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Author: Future Agenda | https://www.futureagenda.org
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The focus should extend to solutions that do more with less: irrigation efficiency, automated farming techniques and demand management in our cities. Smart infrastructure will help to improve performance.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/doing-more-with-less/
Water sources will continue to suffer from over-extraction: Mining and other activities will move into our water supply catchments. This means we will need to move water long distances in times of drought to services existing cities.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/moving-water/
Users are likely to have to pay for the real cost of infrastructure. One short-term option is the financial recycling of assets and capital. However, in the longer-term we will have to pay the true value for key resources.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/real-cost-of-water/
About 96% of the earth’s total water supply is found in oceans and there is broad agreement that extensive use of desalination will be required to meet the needs of growing world population.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/desalination-essential/
Smaller cities and towns will increasingly adopt approaches that have worked in larger cities: Multi-modal, integrated transport options will be adapted and optimised for midi cities.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/lessons-from-large-cities/
Focus should be upon developing a balanced triple-access system of transport, physical proximity and digital connectivity system that may transcend the traditional remits of government departments.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/triple-access-solutions/
The move into the motor age was, over a period of decades, transformative for society and for transport. Further transformation is all but inevitable.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/transformation-ahead/
The developed world focus will be on growth in electric and hybrid-fuel vehicles and self-driving vehicles. For countries with less advanced transport systems, manufacturers are likely to deploy established technologies.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/different-pathways/
Transport infrastructure investment creates employment and economic flows and holds the promise of enabling more movement and in turn more economic activity.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/driving-economic-growth/
Technological advances and fiscal and regulatory measures are needed to address adverse impacts of the transport system and its use.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/need-for-change/
Transport systems need to contribute to supporting and improving society rather than only serving it and risking unintended, unanticipated and unwelcome consequences.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/transport-and-society/
As privacy and data are subsumed within wider risk frameworks, greater self-regulation and more in-house data risk management will lead to deeper integration of engineering, privacy and policy.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/data-risk-management/
