Visions and Perspectives from Europe, Japan, and the U.S.A.
edited by Roland Thord.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1993
(viii, 265 pages 44 illustrations)
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.
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. 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.