208 pages
6 x 9
19 figures (including au photo)
New transportation technologies can expand our world. During the last century, motorized modes increased our mobility by an order of magnitude, providing large benefits, but also imposing huge costs on individuals and communities. Faster and more expensive modes were favored over those that are more affordable, efficient, and healthy. As new transportation innovations become available, from e-scooters to autonomous cars, how do we make decisions that benefit our communities?
In New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies, transportation expert Todd Litman examines 12 emerging transportation modes and services that are likely to significantly affect our lives: bike- and carsharing, micro-mobilities, ridehailing and micro-transit, public transit innovations, telework, autonomous and electric vehicles, air taxis, mobility prioritization, and logistics management. These innovations allow people to scoot, ride, and fly like never before, but can also impose significant costs on users and communities. Planners need detailed information on their potential benefits and impacts to make informed choices.
Litman critically evaluates these new technologies and services and provides practical guidance for optimizing them. He systematically examines how each New Mobility is likely to affect travel activity (how and how much people travel); consumer costs and affordability; roadway infrastructure design and costs; parking demand; land use development patterns; public safety and health; energy and pollution emissions; and economic opportunity and fairness.
Public policies around New Mobilities can either help create heaven, a well-planned transportation system that uses new technologies intelligently, or hell, a poorly planned transportation system that is overwhelmed by conflicting and costly, unhealthy, and inequitable modes. His expert analysis will help planners, local policymakers, and concerned citizens to make informed choices about the New Mobility revolution.
"This book is a thought-provoking review of the many New Mobility technologies coming our way today and in the future. Litman provides an incredible reference for evaluating 12 emerging transportation technologies in a concise, easy to read book. It provides an excellent framework for planners, elected officials, and citizens to evaluate these New Mobilities and their impacts on communities. As a result, I consider it a must-read for anyone interested in the future of mobility."
Journal of Urban Affairs
"Provides strategies for correcting the ills of the past and creating a future that is more multimodal and therefore healthier, and more equitable, sustainable, inclusive, and efficient."
The Dirt | ASLA
"New Mobilities is an accessible and straightforward manual for urban designers, planners and engineers considering transport systems, their users and associated effects. Its dedicated policy lens contributes a valuable decision-making framework for the transportation and streetscape discussion."
Urban Design Journal
"Todd's research on social cost-benefit analysis for transportation investments has long been essential for professionals. New Mobilities is a wonderful read for anyone wanting a framework for understanding, prioritizing, and planning for new mobility solutions, in the context of historical impacts and data."
Gabe Klein, Partner, Cityfi and author of "Start-Up City"
"This book puts the emerging new mobilities into a meaningful framework and gives a great overview of the historic arc that got us to our auto fixation today. It includes important data and analysis to understand the potential of new modes and policies and how they can improve mobility more broadly. Written during the pandemic, it includes references to disease prevention and other issues that have arisen more recently. It also includes references to many of the key studies and findings from the leaders of the field today. It’s a terrific addition to the field."
Sharon Feigon, Founder and Former CEO, Shared-Use Mobility Center
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Arc of Transportation History
Chapter 3: The Context of Transportation Planning
Chapter 4: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework
Chapter 5: Evaluating the New Mobilities
Chapter 6: Analysis: How New Mobilities Can Achieve Community Goals
Chapter 7: Recommendations for Optimizing New Mobilities
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author
New transportation technologies are coming online faster than ever. While many of these emerging technologies are helping to expand our world, they need to be evaluated critically.
Join the Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network at 1 p.m., Thursday, June 24, as Todd Litman discusses 12 emerging transportation modes and services that are likely to significantly affect our lives as they become more commonplace. Litman will examine how these modes and services, including bike and car sharing, micro-transit and electric vehicles, may affect travel activity, costs and affordability, infrastructure design and cost, and other elements. His new book is New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation.
Participants of the live webinar are eligible for 1.5 AICP CM credits.
New transportation technologies can expand our world by an order of magnitude, but the significant benefits they provide are often counterbalanced by the huge costs that they impose on individuals and communities. The rapid expansion of motorization over the last century created modes — and the urban infrastructure that accommodates them — that favor speed over affordability, efficiency and personal and community well-being. As new transportation innovations become more widely available, from e-scooters to autonomous cars, how do we learn from the past to make decisions that benefit ourselves and our communities? The new book by Todd Litman, New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies, critically evaluates 12 developing transportation modes and services that are likely to significantly affect our lives, and provides practical guidance for optimizing them. As we accelerate towards a new mobility revolution, come learn how to make informed decisions about advocating and planning for these innovative ways to move.
New transportation technologies are coming online faster than ever. While many of these emerging technologies are helping to expand our world, they need to be evaluated critically. Todd Litman, author of the new book New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies, will discuss 12 emerging transportation modes and services that will likely significantly affect our lives as they become more commonplace. Litman will explain how these modes and services, including bike and car sharing, micro-transit and electric vehicles, may affect travel activity, costs and affordability, infrastructure design and cost, and other elements.
Speakers:
2021 National Shared Mobility Summit by Shared-Use Mobility Center is happening July 6 - 27, 2021. This year's theme is "The Big Shift: Building the Infrastructures for Shared Mobility".
Each week focuses on different areas of US national infrastructure:
On July 8th, the Summit will feature a book talk from Todd Litman on his book, New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies. If you have followed emerging transportation trends, you have likely drawn on Litman, the founder and executive director of Victoria Transport Policy Institute's, research. This will be the first-ever Summit book club event.
Summit Rates:
Did you get to work on an e-bike? Go to meet your friends at the restaurant on a scooter? Go to your vacation get-away on an air taxi? There are more and more ways to get from point A to point B. But what impact do all these new technologies have? What are the benefits and the costs?
Transportation expert Todd Litman tries to answer these questions in New Mobilities. Litman examines 12 emerging transportation modes and services that are likely to affect our lives: bike- and car-sharing, micro-mobilities, ridehailing and micro-transit, public transit innovations, telework, autonomous and electric vehicles, air taxis, mobility prioritization, and logistics management. What should city planners be aware of before building these out and developing infrastructures for them? With new technologies comes, undoubtedly, new problems. But, Litman notes, so comes new benefits, as well, that can make all our lives better.
Todd Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transportation Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems.
Presented by Town Hall Seattle.
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