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Preface to First Edition vii
Preface to Second Edition xi
Introduction: Transport Revolutions Ahead 1
What is in this Book 1
Who Could Benefit from this Book, and How 5
Sources and Terminology 10
Chapter 1 Learning from Past Transport Revolutions 13
Overview 13
Britain's Railway Revolution of 1830 to 1850 17
The Great Wartime Pause in Motorization in the US 24
The Big Switch in Transatlantic Travel in the 1950s 33
The High-Speed Rail Revolution of 1960 to 1985 41
The Air Freight Revolution of 1980 to the Present 53
Reflections on Past Revolutions 58
Chapter 2 Transport Today 63
Introduction 63
How People Move Locally 67
How People Move Across Distances 88
How Freight Moves 96
Transport Tomorrow? 105
Chapter 3 Transport and Energy 111
Introduction 111
Oil and Its Future 112
Events of 2008: Reality Checks 121
Alternatives to Oil Products 131
Electric Vehicles 147
Generating Enough Electricity for Transport 162
Chapter 4 Transport's Adverse Impacts 169
Introduction 169
Global Environmental Impacts 171
Local and Regional Environmental Impacts 187
Adverse Societal and Economic Impacts 210
Relative Impacts of Transport Modes and Means of Traction 220
Chapter 5 The Next Transport Revolutions 223
Setting the Scene for 2025 223
Scenarios for 2025 for the US 229
Implementing Transport Redesign in the US 237
Scenarios for 2025 for China 260
Electricity Generation in the US and China 274
Moving into the Future 277
Chapter 6 Leading the Way Forward 281
The Wake-Up Call Provided by an Oil Price Shock 282
Examining Strands of the Recent Economic Unraveling 286
Global Economic Crisis 289
Transport's Position in the Vicious Cycle of Limited Oil Supply and Economic Distress 290
The Neglect of Transport in Searching for Cures for the Recession 293
Rescuing Chrysler and General Motors 295
Other US Steps Toward Creating New Mobility Options 298
Actions by the Government of China Suggest How to Break the Vicious Cycle 302
China Appears Poised between Virtuous and Vicious Cycles 306
Concluding Remarks 307
Appendix A List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 313
Notes and References 317
Index 423
About the Authors 433
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Sexy Goddess
reviewed Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil on January 24, 2013
Transport Revolutions
Sound ideas about the future of our transportation system.
Also ideas that will for the most part only be implemented in practice at the last minute.
This would be a perfect book if the world were like Transport Tycoon. It isn't and notably China has failed at meeting reasonable targets proposed at the date of publication in 2008; China has embraced an internal combustion engine, automobile-driven transport culture more than ever.
The US and other countries are not doing much better either.
Go figure.
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