Done right, a big infrastructure spree would boost demand and make travel more efficient.
Amtrak is dedicated to making train travel more efficient, more convenient and vastly more enjoyable for our riders.
It has worked, so far at least, because it also makes trade and travel more efficient among the common currency's members and makes the euro bloc a more formidable economic rival to the United States.
Stern foresees economies in which people travel using efficient self-driving cars, bicycles and walking, homes and businesses are powered by green energy, materials are widely recycled and ultrafast broadband supports home working.
Linda Fish, area manager for the Rand McNally Map and Travel Store in Chicago, says the growing popularity of G.P.S. receivers and electronic compasses that she sells may make road travel more efficient, but might also rob it of some of the fun.
But what if technology could make the whole business of air travel more efficient and even pleasurable?
Localization will drive demand for new types of light vehicles that make local travel convenient, efficient, and fun, and put pressure on cities still struggling to integrate them into infrastructures once optimized for cars.
The initial Zipdash idea was sparked by the possibility of using the wireless Internet to make travel more efficient in terms of time and energy, said Crady, who is the nephew of Andrew Grove Andrew Grove, Intel 's chairman and co-founder.
While Lyft stands to benefit from a higher volume of rides from employees of companies that participate, the product also aligns with the company's broader mission of making car travel more efficient and increasing the number of passengers per ride.
They concluded that expanding it in the Soviet Union would not only make travel more efficient and faster, it would also help build and develop the mostly farmland, enormously spread out nation that it was.
