The e-lecture today was about urban transportation, focusing on Europe, Asia and North America.
It's hard to imagine how things will develop, since car transportation already makes up a huge majority of passenger kilometres travelled, and it looks like it will just keep increasing.
Surprising to see that the CO2 emissions of Viet-Nam, the Phillipines, Thailand, and Indonesia are projected to grow more than in India and China in the next 25 years. Also surprised to hear that Tokyo Transit has no subsidy from government(?).
It was nice to hear that Dr. Rahaman had a very positive opinion about Helsinki's public transportation system. He thought that the bus system was especially good. Regarding rail networks, he thought that Germany and Tokyo/Japan had some of the best systems.
I was interested in what Dr. Rahaman thought about how Toronto's public transportation could be improved, since I lived there for some time earlier. He said that people's habits are a big factor, since they often prefer a "door-to-door" trip and like to use their cars. He mentioned how most of the highways are free and there's no congestion charge to drive downtown, so those could be reasons why using the car seems so easy.
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