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The global trend is to free up valuable city space by reducing parking and promoting other forms of transport that don’t clog roads and pollute the air. Australian cities are still putting cars first.
When the Beetle was first introduced, Americans had never seen anything like it. Among art car enthusiasts, it became the ideal canvas for self-expression.
Many cities have no standard method for counting the number of people who live in their cars. This means that their issues are often overlooked in policies designed to help the homeless.
Children are the future, so why don’t we listen to them more often?
Academic experts on how the humble car could evolve to become an unlikely hero in the global fight against climate change.
To become an attractive prospect for electric car manufacturers, the UK needs to sort out its supplies of rare earths – Brexit, or no Brexit.
When computers take the wheel, the emotive aspect of driving will change significantly.
Driverless cars will form a fast, efficient transport network, which will make car ownership redundant. But they could also spell the end of public transport.
Despite efforts to encourage a shift to sustainable transportation, traffic congestion is often the focus of debates over mobility. Motorists endlessly demand more roads, but is this really a solution?
The car revolutionised the way people travel – but at a heavy cost. Now, car-free cities will only work when there’s reliable public transit and access for all.
From Alexa and Siri to intelligent speed assistance, there’s a lot of technology competing for our attention while driving,
The year 2030 may not seem far away, but a decade is a long time in technological terms. Widespread automation, electrification, and connectivity are set to revolutionise the car of the future.
Chinese electric vehicle sales already amount to more than half of the world’s total – and car makers and battery manufacturers are working hard to grow even faster.
Traffic impact assessments required of major building developments mainly focus on the movement of cars, but these account for only 30-40% of trips by inner-city apartment dwellers.
Vehicles in Canada are big, heavy and guzzle a lot of gasoline.
One of Uber’s selling points is that a driver is always available to pick up a rider within minutes. But the drivers who make this possible aren’t being compensated for the time they spend waiting.
Electric motors are used in everything from utes to mining trucks – because they pack plenty of oomph.
Concerns about the strain electric cars can put on the electricity grid are not unfounded, but there are some relatively simple fixes available.
American companies still face enormous uncertainty about how they’ll be doing business in the UK and EU in the coming years, particularly as the April 12 Brexit deadline draws closer.
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies, UCL
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Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence (EVCE), Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Product Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Business and Sustainability, Cardiff University
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Senior Research Fellow in Human Factors & Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University
