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For this week, you are to read Chapter 7: Mitigation Strategies: Transportation. The book focuses on technology for efficient vehicles and fuels. It neglects mass transit. I have included some links below to help feed your imagination. I want you to discuss the future of transportation in America. What do we need? What do we want? Be realistic, but also positive. Focus on what we can do, not what we cant or wont do fuel – electric via renewable/biofuels/efficiency/hydrogen mass transit – personal rapid transit/buses & trains/carpool, etc

 Links for your imagination:

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/extreme-engineering-season-1-shorts-maglev-train.html

psipunk.com

http://alttransport.com/2010/07/the-five-best-ted-talks-about-alternative-transportation/6/

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xapr5r_transportation-is-broken_tech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvgZ4EvfLOQ

For your response – stay positive, constructive criticism based on feasibility, but stay positive and solution oriented, so that all criticism has a solution. It is not helpful to say people just wont do it - it is helpful to say that in order for the solution to work, we also need to account for ...... by doing ......