If Telecommunication is Such a Good Substitute for Travel

Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have devised means of communicating at a distance, and saving travel has been at least an implicit motivation for the creation of telecommunication technologies from the beginning. In recent years then, as information and communication technology (ICT) has gotten cheaper, easier to use, more effective, and more widely available, and as its use, therefore, has soared -- surely its impact on congestion must be quite powerful by now? It does not seem so: travel by any measure continues to increase, and metropolitan congestion in particular shows little sign of abating. This talk explores a number of reasons for this counterintuitive result, and discusses the policy implications.

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[ruinsoffear]

thanks..it was an intersting topic

ICT means Information and Communications Technology

[christoc99]

i got it now : )

[christoc99]

what's ICT? Im from Peru....South America