Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?

Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in which an engineer measures success -...
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Author: Pete Dyson
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Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet? by Dyson, Pete

Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?

$80.70

Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?

$80.70
Author: Pete Dyson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 are shaking up long-held assumptions. There is a new way forward. This book maps out how to design transport for humans.

Author: Pete Dyson, Rory Sutherland
Publisher: London School of Economics and Political Scie
Published: 12/15/2021
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781913019358

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