
Part II: The City and Transportation 87(60)
Transporation and the Evolution of the City
89(10)
The birth of the modern city
92(2)
The quality of life
94(2)
Whither now?
96(1)
Selected bibliography
97(2)
The Modern Dilemma: What to Do?
99(14)
Relative roles
103(2)
Service in the suburbs---thin, diffuse travel patterns
105(1)
But once in the car
106(1)
Where does this leave us?
107(1)
What, then, to do?
107(3)
About our downtowns?
107(1)
Emulate Europe?
108(1)
Transit in perspective
108(1)
The road system
109(1)
Innovation
110(1)
Next
111(1)
References
111(2)
A New Kind of Minicity
113(8)
References
119(2)
The Second-Story City
121(4)
Let's push the envelope
123(1)
Revitalize our downtowns?
123(1)
Reference
124(1)
The Variegated City
125(10)
Cities thrive by variegating
126(1)
Looking ahead at trends---folk living everywhere
127(1)
How we live---is everything old new again?
128(2)
Chauffeuring
130(1)
How we work
131(2)
The variegated city
133(1)
References
134(1)
Variegated Transportation for Variegated Cities
135(12)
Electric streetcars and the two-step dance
137(3)
Public---private roles in how things happen
140(4)
Constrained exploring
144(1)
References
145(2)
Part III: Energy and Emissions 147(18)
Energy Use and Pollutant Emissions
149(16)
Transportation energy consumption by mode
153(2)
Pollution
155(1)
Where are we going?
156(1)
What can we do about it?
157(1)
Everything we do involves tradeoffs
158(2)
Higher fuel prices?
160(1)
The fuel cell and the hydrogen possibility
161(1)
What, then, to do now?
162(1)
References
163(2)
Part IV: Between Cities: Rail and Other Ground Transportation Systems 165(84)
The Innovation that Changed the World: How Did It Happen?
167(10)
England in 1800---``Built out''
168(1)
The Stockton and Darlington Railway
169(3)
The recipe for discovery
172(4)
References
176(1)
America and the Two-Step Dance
177(10)
Shallow stuff
179(1)
The two-step dance
180(1)
Digging deeper
181(3)
Creative destruction and the devil we know
184(1)
United States in 2000: ``Built out''
184(1)
References
185(2)
Where Are We Today?
187(10)
The highway and road system
187(2)
The air system
189(1)
The rail system
190(2)
Safety
192(1)
About freight transportation
193(1)
But there are problems
193(1)
It's not hopeless
194(2)
References
196(1)
Where Would We Like to Go?
197(8)
lower the costs of small batch movements
198(3)
significantly reduce trip time for both passengers and freight
201(2)
lower costs overall
203(1)
Other dimensions of performance
204(1)
References
204(1)
Serendipity
205(14)
Separate highways?
206(2)
Why not TOFC or COFC everywhere?
208(3)
Minitrains? Individual, self-powered cars?
211(2)
What does that kind of single vehicle or minitrain capability gain us?
213(2)
Back to our original problem---getting the trucks off the highway
215(1)
But wait!
216(1)
References
216(3)
Beyond Railroading: a New System
219(14)
Thinking about fixed guideway options
222(1)
The implications of our desires
222(3)
There is more to speed than just speed
225(1)
Networks versus closed circuits: the need for switching
226(1)
Guideway options
227(2)
Maglev
229(1)
Very high speed: a fly in the ointment?
230(1)
References
231(2)
A Superspeed Highway
233(8)
The old familiar problem
237(1)
Fixed guideway or high-speed highway?
238(1)
What do we propose?
239(2)
Big and slow, but Cheap!
241(8)
The dance goes on
243(2)
Suggestions
245(1)
Why not more blood from those turnips?
246(1)
With a little help from our friends
247(1)
Full circle
248(1)
References
248(1)
Part V: The Air Transportation System 249(40)
To Grandmother's House We Fly
251(16)
Urban terminals
255(2)
Terminal interiors
257(1)
Around the airport
258(1)
The airside
259(1)
The airport system of the future?
260(1)
Faster airplanes?
261(2)
Technology, congestion
263(2)
Selected bibliography
265(1)
References
266(1)
The Los Angeles Airport System in 2020, 2040, 2060---a Parable
267(22)
The tyranny of the seminal decision
268(3)
The view from 2000
271(4)
The dilemma of 2000
275(1)
The hub-and-spoke route structure
276(1)
The continuing evolution
277(2)
A zero-sum game?
279(1)
The Airport Planning Commission of 2020---and what actually happened in the prior 20 years
280(1)
Improving technology and the sharper sword
281(2)
The up-shot: what actually happened
283(3)
The view from 2020 looking forward
286(1)
The view from 2040?
287(1)
References
287(2)
Part VI: The New Millennium 289(20)
Communication and Transportation
291(12)
What's going on?
292(2)
It takes two to tango
294(1)
Synergies and impacts: looking around and looking back
294(2)
Globalization
296(2)
The downside
298(2)
Adolescence
300(1)
References
301(2)
Optimism
303(6)
References
308(1)
About the Authors 309(2)
Index 311

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