The car: what does the future hold?

Personal transport means moving people around. Within our towns and cities, over 80 per cent of people trips and 90 per cent of trip kilometres are by car. Such a high percentage, in fact, that if we were marketing soap, we could claim to have captured a whole market. So, although we might like to think of public transport as providing a universal viable alternative, the facts are that it does not. At its best, it efficiently services travel along major corridors between high density living and working areas. And even there, the major public transport modes the bus and the taxi, and a mode with potential, car pooling - are all road based modes.