ABSTRACT
We are devoting a separate chapter to transport productivity, because while each transport of goods or people involves both energy and material consumption, not all environmental impacts of transport relate to energy and materials. Habitat destruction (by roads), noise, mass tourism and ever-increasing access to natural resources involve more than resource considerations, and need to be considered separately. Certainly, transport-environment conflicts bear a special importance that will make any efficiency gains in transportation warmly welcomed even if they save resources. Moreover, the description of ways and means to quadruple transport productivity will yield insights about a new civilisation that we will have to develop anyhow for reasons that go beyond the efficiency revolution.
