Driving Change

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).

Economic, demographic and technological changes point to the need for our transport system to evolve substantially in future, raising questions of how best to achieve this given the legacy of costly past investments. In this book David Metz offers new insights into how the system as a whole needs to adapt, and wise advice about how to bring this about. Efficient, clean transportation is fundamental to a healthy economy and society; anybody with an interest in it ought to read Driving Change.

• IntroductionPart I Transport Legacy1. A system under stress2. Twentieth-century travelPart II Twenty-first century technologies3. Electric vehicles4. Digital navigation5. Digital platforms6. Autonomous vehicles7. Trains, planes, buses and roads8. Twenty-first century travel