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walking and cycling, fewer parked cars crowding city streets. A more sustainable transport system also benefits the government in various ways – for example, by keeping health-care spending stable. It
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requires not only the necessary infrastructure (i.e. charging points and high-capacity power lines). It also requires electricity service plans that incentivise practices of benefit to the power system. Digital
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schools). For instance, smartphone apps can be used to expand on-demand shuttle services. Such apps can also be used to book future fleets of driverless vehicles. Bookable anytime and anywhere, these vehicles
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Walking and cycling are important forms of climate-friendly transport. Yet they also contribute to quality of life in urban areas. They are affordable, they promote health, they are accessible to almost [...] Indeed, whenever safe and reliable bike paths are in place, people use them. Proper infrastructure can also pave the way for the introduction of electric cargo bikes as alternatives to vans for commercial
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are all spurring new approaches to mobility. Such advances are making transport more efficient while also supporting conventional forms of public transport, making multimodal travel easier and more dependable [...] playing an ever-greater role in its decarbonisation. But the opportunities afforded by new mobility may also bring unintended consequences. Consider vehicle automation. Will it create a more sustainable transport [...] operation and traffic flow more efficient. Yet in the absence of appropriate regulation they could also encourage behaviour that produces more traffic. As this example makes plain, active guidance will
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infrastructure of the future will consist of more than concrete and steel alone. New elements will also include charging points, stations for alternative fuels and nationwide high-speed broadband. The federal
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benchmark for clean-energy efficiency in the transport sector. Other technologies, such as fuel cells, also have potential. Even internal combustion engines can be carbon neutral if run on synthetic fuel produced