[Grovenet] The city will be planning forthe futureof ourtransportation system

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Well, your suggestion may well be an apt one, Steven. It's certainly
something that could be modeled to see if its costs are acceptable. 

At least one major world corporation is betting their future on something
like that: Boeing.

Boeing and Airbus are betting their respective futures upon two different
views of air travel that are somewhat like the flexible "bus" vs. the
railroad. Boeing is betting their future of the ability of faster, smaller
long-range aircraft to handle traffic between smaller airports as opposed to
Airbus who is betting the future is in larger aircraft flying between larger
regional airports where passengers will transfer to small commuter aircraft,
trains or cars. 

It'll be interesting to see who is right. 

Ron D'Eau Claire 

 



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From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
Behalf Of Steven
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 6:31 PM
To: Forest Grove local interests list
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] The city will be planning forthe futureof
ourtransportation system


No, a car pool is as you describe. Imagine the guy with the car is now 
available for another set. While the carpool vehicle parks all day and 
night. Car pool would require multiple parties to all agree. A county 
wide system would be anyone who had an urge to go anywhere anywhen could 
join in. You want to go down to Fry's tomorrow at 10am. Schedule up. A 
vehicle will arrive at a location within 3 blocks of your house at a 
time you are told to be there. I would imagine that a dispatch system 
could be worked to do this.

Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: