Make Urban Mobility Smooth Again
Since lots of roads and lands are occupied by cars in U.S. cities, an environmental friendly, more accessible and a more collaborative urban mobility system is expected to be established in the future.
For public transit, Germany has made an innovation in preserving more ground space. In Wuppertal, an industrial city of about 350,000 residents, a suspended monorail system called Schwebebahn runs much more frequent than other German lines and even transit lines in the U.S., which transports over 65,000 passengers in average per weekday. The railway system not only becomes an efficient means of city mobility for generations, but also conveys a social and psychological influence on urban dwellers (Schneider, 2019). Besides, Yanko Design proposed the concept of similar hanging monorails with solar and wind energy as power, which can reduce dependency on electricity.
What can we imagine about our urban mobility in the future? Automatic and zero-emission vehicles? Car-less and ride-sharing city? In large-scale countries such as U.S., urban planners and scientists may need to think about how to build efficient and economic public transportation, and persuade people to try heterogeneous ways of mobility. We want to create more space for residents to communicate, and save more time and costs during our commuting.
