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Tables of Contents for Tomorrow's Transportation
Chapter/Section Title
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Preface
xv
A Bit of Perspective
1
6
The window on the world for most people is their car window
5
1
And so...
5
1
References
6
1
Part I: The Car and Traffic
7
80
The Car that Can Drive Itself
9
18
But other things have changed very little
11
2
Tip of the iceberg
13
1
Hands-off freeway driving
13
1
The driver becomes a passenger
14
2
New, exclusive highways?
16
1
Continuing evolution
17
1
Designing the system: we emulate the human
17
3
The end of driving?
20
1
The nondriver isn't anymore
20
1
The automated car offers more than just automation
21
1
Platooning
21
1
It's not just for moving people
22
2
Brave new world!
24
1
References
25
2
Congestion: The Devil We Know
27
12
Ultimate gridlock
28
1
Is congestion increasing?
29
2
A paradox?
31
1
A short story about the suburbs
32
2
What congestion is costing us
34
1
Just part of the story
35
2
We can do better
37
1
References
37
2
Congestion: What Are We Doing about It?
39
16
The broad prescription for congestion relief
40
1
Traffic control and the intelligent transportation system program
41
4
Traffic management systems
41
2
On-the-roll toll collection
43
1
Driver and traveler information systems
43
1
Accident reduction
44
1
Route guidance
44
1
In summary
44
1
Better public transportation
45
3
Car pooling
48
2
Reversible lanes
50
1
High-occupancy vehicle lanes
50
1
Vehicle automation
51
1
Other favorites
51
1
Where does all this leave us?
52
1
References
53
2
Congestion: A Better Strategy?
55
18
Freeway Traffic Flow 101: The nature of the phenomenon
56
4
A freeway game
60
1
So once again---the prescription
60
1
What, then, to do?
61
2
Off the freeway---surface streets
63
1
The waiting line bugaboo
64
1
Road pricing, the economists' favorite
65
2
The synergy of metering plus pricing
67
1
Looking ahead: a summary
67
1
Selected bibliography
68
2
Variable driver behavior and the highway capacity curve
70
3
Some New Kinds of Cars
73
14
The commuter car
73
3
On a different track: the neighborhood car
76
2
Imagine more
78
1
Getting started
79
1
Operations and impact---the commuter car
80
2
Operations and impact---the neighborhood car
82
1
Headwinds
83
1
References
84
3
Part II: The City and Transportation
87
60
Transporation and the Evolution of the City
89
10
The birth of the modern city
92
2
The quality of life
94
2
Whither now?
96
1
Selected bibliography
97
2
The Modern Dilemma: What to Do?
99
14
Relative roles
103
2
Service in the suburbs---thin, diffuse travel patterns
105
1
But once in the car
106
1
Where does this leave us?
107
1
What, then, to do?
107
3
About our downtowns?
107
1
Emulate Europe?
108
1
Transit in perspective
108
1
The road system
109
1
Innovation
110
1
Next
111
1
References
111
2
A New Kind of Minicity
113
8
References
119
2
The Second-Story City
121
4
Let's push the envelope
123
1
Revitalize our downtowns?
123
1
Reference
124
1
The Variegated City
125
10
Cities thrive by variegating
126
1
Looking ahead at trends---folk living everywhere
127
1
How we live---is everything old new again?
128
2
Chauffeuring
130
1
How we work
131
2
The variegated city
133
1
References
134
1
Variegated Transportation for Variegated Cities
135
12
Electric streetcars and the two-step dance
137
3
Public---private roles in how things happen
140
4
Constrained exploring
144
1
References
145
2
Part III: Energy and Emissions
147
18
Energy Use and Pollutant Emissions
149
16
Transportation energy consumption by mode
153
2
Pollution
155
1
Where are we going?
156
1
What can we do about it?
157
1
Everything we do involves tradeoffs
158
2
Higher fuel prices?
160
1
The fuel cell and the hydrogen possibility
161
1
What, then, to do now?
162
1
References
163
2
Part IV: Between Cities: Rail and Other Ground Transportation Systems
165
84
The Innovation that Changed the World: How Did It Happen?
167
10
England in 1800---``Built out''
168
1
The Stockton and Darlington Railway
169
3
The recipe for discovery
172
4
References
176
1
America and the Two-Step Dance
177
10
Shallow stuff
179
1
The two-step dance
180
1
Digging deeper
181
3
Creative destruction and the devil we know
184
1
United States in 2000: ``Built out''
184
1
References
185
2
Where Are We Today?
187
10
The highway and road system
187
2
The air system
189
1
The rail system
190
2
Safety
192
1
About freight transportation
193
1
But there are problems
193
1
It's not hopeless
194
2
References
196
1
Where Would We Like to Go?
197
8
lower the costs of small batch movements
198
3
significantly reduce trip time for both passengers and freight
201
2
lower costs overall
203
1
Other dimensions of performance
204
1
References
204
1
Serendipity
205
14
Separate highways?
206
2
Why not TOFC or COFC everywhere?
208
3
Minitrains? Individual, self-powered cars?
211
2
What does that kind of single vehicle or minitrain capability gain us?
213
2
Back to our original problem---getting the trucks off the highway
215
1
But wait!
216
1
References
216
3
Beyond Railroading: a New System
219
14
Thinking about fixed guideway options
222
1
The implications of our desires
222
3
There is more to speed than just speed
225
1
Networks versus closed circuits: the need for switching
226
1
Guideway options
227
2
Maglev
229
1
Very high speed: a fly in the ointment?
230
1
References
231
2
A Superspeed Highway
233
8
The old familiar problem
237
1
Fixed guideway or high-speed highway?
238
1
What do we propose?
239
2
Big and slow, but Cheap!
241
8
The dance goes on
243
2
Suggestions
245
1
Why not more blood from those turnips?
246
1
With a little help from our friends
247
1
Full circle
248
1
References
248
1
Part V: The Air Transportation System
249
40
To Grandmother's House We Fly
251
16
Urban terminals
255
2
Terminal interiors
257
1
Around the airport
258
1
The airside
259
1
The airport system of the future?
260
1
Faster airplanes?
261
2
Technology, congestion
263
2
Selected bibliography
265
1
References
266
1
The Los Angeles Airport System in 2020, 2040, 2060---a Parable
267
22
The tyranny of the seminal decision
268
3
The view from 2000
271
4
The dilemma of 2000
275
1
The hub-and-spoke route structure
276
1
The continuing evolution
277
2
A zero-sum game?
279
1
The Airport Planning Commission of 2020---and what actually happened in the prior 20 years
280
1
Improving technology and the sharper sword
281
2
The up-shot: what actually happened
283
3
The view from 2020 looking forward
286
1
The view from 2040?
287
1
References
287
2
Part VI: The New Millennium
289
20
Communication and Transportation
291
12
What's going on?
292
2
It takes two to tango
294
1
Synergies and impacts: looking around and looking back
294
2
Globalization
296
2
The downside
298
2
Adolescence
300
1
References
301
2
Optimism
303
6
References
308
1
About the Authors
309
2
Index
311