Book Details

Three Revolutions : Steering Automated, Shared, and Electric Vehicles to a Better Future

By DANIEL SPERLING (Author)

Price : ~~$31.00~~  $24.80
ISBN : 9781610919050
Page : 256
Year of Publication : 2018    Edition : 1
Publisher : ISLAND PRESS
Subject : ENGINEERING

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Description :

Three Revolutions is essential reading for anyone interested in how technology and mobility will shape our communities and our lives.This extremely timely book help to inform the various decisions we need to make as these new technologies emerge. In Sacramento,we are implementing some of the innovative ideas in this book in an effort to lighten our environmental footprint and become a technology leader. Our cities need to define their own destiny as new opportunities emerge. This book shows us how.

Dr. Daniel Sperling is the Blue Planet Prize Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy and founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS–Davis) at the University of California, Davis. He has held the transportation seat on the California Air Resources Board

Content :

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Will the Transportation Revolutions Improve Our Lives—or Make Them Worse?

Chapter 2. Electric Vehicles: Approaching the Tipping Point

Chapter 3. Shared Mobility: The Potential of Ride Hailing and Pooling

Chapter 4. Vehicle Automation: Our Best Shot at a Transportation Do-Over?

Chapter 5. Upgrading Transit for the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 6. Bridging the Gap Between Mobility Haves and Have-Nots

Chapter 7. Remaking the Auto Industry

Chapter 8. The Dark Horse: Will China Win the Electric, Automated, Shared Mobility Race?

Epilogue: Pooling Is the Answer

Notes