ABSTRACT
Oil depletion scenarios explored in earlier chapters of this book imply substantial declines in mobility, drastic declines in auto-mobility, increased localization and correspondingly greater roles for walking and cycling, as scoped in other chapters in this Part II. However, to encourage more people to travel using their own effort, there is much that planners, legislators and communities will need to do to repair the damage done to the public realm by automobile dependent policies. For longer journeys, urban mobility will require some form of external power. Electric cars will play a part, but for reasons of efficiency in the use of both energy and space, many more trips than today will need to be made in shared vehicles. In short, we will need good public transport.
