Faster, Smarter, Greener: The Future of the Car and Urban Mobility (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (846 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262036665 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Venkat Sumantran is Chairman of Celeris Technologies, with more than thirty years of experience heading organizations in the auto industry in the United States, Europe, and Asia.Charles Fine is Chrysler LGO Professor at MIT Sloan and the Founding President of the Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur.David Gonsalvez is CEO and Rector at MIT's Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation.
. About the Author Venkat Sumantran is Chairman of Celeris Technologies, with more than thirty years of experience heading organizations in the auto industry in the United States, Europe, and Asia.Charles Fine is Chrysler LGO Professor at MIT Sloan and the Founding President of the Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur.David Gonsalvez is CEO and Rector at MIT's Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation
Nations and cities will increasingly employ targeted user fees and offer subsidies to nudge consumers toward more sustainable modes. The twentieth century was the century of the automobile; the twenty-first will see mobility dramatically re-envisioned. Cars are not always the quickest mode of travel in cities; and emissions from the rapidly growing number of cars threaten the planet. The sharing economy is coaxing many consumers to shift from being owners of assets to being users of services . We had a century-long love affair with the car. Automobiles altered cityscapes, boosted economies, and made personal mobility efficient and convenient for many. This book, by three experts from industry and academia, envisions a new world of mobility that is connected, heterogeneous, i ntelligent, and personalized (the CHIP architecture). An innovative mobility architecture reconfigured for this century is a social and economic necessity; this book charts a course for achieving it.. The CHIP architecture embodies an integrated, mult