Smart thinking: It’s time we got it all together for a better result

The latest technology can help manage journey flows far better, and give people improved travel options. The beneficiaries will include transport operators and the government says Peter Tomlinson

Here’s a scenario: you are a commuter into a metropolitan area and out again. You travel to work in the morning, have to be at your office by 9 am, leave at 5, travel back home. You make the trip every  Monday to Friday in a normal week, for around 220 days in the year. Seems unremarkable, I know, but the demise of this kind of activity has been predicted quite often – for reasons ranging from the decline of cities as a focus of our economic life, to the rise of tele-working....

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