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Transit Oriented Design should drive development of more efficient mass transit
We often search for advanced transportation solutions to energy problems
- We can make larger impacts by reducing travel need/distance by adjusting urban planning and logistics
Urban Layout
- Increase density
- Culminating in arcology concepts
- Increased density correlated with
- decreased energy use per capita
Logistics
- Stagger work schedules to reduce peak loads
- Flexibility to optimize residence / workplace pairings
- Mass transit effectiveness that rivals personally-owned vehicles in door-to-door performance
- Enabled by transit-oriented design
Notes:
Advances in transportation revolve around search for more efficient technologies
“silver bullet” solutions to high energy needs, including: hybrids, hydrogen fuel cells, nuclear power
Much simpler to reduce need for movement
On futurism: need to start with ideal reference designs to establish systems architecture, then strip away elements to reach a practical design.
More serious works on advanced space colonization than advanced earth colonization
Cities should offer incentives for staggered work schedules, tolls for telecommuters, etc. to protect their infrastructure investments.