💭 At a Crossroads

The U.S. is undergoing rapid changes in technology, values, culture, and demographics, all of which are causing a transformation in transportation. The historic transportation infrastructure challenges—transportation funding shortfalls and a backlog of needs for aging infrastructure—are compounded with new challenges. Significant resources and attention are being directed to ensuring equity in access and impacts, intentions to reduce carbon emissions, increasing resilience to weather events, and ramping up attention to the perennial problem of unacceptable levels of transportation safety. Simultaneously, the transportation field is adapting to emerging technologies, including electrification, automation, and application of artificial intelligence. Technology has enabled significant changes in transportation, such as rapid increases in work-from-home participation, e-commerce utilization, and technology-enabled services and business models ...

manhattan.institute     Nov 07, 2024