Transportation-1993

The Director of M.I.T.'s Project Transport takes us to the year 1993 to see what is expected to happen in the field of transportation in the next 25 years. From our vantage point in the future, we observe that the individual vehicle is still the most important mode of transport, although it is quite different from the automobile of 1968. For mass transportation there has been an attempt to upgrade conventional rail service but it has met with only moderate success, whereas the growth of the airlines has been phenomenal, as have been their problems.