Archinect - News 2024-12-22T07:26:34-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/81154894/first-smart-cars-next-smart-transport-grids First, smart cars. Next, smart transport grids Alexander Walter 2013-09-05T20:07:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3a/3a12239443c31a1929efeb1872a4133e?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Given current growth trends, the world's population is expected to reach 9 billion people by midcentury. That also means a quadrupling in the number of cars to 4 billion by 2050 -- and that, said Ford, is a recipe for global gridlock that he argues will become "a human rights issue, not just an inconvenience." For Ford [...] the only answer is to create a future where pedestrians, bicycles, and cars become part of a connected network.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>