To quote the Yogi, “It’s Deja Vu, all over again.” Admittedly, this blog is a Carboy fan boy. And, while Dan “Carboy” Sturges is just one person to have visualized the station car, we do hope that he is pleased with the kind of coordinated, intelligent melding of technologies and solutions that would seem to be on the horizon, at least in Europe.
Did you know that Better Place, also makes a software platform for cars? Uh-oh, SEGO (Serious Eyes Glazing Over) with the Nissan vehicular telematics post, eh?
Jens Moberg, CEO of Better Place Denmark, says it can provide “a more convenient, more environmentally friendly transportation solution that allows Danes to be green from door-to-door.” Such an approach is consistent with a major goal of modern inter modal passenger transport, which is to reduce emissions and improve the health and quality of life for passengers.
Domenick Yoney reports that Better Place and Danish Railway Service DSB are cooperating on a pilot project, whereby electric cars will be available to train travelers. Similar to successful bike share programs, or early electric car sharing programs, such as Autolib started in Paris, Denmark’s largest rail service provider plans to offer an electric car sharing service at its train terminals.
The report, “Towards a new culture for urban mobility,” suggests that the European Commission “should define ‘green corridors’, as exemplary inter-modal projects and encourage the shift to intelligent and environmentally-friendly transport modes so as to reduce accidents, congestion, noise, local toxic and non-toxic pollution, CO2 emissions, landscape and energy consumption.”
Also included in the collaboration are charging facilities that will coordinate with the smart grid to supply as much renewable energy as possible for both private and shared vehicles.
Can you say “infrastructure”? Sure, I knew you could. Can you say it in Danish?
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James Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, maintains, “We are approaching the twilight of the automobile age – and the implications of this for daily life in the USA are pretty large.”