Transportation issues are nothing new. If you think of just the modes of transportation throughout history, this going from um you know, horse and buggy to rail to ocean going betsel, steam liners, air ships. So theres always been something new to try out that would solve some of the problems of the old and each one of those newest thing says introduced into a new problems today is transportation mix is no exception. The biggest problem is that roughly a quarter of Global Energy related Carbon Emissions are linked to transport. But thats just one of many. Many people have the experience of being stuck in traffic, and of course people dont like that. And theres also the high cost of kind of owning a vehicle if you have to do that in order to get around. And unfortunately, you know, in many places, Transit Services are not always the most accessible. The most efficient, even the most affordable traffic jams are so universally hated that theres a bunch of jokes and moves, Little Wonder that tech trains jumped onto the transit bandwagon. Big tech has reshape the economy and flashy hype field presentation no matter what their substance were. Key and so instead of kind of really mundane things like invest in bosses and, you know, think about how we distribute st space and maybe make some cycle lanes. It sounds a lot more attractive. The say all the cars are going to start driving themselves and were going to make this new tunnel system for transportation and were going to have flying cars. Finally, investors and media, laptop, high tech, exciting, new transit projects. And the company you saw potential to people spend loads on transit in the us. For instance, 16 percent of Household Spending goes to transportation, 2nd only to housing. And while investors currently only have promises not results to go on, it hasnt stopped them. For example, you on most of the Boring Company name, not because they bore tunnels, get it, picked up 675000000. 00 in private capital. In 2022. Local governments have also jumped on board mosque announced deals, promising to build underground tunnels for high speed travel in chicago and Fort Lauderdale in 2018 in 2021. Neither have been built so the high train is rolling, the Venture Capital is blowing. Everything is fine and dandy to a Tech Companies have to deliver on their spectacular promises. One of the most glaring examples of hyperlinks, a high speed above ground vacuum to popularized by musk in 2013 and pursued by a number of firms billionaire richard branson. The owner of virgin also got it on the fund. In 2017 and virgin hyper loop announced plans to build over ground vacuum tubes that would hurdle people at 670 miles an hour across the us, india in the middle east. But the closest these came to materializing was a single crude test in 2020, which reached about 100 miles an hour. Far less than promised. Costs were nearly 10. 00 times higher, and the test drive transported just to passengers instead of the promise 28. 00. And deterred by the failure of his aboveground travel project must object to go under ground. With this boring come. First, the pledge to dig elaborate systems of tunnels under cities where autonomously dripping pods with 16 passengers would sit around with ease. That became a pledge to develop a system of so called skates, which would sweep electric cars across town at speeds of up to 130 miles an hour, which became a one way tunnel. The drug test was through at about 40 miles an hour called the loop, which at least exists. He sold the systems to a bunch of cities around the united states. And in most cases they have not materialized. And then the only place where it, where it has, which is las vegas, its a short tunnel that connects up the convention center. And its mainly just in a, in attraction for teslas, you know, its a way to sell teslas. Its not really affecting traffic, its not really solving transportation problems. Its really, i call it a disney land ride for tesla fed. Western billing errors arent the only ones with tech. That sounds more impressive than it looks. China is autonomous, real rapid transit. Thats gotten heights for being a cheaper alternative to standard trends and it has been tested and could tar and australia. Its a quote unquote track with the Transit System that traverses roads and has a driver despite being called autonomy. Thats right. Pretty much a bus looks kind of cool, but not a transit revolution. If it feels like were seeing a pattern here, its because lots of these could be defined as could just bonds. The transit term for an Exciting New Technology thats actually less useful than what its meant to replace. And then there is the holy grail of sy fy flying cars. Some Companies Like jo be, are working on what they Call Electric vertical takeoff and landing cubicles. Were flying taxes. Even the biggest luddites have to admit that these are cool, though they look more like fancy helicopters and flying cars. Toby hopes to launch these fully electric vehicles in 2025. They should have a range of 150 miles per job expects the average trip to be around 25. 