Cost per mile
Bus Rapid Transit............. $$$
Streetcar......................... $$$$$
Light Rail Transit.............. $$$$$$$
Automobile and Bus.......... $$
Now factor in driverless cars and buses.
Driverless Autos and Bus.... $$+
Self-driving cars use the same infrastructure as automobiles, with updates to make them "smart". Autonomous driving has the ability to put more vehicles on the same piece of asphalt. This will make the car and bus that are being denigrated today, an extremely efficient mode compared to other modes of motorized transportation for inter- and intra-city transit. I assume that the autos of the future will be clean fuel cars: hybrid, electric, CNG, hydrogen, etc. which should appease the car-haters somewhat.
The Car of The Future is
Here Today!
Well, not here really, but the auto-car is rolling out in Great Britain. It is just a matter of time before the cars are made public in the U.S. Will the rail industry or other political or financial interests kill it?
Driverless car debuts on U.K. roads
money.cnn.com February 11, 2015
The U.K. Is racing to become a leader in the driverless car industry.
The UK just made itself a fantastic place to test self-driving cars
Wired.com February 12, 2015 By Alex Davies
Britain to test a self- driving car on public
sidewalks
Washington Post, February 11, 2015
By Matt McFarland
Self-driving cars hit British roads next month: Four cities host trial projects featuring driverless shuttles to smart roads
Daily Mail/Mail Online, December 4, 2014 By Sarah Griffiths
Why does government continue spending money on transportation options that work in highly dense cities but are extremely expensive in medium to small cities? Whether it is federal, state or locally funded, it is still public money. As pretty as light rail and streetcar transit is, it is still a Mercedes Benz we are buying, when a Toyota is all we can afford.
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