David Metz is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Transport Studies, University College London. He was formerly Chief Scientist at the UK Department for Transport. His books include Travel Fast or Smart? A Manifesto for an Intelligent Transport Policy (2016) and Peak Car: The Future of Travel (2014).

Introduction

Part I Transport Legacy

1. A system under stress

2. Twentieth-century travel

Part II Twenty-first century technologies

3. Electric vehicles

4. Digital navigation

5. Digital platforms

6. Autonomous vehicles

7. Trains, planes, buses and roads

8. Twenty-first century travel