Article : transport
The Future of Transport - 2030
For centuries we grew up, worked, learnt, dated, married, lived, and grew old within 25 miles of where we were born.
Then came the wheel and we moved ourselves a little further, the steam engine a little further, the automobile a lot
further, the airplane a hell of a lot further, but then came the internet and the necessity to travel out to see the world
ceased, because for the first time ever in our existence the world now comes to us anywhere anytime on any device
and we can live, see, play, work, date, learn and anything else – anywhere at any time.
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his new digital space, has opened up new
distribution models, new learning models,
new food production models, new work
models and the list goes on.
In my keynote to Intelligent Transport Systems
Australia I posited that our need for transportation
has irrevocably changed and is currently, and for
the foreseeable future, going to continue to be
challenged, reshaped and re-imagined.
The first of these influences is the internet itself, but
other change agents abound and some of them include:
Big Data which will increasingly allow us to
understand what’s happening on our roads, rails,
seas and skies and to make swift purposeful decisions
based on up to the minute data and predictive
artificial intelligence inputs, we’ve already seen
Qantas and other transport companies switch over
to technology i