Transport in the fourth era of travel

We’ve reached the limits of personal travel, so how should transport systems develop in this new era of stable mobility?

Mobility has always been central to human existence. Looking back, we can identify three past eras of human mobility. Man as hunter-gatherer emerged out of Africa 60,000 years ago to explore and populate the whole of the inhabitable Earth, travelling some three or four thousand miles a year foraging for food. Next, with the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago, our ancestors settled down, which limited travel to about an hour a day on average, an average travel time that persists today. At...

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