Americans simply do not like to use transit
Transit is not the answer. Americans simply do not like to use it. From 1989 to 2007, U.S. transit mode
share rose a mere 0.5% from 4.6% to 4.9% (U.S. DOT) despite numerous incremental improvements.
Even if people could somehow be persuaded to use it, transit uses about the same energy per passenger
mile as cars and it is not much safer, killing fewer but injuring more per passenger mile (U.S. DOT).
The latest push towards so-called high speed rail may help inter-city travel but will do little or nothing for
intra-city travel. High speed rail stations are likely to create yet another artificial concentration of people in
both time and space.
Download the 12-page
Sustainable City Enabled by Personal Rapid Transit.pdf
or download
The Perfect City presentation from the 2010 Heathrow PRT Conference.pdf