Quotes on the shift to podcar networks replacing 60-80% of car-miles:
- Investment by Bill Gates in Glydways, Gates comment: “When it happens, AVs will change transportation as dramatically as the PC [personal computer] changed office work.”
- Vinod Kosla on the change via Glydways, “People tell me it won’t happen. It will be the principal mode of transit in all cities. Its cheaper than a private car. It’ll be faster than a private chauffeur-driven car. I could go through lots of reasons.”
End of affordable oil by 2030, according to a survey by the Dallas Federal Reserve of oil companies.
Links to:
- Benefits of walkable cities, JPods can remove 40% of car-trips to make cities safe to walk and bike. Walking, biking, and distributed logistics, so local stores can compete with big box stores, will remove another 40% of car-trips.
- History of Morgantown PRT and PRT as the solution to traffic and 1973 Oil Embargo.
- metrics
- Physical Internet®,
- ai assessment of the benefits by city
- ai assessement of energy waste by mode, Parasitic Energy Ratio
- Example networks and free software to model networks
- MOU and contract to create a known cost of regulation so private capital will immediately fund vialble networks.
Red Bull TV documentary on the future of transportation:
Walkability is the primary driver of jobs and wealth creation. Highways harm commerce by harming walking and biking. The 5x5Solar standard supports walkable cities (Massachusetts, Georgia, Texas, New Jersey)