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Now we could take out all the local buses that ran alongside those rapid transport means.
This map only shows the rapid transport connections, no local bus, very much in the "metro map" style that was so successful in London, and that since has been exported to so many other major cities, and therefore is the language that we should use for public transport maps.
What's also important is, with a simplified network like this, it now would become possible for me to tackle the ultimate challenge and make a public transport map for the city center, one where I wouldn't just show rapid transport connections, but also all the local bus routes, streets and the likes, and this is what a map like this could look like.
In this map, I'm including each transport mode, so rapid transport, bus, DART, tram and the likes.
So, straightened lines, cleaned-up corners, and of course, that very, very important geographic distortion that makes public transport maps possible.
So for a successful public transport map, we should not stick to accurate representation, but design them in the way our brains work.
And this picture was taken in India in our last field trial, where we had a 90-percent adoption rate where people switched to using our Leveraged Freedom Chair over their normal wheelchair, and this picture specifically is of Ashok, and Ashok had a spinal injury when he fell out of a tree, and he had been working at a tailor, but once he was injured he wasn't able to transport himself from his house over a kilometer to his shop in his normal wheelchair.
What we have to look at is at how we feed, cure, educate, transport, communicate for seven billion people in a sustainable way.
And traffic planners all around the world have tried lots of different measures: dense cities or dispersed cities, lots of roads or lots of public transport or lots of bike lanes or more information, or lots of different things, but nothing seems to work.
And then someone came up with the idea that, apart from good public transport, apart from spending money on roads, let's try to charge drivers one or two euros at these bottlenecks.
It's the most bizarre way to actually transport your food in any particular direction, and at the same time it's got to deal with the heat.
They will lay their eggs in clear water, any pool, any puddle, any birdbath, any flower pot, anywhere there's clear water, they'll lay their eggs, and if that clear water is near freight, it's near a port, if it's anywhere near transport, those eggs will then get transported around the world.
We can transport them around the world.
Thank you so much for coming to TED. (Applause) I have a friend in Portugal whose grandfather built a vehicle out of a bicycle and a washing machine so he could transport his family.
I think it's extremely important that we have sustainable transport and sustainable energy production.
So given that we have to solve sustainable electricity generation, then it makes sense for us to have electric cars as the mode of transport.
So, in order to accelerate the advent of electric transport, and I should say that I think, actually, all modes of transport will become fully electric with the ironic exception of rockets.
The question is how do you accelerate the advent of electric transport?
Every mode of transport that we use, whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses, is reusable, but not rockets.
We have a lot: an ID card, a driving license or a transport ticket, credit or debit cards, reward cards.
For example, if, in that Bucky-inspired phrase, we draw back and we look at planet Earth, and we take a kind of typical, industrialized society, then the energy consumed would be split between the buildings, 44 percent, transport, 34 percent, and industry.
If you looked at the buildings together with the associated transport, in other words, the transport of people, which is 26 percent, then 70 percent of the energy consumption is influenced by the way that our cites and infrastructure work together.
But it's not legal to transport the books from Spain to Latin America.
Well, because we can't transport books across borders, there had to be separate versions read in all the different English-speaking countries: Britain, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all had to have separate readings of Harry Potter.
It's something that a group of countries and the World Blind Union are advocating, a cross-border treaty so that if books are available under a copyright exception and the other country has a copyright exception, we can transport those books across borders and give life to people, particularly in developing countries, blind people who don't have the books to read.
And the only way to do this, because it's illegal, is to have absolute control of the geographic corridors that are used to transport drugs.
They started as just sort of a transport organization that specialized in smuggling between the U.S. and the Mexican borders, but now they have grown into a truly integrated multinational that has partnerships in production in the south and partnerships in global distribution across the planet.
They have invented drones to transport drugs, catapults, you name it.
This can transport a small payload today, about two kilograms, over a short distance, about 10 kilometers, but it's part of a wider network that may cover the entire country, maybe even the entire continent.
These are able to transport two kilograms over 10 kilometers in just about 15 minutes.
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