Modern Societies Rely Upon prodigious amounts of oil for transport activity. The impacts over the next decade of increasing oil scarcity and higher prices on transport could be among the major challenges facing humanity and could require revolutions in how we move people and goods.
Transport Revolutions looks at the state of transport today, and analyses five prior episodes of rapid and radical change in the way people and goods travel. The authors then show how ample movement of people and freight could be sustained beyond 2025 with much-reduced dependence on oil, focusing on the United States and China. Preparations for the end of cheap oil include:
Substantial use of electricity for land transport
Use of wind to power water transport
Radical changes in aviation.
Written for transport professionals, those with a business interest in transport, planners and policy-makers, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in how transport will evolve in the years ahead.