How to downsize a transport network

Fast and cheap transportation props up industrial societies, both for the moving of people and cargo. However, our transport networks are very wasteful of energy and utterly dependent on fossil fuels. In this series of articles, Low-tech Magazine critically examines the call for electrified vehicles, which depend on unsustainable batteries and infrastructures. Much more important than the chosen power source is vehicle design: size, weight, speed, acceleration, and comfort level. Furthermore, public transport is more resource efficient, and we could electrify it without batteries. The book's second part deals with long-distance transportation: planes, trains, sailing ships, and ocean liners. By placing transportation technology in a historical context, Low-tech Magazine challenges our high-tech approach to sustainability and highlights the possibilities of alternative solutions.

Contents table:

How to Downsize a Transport Network: the Chinese Wheelbarrow

The Citroën 2CV: Cleantech from the 1940s

The Status Quo of Electric Cars: Better Batteries, Same Range

Electric Velomobiles: as Fast and Comfortable as Automobiles, but 80 times more Efficient

Get Wired again: Trolleybuses and Trolleytrucks

High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network

Life Without Airplanes: from London to New York in 3 Days and 12 Hours

How to Design a Sailing Ship for the 21st Century?

This volume is also available as a paperback book.