Accounting for Urban Decentralization

Urban areas are expected to continue growing in population, but or that population to disperse themselves radically into the surrounding countryside. Fast cheap and clean transportation, telebusiness, and energy decentralization will allow this to become the best way for cities to develop.

Transportation and urban environments are closely tied. Building greenspace in urban zones will decrease the pollution caused by conventional driving and make cities more pleasant to look at. More lightly constructed urban environments will proivide more pleasant neighborhoods and less crowded spaces with more opportunity for healthy lifestyles and economic activity. Ideally transportation will increase in speed and efficiency to make getting around these broader, less dense cities also less time consuming, bringing people closer together faster without the need to pile them on top of one another and edge out the environment.

Decentralized warehouse space will replace conventional direct outlet trucking. Maglev trains will also reduce the average trucking distance. Internet commerce will reduce the number of commutes a citizen must make in a day and provide more secure and convenient commerce, without the business expense of a store. This method can also be used to reduce commercial real estate and replace some commercial zones with residential spaces or greenspace.

Transportation will take a different role in life in the coming years. It will no longer be necessary to have a vehicle to get to many jobs or to do business with most enterprises. Society will enable more transportation efficiency through changes in commerce and shipping and increase in social and business transportation support.

Fuel oils will become less important as energy decentralizes and vehicles shift away from reliance on oil. Production of goods and business and economic growth will become less reliant per unit of work on fuel and electricity, to the benefit of business and society. International fuel arrangements will shift and decrease as technology changes to allow regional areas to become more able to produce their own energy and fuel sources. This will aid in the construction of go-anywhere public transit and business transit, and non/low-transportation business and shipping systems.

We at the Transit Authority will never be out of a job, as people will always travel and rely on assistance to do it, but our jobs may become much easier, and yours too! Amen.

New Transit Recommendations

The ways we currently travel are inefficient. This is concerning because of shortage of resources and very high cost of living, and in the interest of connecting the world by ease of traveling and transporting aid in a timely manner.

Local commutes should be performed in non-petroleum vehicles. The renewable fuel and pollution rate of mpg for petroleum-fuelled vehicles is in the hundreds of mpg. Large fleets of vehicles receiving mpg's in the teens or twenties will not be sustainable economically nor environmentally and should not be used. To perform commutes people should use biodiesel, ethanol, or electric and assisted vehicles. Or electric busses, or use electric or electromagnetic trains. For longer trips people should avoid personal vehicles and instead rely on high speed trains or hydrogen scramjet flights.

These methods are the most cost effective, rapid, and environmentally sustainable forms of transportation, and due to decreasing resources, increasing populations, and measurably worsening environment, we must put greater and greater emphasis on these methods, in advance of economic indicators and apparent necessity.

In the meantime, all automotive and transit companies should work hard to increase mpg and switch their toolsets and companies to produce these new forms of vehicles.

It is recommended that all large engined vehicles including V6's, ethanol, and biodiesel engines, adopt settings to inactivate pairs of pistons based on vehicle need to conserve fuel. The industry standard vehicle weight should also decrease by about 300kg annually until passenger cars reach a weight of around one ton and other non-commercial vehicles weigh in under 1500kg.

US Transit Authority Mission

Numerous methods to travel from one place to another exist. You could walk, bicycle, skateboard, drive, fly, dig, dance, plant, or create your own method of moving. Because many people choose to bicycle, drive, ride, or fly between places, we have organized and provided efficient methods of doing so. Newer and better methods of transportation and new energy sources will improve the efficiency, speed, safety, and comfort of travel.

Vision: The Space Elevator and scramjet technology will revolutionize air travel in the next 20 years, providing ultraquick cheap and safe air travel from one point to another. Maglev trains will make local and regional travel quick and cheap as well, replacing a considerable portion of distance-driving activities such as freighters and resource-heavy cross-country driving. Fuel cell busses and other power-friendly local mass transit will greatly expand the incidence and use of mass transit, reducing highway traffic and expense of transportation and increasing the range of urban environments. Better vehicles of all kinds will pollute less or not at all and provide cheaper safer commutes and personal travel.

Our goal is to revolutionize travel over the next 20 years, and especially over the next 5 years, to save the planet and society.