FUTURAMA!

On Going; Mobilizing America’s Transportation Revolution

"America’s future as a global leader depends on new, advanced transportation solutions capable of handling the realities of global economics, serious environmental issues, energy and resource scarcity, changing public values and national security.

"…[Futurama 2.0: Mobilizing America’s Transportation Revolution; Assembling a visionary team to create innovative, sustainable and viable solutions for all future transportation in the United States, by David Muyres and Geoff Wardle, offers solutions that] should be considered and developed as a totally integrated systems network rather than a patchwork of separate systems."

The future of personal transport is coming fast. Wardle and Muyres say it's time to plan smart for it. (click to enlarge)

"The timing is now perfect for America’s forward-thinking political leadership to appoint a truly independent, multi-disciplinary, design-based team to create a compelling vision for this country’s long-term transportation needs…[A vision] that addresses energy, water, ecology and transportation from a holistic systems perspective…[and defines] a blueprint for the next 50 years…[on which] smart and reliable government policy can be created with clarity and confidence…

"The original 1939 Futurama vision exhibited at the New York World’s Fair and the subsequent Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 radically transformed American society and its economy. The resulting national highway system allowed the country to flourish for decades. Today, however, transportation as we know it…is in serious trouble…[A] Futurama 2.0 vision is needed for the next 50 years and beyond."

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"To create such a vision and help turn it into reality requires an extraordinary, multi-disciplinary core team…[using] the design discipline…[and] embracing the input and expertise of many disciplines…[to create] a future transportation blueprint derived from the Futurama 2.0 vision…

"The four major motivations…[are] (1) the highest ecological standards, (2) long-term American prosperity, (3) social equity, and (4) national security…Futurama 2.0 offers the [current bold White House] administration a way to generate optimism and solutions based on a fully researched and validated vision that the American people can trust and enthusiastically support…Extraordinary nations require extraordinary solutions—and extraordinary solutions require an extraordinary team."