Driving Change

Travel in the Twenty-First Century

By (author) Prof. David Metz

Publication date:

06 August 2019

Publisher

Agenda Publishing

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781788211208

Drawing on comparative detail from Europe, North America, and the rest of the world, Driving Change provides a nuanced overview of the UK’s modern transport system and the role of business models and policy choices in its evolution. The common features of mobility and travel in developed economies are highlighted in order to provide a balanced appraisal of possible future developments.

The book offers a detailed consideration of the potential of new technologies – electric propulsion, digital platforms and autonomous vehicles – to offer solutions to the intractable challenges that accompany high levels of car ownership, as well as their likely impact on business and transport policy.

Driving Change is a rich analysis of the modern state of transportation and will be welcomed by students of transport studies and policy professionals tasked with developing infrastructure and the growth of the transportation industry.

Introduction

Part I Transport Legacy

1. A system under stress

2. Twentieth-century travel

Part II Twenty-first century technologies

3. Electric vehicles

4. Digital navigation

5. Digital platforms

6. Autonomous vehicles

7. Trains, planes, buses and roads

8. Twenty-first century travel

Economic, demographic and technological changes point to the need for our transport system to evolve substantially in future, raising questions of how best to achieve this given the legacy of costly past investments. In this book David Metz offers new insights into how the system as a whole needs to adapt, and wise advice about how to bring this about. Efficient, clean transportation is fundamental to a healthy economy and society; anybody with an interest in it ought to read Driving Change.