PLAN104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Elon Musk, High-Speed Rail, Hyperloop
5 Dec 2017
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Week #8: transportation planning and issues (nov 2) If planners deal with land use designations and urban design correctly, transportation planning will take care of itself. Technological innovation can solve most of our transportation problems. Not a problem for farmers with rail tracks. Could be built for billion - billion. Four times faster than cali proposed train and tenth of the cost. Links cities that have high amounts of traffic between them. Hybrid between existing infrastructure and autonomous vehicles. Roadblocks with regard to urban design and social equity. Some very good thing autonomous vehicles can provide but many obstacles to their integration. Self- driving vehicles provide mobility for those who need it. Less road space and land required for public use. High speed train with regular, all day service from union station. If planning only land use, will not get transport right. How do cities evolve: transport flow of good or people.
