Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 4: Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies (2014) / Chapter Skim
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148 Today, the policy, governance, funding flow, and decisionmaking challenges of TBL sustainability are daunting. Some thought leaders in the transportation sector are uncomfortable with the implications of managing transportation within a sustainable society policy system.
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Addressing TBL Sustainability -- Now and in the Not-Too-Distant Future 149 and biological and environmental research now regularly deal with petabytes to exabytes of data. The world's technological per-capita capacity to store information has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980s such that now 2.5 quintillion (2.5 × 1018)
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150 Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies other environmental data sets. The sensor nodes can be fixed or mobile and range in scale appropriate to the environment being sensed.
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Addressing TBL Sustainability -- Now and in the Not-Too-Distant Future 151 Robinson' machine that cracked the Lorenz cipher, to the CBS vacuum tube computer that predicted the election of Eisenhower, to the transistor-based machines used in the first space launches, to the integratedcircuit-based personal computer" (Kurzweil, 2001b)
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152 Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies • Test assumptions, proposed policies, and alternative program models: Advanced analytics allows the creation of virtual worlds where assumptions concerning an analysis can be tested and the limitations and weaknesses of current models can be understood. In addition, it provides a sandbox where analysts can test proposed policies and/or alternative program models and assess impacts.
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Addressing TBL Sustainability -- Now and in the Not-Too-Distant Future 153 real time to optimize and improve TBL sustainability to the maximum practical extent, should the policy system call for that goal.
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