Managing Transportation Systems in a Fast-Changing World

Self-driving cars, rising temperatures and sea levels, increasingly strong weather events, changing citizen preferences, and innovations in technologies that are revolutionizing purchasing behavior, social interaction, financial transactions, communications, and travel—the transportation world is changing very rapidly.

Transportation Research Circular E-C256: Managing Transportation Systems in a Fast-Changing World explores questions such as how do we make choices about long-life investments in infrastructure in an era where we are facing extreme uncertainty?

Planning for the future is becoming increasingly challenging, because we can no longer look at the past and say the past gives us a strong sense of what the future is going to be like.