By Jim Irwin
Wards Auto
Information technology will make getting from Point A to Point B in increasingly congested cities manageable, with or without one’s own car, experts say.
While private vehicle ownership is not particularly desirable in urban environments, it can be managed economically and integrated into shared modes of transportation, a panel of specialists in urban mobility say during a recent online roundtable.
‟It used to be (that) transportation was just about bricks and mortar, big transportation infrastructure,“ says Sue Zielinski, director of the Sustainable Mobility & Accessibility Research & Transfomation program at the University of Michigan. ‟Now you have that nimbleness that is enabled by information technology.
‟Whereas before you had a road, you had a bus, you had a bicycle, now you can combine all those things using information technology (to) get off the bus, take a ride-sharing vehicle, get off the car share, take a free bicycle, get onto the train from there, all using information apps, using pricing apps, using fair-payment apps, all coming together in something of a seamless whole.
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