The Future of Transportation and Communication Visions and Perspectives from Europe, Japan, and the U.S.A.

We all know that networks are fundamental prerequisites for prosperity and production. Transportation and communication are indispensible to society, they are the elements which bind all economic systems together. Without networks and communica­ tion all social and economic life will be reduced to i...

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Other Authors: Thord, Roland (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1993, 1993
Edition:1st ed. 1993
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Foreword -- I: Visions of Future Arenas -- Infrastructure and the Transformation to the C-Society -- The Emerging New Arena of Transportation and Communication in Japan -- The Future of European Transport -- Taming the Wild Roadways: Teamwork, Communication, and Synchronization Across Space -- II: Regional Perspectives -- The Central European Perspective -- The Eastern European Perspective -- The North American Perspective -- The Japanese Perspective -- III: Network Perspectives -- Transportation Infrastructure, Productivity and Growth -- A Systems View of Infrastructure Planning -- Some Aspects on Interdependence of Countries and Regions of Improved Transport Links -- Transnational Planning Education and the Internationalization -- IV: Environment Perspectives -- The Environmental Situation in Europe -- Transportation and the Environment -- Human Aspects on Communication and the Infrastructure -- Technology for Improved Transportation and Environment 
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520 |a We all know that networks are fundamental prerequisites for prosperity and production. Transportation and communication are indispensible to society, they are the elements which bind all economic systems together. Without networks and communica­ tion all social and economic life will be reduced to isolated phenomena. Therefore, transportation can't be assessed in the same way as other services. A smoothly functioning system of communications is also a prerequistite for social and economic integration between separate geographical regions. The modernization of the infrastructure is therefore an urgent task and a precondition for carrying out the whole of Europe's ambitious political, economic and social agenda. Since the need for communication and transportation does not know any national borders, the functioning of the networks needs to be adopted to this new economic and political geography. Congestions of cities, highways, railroads, airways and tele­ communications must be tackled, if precious working, commuting and leisure time is not to be wasted and heavy burdens on the environment avoided. European traffic, is for example, expected to double within the next twenty years. In certain transport modes the growth is expected to be even faster - air passenger transport doubled in 10 years and goods transport on roads doubled in 15 years