TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION: AN INDUSTRIAL VIEW

This paper addresses the evolution of transportation, including the following: how technology will change what is moved, and how; how personal transportation needs may change; advances in transportation technology; where the energy will come from; and what is required to make the technology available. Whether these new technical concepts will be implemented or not will depend on technical progress, the support of the transportation community, and the U.S. economic and business environment. America is seen as now entering what may be thought of as the fourth recent technologically driven revolution--the use of computers to increase the ability to evaluate, regulate, and control processes and to reduce the need for human intervention.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Board Special Report 220, A Look Ahead: Year 2020, Proceedings of the Conference on Long-Range Trends and Requirements for the Nation's Highway and Public Transit Systems, June 22-24, 1988, Washington, D.C.
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• Authors:
  • Sobey, Albert J
• Conference:
  • Conference on Long-Range Trends and Requirements for the Nation's Highway and Public Transit Systems
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1988-6-22 to 1988-6-24
• Publication Date: 1988

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 430-461
• Monograph Title: A LOOK AHEAD: YEAR 2020
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 220
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computers; Conferences; Technology; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: Transportation 2020
• Old TRIS Terms: Transportation evolution
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00486294
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0-309-04702-1
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-040 656
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 31 1989 12:00AM