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What Future for the Car?

During the seventies, increasing concern for the ability of our planet to sustain the growth in human population without a fall in the standard of living, let alone to avoid scourges of famine, pestilence of war, has led to questioning about the manner in which we are using up our non-renewable resources. Foremost among these concerns is the transport sector, which currently uses around 15% of the resources in the most developed countries, and is substantial consumer of one of the most precious resources, oil. While these most develop countries have mostly slackened in their growth of car ownership, we are seeing a number of less developed countries entering the phase of rapid growth as their economies take off in turn. The competition for oil will thus intensify, together with other resources used in cars, and a number of developments are thus likely to occur as a result. This paper is an attempt to explore some of these potential developments, and to suggest ways in which government policy may help or hinder the process of change.

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  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Print
  • Edition: Volume I and Volume II
  • Features: References;
  • Pagination: pp 1239-1246
  • Monograph Title: Research for Transport Policies in a Changing World: Proceedings of the World Conference on Transport Research

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01079488
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Oct 22 2007 10:14AM