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New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies
New transportation technologies can expand our world. During the last century, motorized modes increased our mobility by an order of magnitude, providing large benefits, but also imposing huge costs on individuals and communities. Faster and more expensive modes were favored over those that are more affordable, efficient, and healthy. As new transportation innovations become available, from e-scooters to autonomous cars, how do we make decisions that benefit our communities?
In New Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies , transportation expert Todd Litman examines 12 emerging transportation modes and services that are likely to significantly affect our bike- and carsharing, micro-mobilities, ridehailing and micro-transit, public transit innovations, telework, autonomous and electric vehicles, air taxis, mobility prioritization, and logistics management. These innovations allow people to scoot, ride, and fly like never before, but can also impose significant costs on users and communities. Planners need detailed information on their potential benefits and impacts to make informed choices.
Litman critically evaluates these new technologies and services and provides practical guidance for optimizing them. He systematically examines how each New Mobility is likely to affect travel activity (how and how much people travel); consumer costs and affordability; roadway infrastructure design and costs; parking demand; land use development patterns; public safety and health; energy and pollution emissions; and economic opportunity and fairness.
Public policies around New Mobilities can either help create heaven , a well-planned transportation system that uses new technologies intelligently, or hell , a poorly planned transportation system that is overwhelmed by conflicting and costly, unhealthy, and inequitable modes. His expert analysis will help planners, local policymakers, and concerned citizens to make informed choices about the New Mobility revolution.
In New Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies , transportation expert Todd Litman examines 12 emerging transportation modes and services that are likely to significantly affect our bike- and carsharing, micro-mobilities, ridehailing and micro-transit, public transit innovations, telework, autonomous and electric vehicles, air taxis, mobility prioritization, and logistics management. These innovations allow people to scoot, ride, and fly like never before, but can also impose significant costs on users and communities. Planners need detailed information on their potential benefits and impacts to make informed choices.
Litman critically evaluates these new technologies and services and provides practical guidance for optimizing them. He systematically examines how each New Mobility is likely to affect travel activity (how and how much people travel); consumer costs and affordability; roadway infrastructure design and costs; parking demand; land use development patterns; public safety and health; energy and pollution emissions; and economic opportunity and fairness.
Public policies around New Mobilities can either help create heaven , a well-planned transportation system that uses new technologies intelligently, or hell , a poorly planned transportation system that is overwhelmed by conflicting and costly, unhealthy, and inequitable modes. His expert analysis will help planners, local policymakers, and concerned citizens to make informed choices about the New Mobility revolution.
- GenresUrban Planning
208 pages, Paperback
Published June 17, 2021
About the author
Todd Litman
6 books4 followersTodd Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. His work helps expand the range of impacts and options considered in transportation decision-making, improve evaluation methods, and make specialized technical concepts accessible to a larger audience. His research is used worldwide in transport planning and policy analysis.
For more information see Todd Litman's resume: www.vtpi.org/documents/resume.pdf
For more information see Todd Litman's resume: www.vtpi.org/documents/resume.pdf
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September 7, 2021
I appreciate how new mobilities (like micro-transit and pneumatic tubes) are folded into a broad analysis of many existing modes, strategies, and solutions. It's very hard to cover this much ground on this topic in 150 pages, and it's done well here. The scope and sequence helps to bring readers into a conceptual framework for how mobility solutions can be evaluated both individually and as parts of a system. I believe this can help anyone who is trying to support smarter mobility planning decisions.
August 8, 2021
This book describes the benefits and costs of a variety of new transportation-related technologies, including electric bikes and scooters, carsharing, electric vehicles, and many more. Litman concludes that there are trade-offs between speed and cost: the fastest modes are generally the most expensive, and thus should not be encouraged by government. This work is admirably concise, and can easily be finished in a day or less.
September 6, 2021
Always been following Litman's state of the art efforts in the field of new form of mobility. Have been through his work entitled "Well Measured: Developing Indicators for Sustainable And Livable Transport Planning" followed by this book (New Mobilities) that includes a brief yet concise analysis of incorporating all new post and pre-pandemic modes of mobility and their consequent impacts on society. highly recommended.
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