BIBLIO-FLASH N°25 1989. Transport

Directorate-General For Education And Culture

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Announcing diverse information sources on call at the Commission Library Signalant diverses sources d'information disponibles à la Bibliothèque de la Commission N°25 D ião.. (Brux. JECL 1/33 - Tel. 52976 *** Lux. JM BO/10 - Tel. 3341) DOCUMENT INTERNE TRANSPORT Rethinking Transportation \ Michael Renner The individual mobility, convenience, and assured role in society were hardly and status bestowed by the private pas­ questioned. Even worries about escalat­senger car hold a seemingly unbeatable ing gas prices and future fuel availability allure. In 1987, a record 126,000 cars subsided in the eighties almost as quickly as they had emerged. Car sales rolled off assembly lines each working recovered, driving is up, and affluent day, and close to 400 million vehicles customers are once more shopping for clog the world's streets today.1 high-performance cars. But the car's utility to the individual The motor vehicle industry's apparent stands in sharp contrast to the costs and success in dealing with the challenges of burdens that society must shoulder to the seventies has obscured the adverse provide an automobile-centered trans­long-term trends of automobile-cen­portation system. Since the days of tered transportation. Rising gasoline Henry Ford, societies have enacted a consumption will before long put in­steady stream of laws to protect drivers creased pressure on oil production ca­from each other and themselves, as well pacities.

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• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-EDUCATION-AND-CULTURE
• Nombre de lectures: 40
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 25 Mo

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