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Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?

Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?

Dyson, Pete
Sutherland, Rory

Paperback

Business GeneralInvesting & FinanceTransportation General

Publisher Price: $22.50

ISBN10: 1913019357
ISBN13: 9781913019358
Publisher: London Publishing
Published: Dec 15 2021
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in which an engineer measures success - speed, journey time, efficiency - are often not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We are not cargo. We choose how and when to travel, influenced not only by speed and time but by habit, status, comfort, variety - and many other factors that engineering equations don't capture at all.

As we near the practical, physical limits of speed, capacity and punctuality, the greatest hope for a brighter future lies in adapting transport to more human wants and needs. Behavioural science has immense potential to improve the design of roads, railways, planes and pavements - as well as the ways in which we use them - but only when we embrace the messier reality of transport for humans.

This is the moment. Climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and changing work-life priorities are shaking up long-held assumptions. There is a new way forward. This book maps out how to design transport for humans.

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