Roads Not Yet Travelled: Transport Futures For 2050
What will the world be like in 2050? This book explores possible future worlds through eight speculative fiction stories. Taking in automation, big data, climate catastrophe and government dysfunction, each tale looks at the world through the eyes of people whose lives have been influenced by the societies they live in and the transport systems they live with.

Asking important questions about our values and the role of transport in society, this book will encourage planners, policy makers, researchers and anyone interested in a positive future for public mobility to take the steps to ensure we get there.

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Roads Not Yet Travelled: Transport Futures For 2050
What will the world be like in 2050? This book explores possible future worlds through eight speculative fiction stories. Taking in automation, big data, climate catastrophe and government dysfunction, each tale looks at the world through the eyes of people whose lives have been influenced by the societies they live in and the transport systems they live with.

Asking important questions about our values and the role of transport in society, this book will encourage planners, policy makers, researchers and anyone interested in a positive future for public mobility to take the steps to ensure we get there.

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Roads Not Yet Travelled: Transport Futures For 2050

Roads Not Yet Travelled: Transport Futures For 2050

by Marcus Enoch
Roads Not Yet Travelled: Transport Futures For 2050

Roads Not Yet Travelled: Transport Futures For 2050

by Marcus Enoch

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Overview

What will the world be like in 2050? This book explores possible future worlds through eight speculative fiction stories. Taking in automation, big data, climate catastrophe and government dysfunction, each tale looks at the world through the eyes of people whose lives have been influenced by the societies they live in and the transport systems they live with.

Asking important questions about our values and the role of transport in society, this book will encourage planners, policy makers, researchers and anyone interested in a positive future for public mobility to take the steps to ensure we get there.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781529232189
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication date: 05/20/2025
Series: Urban Transport Futures
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marcus Enoch is Professor of Transport Strategy at Loughborough University.

Table of Contents

1. Centralization

2. Competition

3. Chaos

4. Cartel

5. Care

6. Communication

7. Catastrophe

8. Calculation

9. Roads to Somewhere

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