This book presents the proceedings of three related ECMT Round Tables on the future of the car. The first concern the future of car ownership, the second concerns the cost of using a car, and the third concerns changing patterns of car usage.
A series of conference proceedings on various transportation issues from the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, now known as the International Transport Forum.
This Round Table presents a report on the working conditions of professional drivers covering such aspects as social environment and job situation, road safety and productivity and health.
International specialists at Round Table 78 compare notes on such vital telematics issues as: the strategies adopted in the sector; forms of standardization called for; productivity gains and the obstacles involved.
The book contains perspectives on the way new information technology might reorient the spatial organization of activity. The perspectives range from conceptual, high- lighting the role of research and development to case studies from Japan. Considerable debate is focused on the role of distance and the way in which new information technology might re-shape interaction and, eventually, the form and function of urban areas.