Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and private cars, while needing efficient equitable access to inexpensive and reliable transportation.
Urbanization has outpaced transportation innovation as we know it, and urban transportation issues are far more complex and diverse than they appear when viewed from a car seat. The private sector frequently offers self-driving and electric cars as a catch-all solution; additionally, the sharing/on-demand model with connected vehicles has become mainstream, human-scaled, and increasingly electrified, from cars (ZipCar, Car2Go) to bicycles (Hubway, MoBike).
The Mobility Revolution’s autonomous vehicles and car sharing have created open questions about the needed participation of the public sector, questionable suitability of automobiles in the emerging urban context, and unintended negative externalities like sprawl or autonomous congestions.
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and private cars, while needing efficient equitable access to inexpensive and reliable transportation.
Urbanization has outpaced transportation innovation as we know it, and urban transportation issues are far more complex and diverse than they appear when viewed from a car seat. The private sector frequently offers self-driving and electric cars as a catch-all solution; additionally, the sharing/on-demand model with connected vehicles has become mainstream, human-scaled, and increasingly electrified, from cars (ZipCar, Car2Go) to bicycles (Hubway, MoBike).
The Mobility Revolution’s autonomous vehicles and car sharing have created open questions about the needed participation of the public sector, questionable suitability of automobiles in the emerging urban context, and unintended negative externalities like sprawl or autonomous congestions.