New approaches for increased mobility
The Goal of Sustainable Development in Transportation
A car is nice, but without somebody producing fuel the motor will have nothing to run on, without mass production is will be too expensive for most people to own it, without a good road it will not be able to drive fast and safely.
A car is nice, but with petrol burned in the motor toxic materials are released into the atmosphere, with mass production and mass ownership the traffic jams are getting bigger and bigger, with highways everywhere the space for agriculture production and peaceful recreational areas becomes scarce and the high speed can make accidents fatal.
sustainable development in transportation means finding new ways of organising the movement of people and goods to make sure that the environment is not polluted, the modes of transportation are adapted to the life in big cities, densily and not densily populated areas respectively, helping economic development and not hindering it. For the society the risks of accidents has to be made as small as possible.
Fortunately, a lot of new scientific and technological methods are available already to reach the goal of sustainable development in transportation.
Today many cars are already fitted with extra clean diesel and gasoline engines combined with highly performing cleaning systems. Car companies like the PSA group are also working on developing and perfectioning new motors using natural gas, compressed liquid petroleum gas, electricity and bio-fuels to get less polluting cars on to the streets.
Advanced production methods, electronics components making the car "intelligent" and new materials for car parts provide higher safety and comfort. Complementing road transport, efficient high-speed trains transport large numbers of people over medium distances, safer and less fuel-consuming planes are used for long distances and international travel.
There are also ways of reducing the necessary transportation in the first place by clever city-planning measures and comfortable mass transportation like metros reducing the need for private car usage inside cities.
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