How do you make Belgians want to take the bus, vs. driving their own cars? If you’re a clever ad agency, you make a set of adorably cute cartoons promoting the concept of “safety in numbers.”
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This Is What Mass Transit Looks Like
All the innovations in transportation are good, but we still haven’t shattered the basic paradigm of carting around 4000 pounds of steel to get us to work and back. The issue, of course, is profit. Selling steel and oil makes …
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Electric Cars Go “Exponential”
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie of idyllic Buckinghamshire England (see pic if you doubt my claim) sent me this thoughtful piece on the EV adoption curve. I responded: I agree with the basic concept, i.e., that a slight drop in the …
New Style of Transportation for the 21st Century: Not Sexy, But Unique
Let me introduce this new form of transportation. I can’t claim that it’s sexy–only that it’s unique and that it will be worth the 90 seconds you spent checking it out. And I thought I had this whole subject really …
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Stanford University Hosts Conference on Driverless Cars
Here’s a post on a conference held at Stanford University recently on driverless cars. As I’ve mentioned, I don’t deny that there are benefits, e.g., fewer accidents, better productivity due to better flowing traffic, and better fuel efficiencies. But I …
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Mass Transit Isn't Perfect for All Cities, But…..
Frequent commenter Tim Kingston sent me this article on public transportation, making the point that some cities, Los Angeles in particular, are not well-suited for trains, trolleys, buses, etc. There is no doubt that this is true. But I’m suspicious …
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Quick Notes on the Future of Transportation
Today is the 117th anniversary of Henry Ford’s first successful test drive of the automobile; his four-horsepower, 500-pound frame called the “quadricycle” (pictured here) ran on pure ethanol. Electric vehicles came along shortly thereafter as well, and enjoyed impressive market …
The Changing Paradigm in Personal Transportation
Here’s an article that underscores something I firmly believe: the concept of car ownership, a paradigm of the American lifestyle in the 20th Century, is on its way out. Just as a generation decided it no longer needed a telephone that …
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What Does the Decline in Vehicle Miles Traveled Mean?
Here’s an interesting graphic that suggests a phenomenon that my colleague Jeff Siegel calls “peak car” – a definitive decline in the number of vehicle miles traveled in the U.S. Granted, there are numerous factors that come together to push a …
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Paradigm Shift in Personal Mobility
At yesterday’s conference at UCLA — The Financial Implications of Going Green — I happened to sit in front of a graduate student in corporate sustainability – I forget the exact name of her program. When I asked what she was learning, she told …
