Transport For Humans : Are We Nearly There Yet? Paperback / softback
by Pete Dyson, Rory Sutherland
Part of the Perspectives series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 have shaken up long-held assumptions.
There is a new way forward. This book maps out how to design transport for humans.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:London Publishing Partnership
- Publication Date:18/11/2021
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- ISBN:9781913019358
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:London Publishing Partnership
- Publication Date:18/11/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781913019358