The Second Edition is now out on Kindle. We updated the data where available, integrated additional analysis, and generally cleaned it up. Happy reading.

Table of Contents

• Preface: The Lost Joy of Automobility
• Climbing Mount Auto: The Rise of Cars in the 20th Century
• Less Traffic is a Good Thing
• What Killed America’s Traffic?
• Pace of Change
• Transitioning Toward Electric Vehicles
• Autonomous Autos
• MaaS Transport
• Transit
• Up and Out: The Future of Travel Demand and Where We Live
• Adapting the Built Environment
• Reduce, Reuse, Bicycle
• Accelerating the End of Traffic via Pricing
• Redeeming Transport

In this book we propose the welcome notion that traffic—as most people have come to know it—is ending and why. We depict a transport context in most communities where new opportunities are created by the collision of slow, medium, and fast moving technologies. We then unfold a framework to think more broadly about concepts of transport and accessibility. In this framework, transport systems are being augmented with a range of information technologies; it invokes fresh flows of goods and information. We discuss large scale trends that are revolutionizing the transport landscape: electrification, automation, the sharing economy, and big data. Based on all of this, the final chapters offer strategies to shape the future of infrastructure needs and priorities.

 

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An iBooks version will come eventually, but Kindle outsells iBooks about 10:1, and (sadly) iBooks is a pain to work with.