WORLD POPULATION AND TRANSPORT

The developing world

The world population is today 6 billion and it is projected to double until year 2050. At the same time, urbanization is increasing, which means that the cities around the world will have more than 6 billion more people compared to what they have today. Today about 3 billion live in cities, this means that the transport in the cities will increase by 200% during the period. The increase is particularly high in developing countries that also produce most of the population growth. These markets have serious financial limitations and current mass transit solutions are too expensive. The result is buses and cars, with traffic congestion, pollution and non-functioning cities at large.

The developed world

In the developed world, population growth is low, but pollution, green house effects and CO2 emissions are catching the attention in all sectors of society. Existing mass transit systems are in operation, but relatively few people are using them, due to general inconvenience.

Non-availability

Here the problem is the non-availability of competitive low capacity solutions that can collect and distribute passengers with competitive and realistic waiting times and walking distances. Since this link is largely missing in mass transit solutions, the constructed systems have low utilization, they are too expensive to build and the service frequency is too low to give the passenger satisfaction. The result is that the car still is considered the preferable means of transport, even if it is expensive to park in the city and traffic jams actually make the travel time long.