Transport For Humans - Are We Nearly There Yet? (Paperback)

Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in which an engineer measures success - speed, journey time, efficiency - are often not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We are not cargo. We choose how and when to travel, influenced not only by speed and time but by habit, status, comfort, variety - and many other factors that engineering equations don't capture at all. As we near the practical, physical limits of speed, capacity and punctuality, the greatest hope for a brighter future lies in adapting transport to more human wants and needs. Behavioural science has immense potential to improve the design of roads, railways, planes and pavements - as well as the ways in which we use them - but only when we embrace the messier reality of transport for humans. This is the moment. Climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and changing work-life priorities have shaken up long-held assumptions. There is a new way forward. This book maps out how to design transport for humans.

General

Imprint:	London Publishing Partnership
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Perspectives
Release date:	November 2021
Authors:	Pete Dyson • Rory Sutherland
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-913019-35-8
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Highway & traffic engineering Books > Professional & Technical > Transport technology > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > General Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Transport planning & policy > General Promotions
LSN:	1-913019-35-7
Barcode:	9781913019358

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