What does the future of transportation hold? | Counting the Cost

It is the glue that binds economies. Transportation connects people and businesses worldwide. But, the choices we make about how to get from one place to another can have a large impact on the environment. Transportation is responsible for about 37 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The World Bank says the move to sustainable transport could save $70 trillion in mobility costs by 2050.

As governments look to the future, they’re aiming to decarbonise their economies and shift away from fossil-fueled vehicles.

Will new technologies change the way we move goods too, and what about aviation?

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[Gasanwu]

A flying car is just a big drone with a cockpit that allows people to sit in, the technology is actually very mature. It's just a matter of regulation catching up to technological progress.

[micdmj]

The last point from the man from London cannot be overemphasised...Let countries in Africa grow regardless, we need.

[raymonddon]

china is the future with EV' cars and flying taxi - well done china!

[karlInSanDiego]

No, the concept that flying cars won't suffer from congestion is very, very wrong. We have never tried to place a multitude of independently operating flying vehicles in shared spaces at the same time. In fact, the only way that flying vehicles avoid midair collisions and remain reasonable to navigate safely is that there are flight paths, separated heights for various directions and diligent air traffic control amongst the very minimal number of flying vehicles allowed in an given area at any given time. The Tech Bros telling you that VTOL is inevitable is lying about the difficult that would be encountered wrangling a large number of flying vehicles trying to share space. It's just handwaving from those who don't even understand the regulator space or respect that it exists for a reason. Don't rely on any predictions from disruptive tech developers. They are clueless.

[geraldmantel]

Didn't realize Fat Henry Kissinger was still alive ...

[geraldmantel]

Where do these hocus pokus numbers like $70 trillion, out of a lotto drawing or ????

[crevard]

Where have I missed the logic, if air travel is responsible for two percent of global C02 emictions how would improving it reduce global emissions by eighty percent?

[Zerotolerance]

Whereas in our India people still struggle with Ox carts and toilets...

[Kiwiadventurerandoverlander]

All this tech talk etc and going green…what about the energy consumption in data centres powering the cloud and enabling tech such as AI which will even push data centre growth even further and put more stress on the energy grid and the environment?

[waitawhileexplorer]

WTF is "sustainable aviation fuel" being injected into the aircraft at the beginning?

[perkomar]

Lets see if politicians want to ride those soon!

[MyVoice-bnvj]

we support with China for the Eastern World economic, kick out u.s. western hegemony, we interest support eastern world economics

[Zleets]

60 years from today people will look back at this video and they'll find it funny.

[markatingi]

code sharing and booking on one ticket. sounds great but in reality doesn't work...

[XxXenosxX]

EVTOL are not flying cars, it’s an actually useful technology.

[awolpeace]

Popular Mechanics pipedream blueprints

[MarcoSalieri-ckgc]

Oh yes yes ... The future that will never come

[richardcampbell]

Ridiculous that the “expert” highlights the cost of high speed rail when the cost of no carbon aviation likely much much more expensive if it even possible. Need more realistic unbiased people.

[sanjayjadhav]

Air taxi, air bus all hydrogen power is not only future transport but today's need, act fast in 5 year change everything.

[andrewlin]

China 🇨🇳 is now testing on nuclear fusion battery