Abstract
At the beginning of the era, about 2000 years ago, the average distance a person travelled in his total life was about 15,000 km, which is 500 km per year (Chatwin, 1988). During the period of industrialisation traffic volume was substituted by other modes of transport (inland waterways, rail) and rose to a world average of 1800 km in 1960. This traffic volume more than doubled to some 4200 passengerkm per year in 1990, with an increasing contribution from air transport (Schafer, 1995).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1999 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Geerlings, H. (1999). Exploring trends and ’weak signals’. In: Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Mobility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60089-0_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60089-0_6
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-64251-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-60089-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive