Tomorrow's Transportation: Changing Cities, Economies, and Lives (Artech House Its Library)

Contents  v......Page 7
Preface  xv......Page 17
1  A Bit of Perspective  1......Page 23
And so...  5......Page 27
References  6......Page 28
Part I: The Car and Traffic  7......Page 29
2  The Car that Can Drive Itself  9......Page 31
But other things have changed very little...  11......Page 33
Hands-off freeway driving  13......Page 35
The driver becomes a passenger  14......Page 36
New, exclusive highways?  16......Page 38
Designing the system: we emulate the human  17......Page 39
The nondriver isn’t anymore  20......Page 42
Platooning  21......Page 43
It’s not just for moving people  22......Page 44
Brave new world!  24......Page 46
References  25......Page 47
3  Congestion: The Devil We Know  27......Page 49
Ultimate gridlock  28......Page 50
Is congestion increasing?  29......Page 51
A paradox?  31......Page 53
A short story about the suburbs  32......Page 54
What congestion is costing us  34......Page 56
Just part of the story  35......Page 57
References  37......Page 59
4  Congestion: What Are We Doing about It?  39......Page 61
The broad prescription for congestion relief  40......Page 62
Traffic control and the intelligent transportation system program  41......Page 63
Better public transportation  45......Page 67
Car pooling  48......Page 70
High-occupancy vehicle lanes  50......Page 72
Other favorites  51......Page 73
Where does all this leave us?  52......Page 74
References  53......Page 75
5  Congestion: A Better Strategy?  55......Page 77
Freeway Traffic Flow 101: The nature of the phenomenon  56......Page 78
So once again—the prescription  60......Page 82
What, then, to do?  61......Page 83
Off the freeway—surface streets  63......Page 85
The waiting line bugaboo  64......Page 86
Road pricing, the economists’ favorite  65......Page 87
Looking ahead: a summary  67......Page 89
Selected bibliography  68......Page 90
Appendix 5A: Variable driver behavior and the highway capacity curve  70......Page 92
The commuter car  73......Page 95
On a different track: the neighborhood car  76......Page 98
Imagine more  78......Page 100
Getting started  79......Page 101
Operations and impact—the commuter car  80......Page 102
Operations and impact—the neighborhood car  82......Page 104
Headwinds  83......Page 105
References  84......Page 106
Part II:  The City and Transportation  87......Page 109
7  Transportation and the Evolution of the City  89......Page 111
The birth of the modern city  92......Page 114
The quality of life  94......Page 116
Whither now?  96......Page 118
Selected bibliography  97......Page 119
8  The Modern Dilemma: What to Do?  99......Page 121
Relative roles  103......Page 125
Service in the suburbs—thin, diffuse travel patterns  105......Page 127
But once in the car  106......Page 128
What, then, to do?  107......Page 129
Innovation  110......Page 132
References  111......Page 133
9  A New Kind of Minicity  113......Page 135
References  119......Page 141
10  The Second-Story City  121......Page 143
Revitalize our downtowns?  123......Page 145
Reference  124......Page 146
11  The Variegated City  125......Page 147
Cities thrive by variegating  126......Page 148
Looking ahead at trends—folk living everywhere  127......Page 149
How we live—is everything old new again?  128......Page 150
Chauffeuring  130......Page 152
How we work  131......Page 153
The variegated city  133......Page 155
References  134......Page 156
12  Variegated Transportation for Variegated Cities  135......Page 157
Electric streetcars and the two-step dance  137......Page 159
Public–private roles in how things happen  140......Page 162
Constrained exploring  144......Page 166
References  145......Page 167
Part III: Energy and Emissions  147......Page 169
13  Energy Use and Pollutant Emissions  149......Page 171
Transportation energy consumption by mode  153......Page 175
Pollution  155......Page 177
Where are we going?  156......Page 178
What can we do about it?  157......Page 179
Everything we do involves tradeoffs  158......Page 180
Higher fuel prices?  160......Page 182
The fuel cell and the hydrogen possibility  161......Page 183
What, then, to do now?  162......Page 184
References  163......Page 185
Part IV: Between Cities: Rail and Other Ground Transportation Systems  165......Page 187
14  The Innovation that Changed the World: How Did It Happen?  167......Page 189
England in 1800—“Built out”  168......Page 190
The Stockton and Darlington Railway  169......Page 191
The recipe for discovery  172......Page 194
References  176......Page 198
15  America and the Two-Step Dance  177......Page 199
Shallow stuff  179......Page 201
The two-step dance  180......Page 202
Digging deeper  181......Page 203
United States in 2000: “Built out”  184......Page 206
References  185......Page 207
The highway and road system  187......Page 209
The air system  189......Page 211
The rail system  190......Page 212
Safety  192......Page 214
But there are problems  193......Page 215
It’s not hopeless  194......Page 216
References  196......Page 218
17  Where Would We Like to Go?  197......Page 219
Goal #1: lower the costs of small batch movements  198......Page 220
Goal #2: significantly reduce trip time for both passengers and freight  201......Page 223
Goal #3: lower costs overall  203......Page 225
References  204......Page 226
18  Serendipity  205......Page 227
Separate highways?  206......Page 228
Why not TOFC or COFC everywhere?  208......Page 230
Minitrains? Individual, self-powered cars?  211......Page 233
What does that kind of single vehicle or minitrain capability gain us?  213......Page 235
Back to our original problem—getting the trucks off the highway  215......Page 237
References  216......Page 238
19  Beyond Railroading: a New System  219......Page 241
The implications of our desires  222......Page 244
There is more to speed than just speed  225......Page 247
Networks versus closed circuits: the need for switching  226......Page 248
Guideway options  227......Page 249
Maglev  229......Page 251
Very high speed: a fly in the ointment?  230......Page 252
References  231......Page 253
20  A Superspeed Highway  233......Page 255
The old familiar problem  237......Page 259
Fixed guideway or high-speed highway?  238......Page 260
What do we propose?  239......Page 261
21  Big and Slow, but Cheap!  241......Page 263
The dance goes on  243......Page 265
Suggestions  245......Page 267
Why not more blood from those turnips?  246......Page 268
With a little help from our friends  247......Page 269
References  248......Page 270
Part V: The Air Transportation System  249......Page 271
22  To Grandmother’s House We Fly  251......Page 273
Urban terminals  255......Page 277
Terminal interiors  257......Page 279
Around the airport  258......Page 280
The airside  259......Page 281
The airport system of the future?  260......Page 282
Faster airplanes?  261......Page 283
Technology, congestion  263......Page 285
Selected bibliography  265......Page 287
References  266......Page 288
23  The Los Angeles Airport System in 2020, 2040, 2060—a Parable  267......Page 289
The tyranny of the seminal decision  268......Page 290
The view from 2000  271......Page 293
The dilemma of 2000  275......Page 297
The hub-and-spoke route structure  276......Page 298
The continuing evolution  277......Page 299
A zero-sum game?  279......Page 301
The Airport Planning Commission of 2020—and what actually happened in the prior 20 years  280......Page 302
Improving technology and the sharper sword  281......Page 303
The upshot: what actually happened  283......Page 305
The view from 2020 looking forward  286......Page 308
References  287......Page 309
Part VI: The New Millennium  289......Page 311
24  Communication and Transportation  291......Page 313
What’s going on?  292......Page 314
Synergies and impacts: looking around and looking back  294......Page 316
Globalization  296......Page 318
The downside  298......Page 320
Adolescence  300......Page 322
References  301......Page 323
25  Optimism  303......Page 325
References  308......Page 330
About the Authors  309......Page 331
Index  311......Page 333