00, meaning flying taxis with compliments, not replace existing transport networks if and when these Tech Solutions materialize, they often bring with them their own set of regulatory costs and safety challenges or failed to solve some of the biggest transit issues. Ideally, mass transit should serve the masses. That means recognizing it as a public good. Something flashy private innovation distracts from. If we wanted to do it, we could have been making investments in Transit Service and investments in psych, plenty of the structure and doing, you know, other things in order to address these issues. Instead of waiting for the Tech Industry to create solutions that were never actually going to solve anything in the 1st place, practical Transit Solutions that encourage people to ditch private cars are often a bit boring. While the electric buses popping up all over the world are cool, there know, flying cars and transit researchers might be the only people on the planet to think a bikes, or sex. I have one right here in the background. Thats how i get the toward the theyre pretty under stated, theyre easy to maintain low cost. They enable quicker and longer buy trips without the cost of showing up. So i retired sykes and busses are great local Transit Solutions. But what makes them really shine is dedicated lanes like bogota as bus expressway is for amsterdam. So expensive network of bike paths. And theres always room for innovation, like emitting where cable cars help traverse densely built steep terrain. So it will take much more than flashing animations to solve our traffic problem. Let alone curb the transit time it impact the billions and Venture Capital in cheap super tension. These Tech Solutions garner would probably be better invested in truly boring, but more efficient, real solutions. The, the, all 3 and capital vienna is creating a completely new district. The shot spun is being constructed on a former air field on the outskirts of town. 27000 people are to live here. One day. Its a testing ground for Sustainable Housing and living. The subway was built long before the 1st house was erected. It only takes 15 minutes to get from the center of the capital to viennas newest district. Its meant to be car free, so bikes can be rented everywhere, free of charge. And 7, very important aspects was the connection to public transport, right. From the beginning, the 1st step was excavating the late, and then the subway was built. The idea was that people knew from the stop, they could travel here using public transport instead of it 1st taking that call and then having to rely on that behavior and get used to taking the subway through the the construction of the dish that acetone is being supported by several research teams, magdalena, group, lima and slowly and cooling out are investigating in a mobile lab how the residents as they should travel. They get the data from an app, which i also download directly onto my cell phone. For the next few days, it will automatically record toward all the routes that my camera team and i take plus info about the means of transport used and our c o 2 consumption. The young researchers also go from house to house to distribute questionnaires, river friendship. We need to know what the status quo is and monitor it continuously because there are changes in individual behavior and single tenuously fish that spun is changing as well. So its still under construction. I know its one that build. So theres still a potential for the district to use new info for the next construction phase for the mix up the mobile lab shares, its data with anyone whos interested companies, city planners, and the residents themselves. The data is especially important for the planning phase. The new district is meant to learn from its mistakes. To begin with is to love is that the 1st step was tolerated, that you park your car in front of the door just in order to make your move easier. But that behavior quickly became established and turned into a habit when it was later penalize there was a big fuss, although it was never planned. That parking would be allowed there. Lets get talk. So one of the things weve learned is to work with the Development Company to make sure that these things are taken into account in the newly built areas. Billing, 60, this all over as a step, as found. There are multi story parking houses which are very well camouflage, but theyre never closer than the next public transport stuff. So that its not more attractive to take the car. My camera team and i are on board. We load 70 kilos of equipment into a cargo bike co toast. Data isnt the only one of the planners as the start us man. Hes also one of the longest residents. Your household has to click is, isnt it 1st glance, its nothing special leading to all the initial development is pretty much just concrete construction with a few exceptions about some not how it goes. But the sustainable aspect is it all comes from the lake to develop the lake didnt exist, it was excavated over the over tilted and the Environmental Impact statement. And there was stipulated that everyone driving in here was over a certain number of trucks a day would have to pay a tall. And then so that made the concrete so expensive homes that it was cheaper to produce it on the site because this was the plants we built here. And then from and then they told me that the, so the 1st phase as they start asp. Around was virtually borne out of the lake and think about the artificial like is the center of the neighborhood. The whole district is built slightly sloping towards it so that all the rain water collects there. In addition is fed by the ground water flow of the danube river. The star spun is home to some unique examples of sustainable architecture. At 24 stories and 84 meters high. The ho ho is the world. Second tallest wooden skyscraper. And Office Building is under construction here that doesnt need central heating or air conditioning. Extremely sick, brick walls make it possible the falls, the bottom in the 1st phase, sustainability. It was not the big issue. Residential development was the main concern. And we didnt even realize that was a key to says stain ability also still as the as the thing that turned out to be the case when the 1st thing started to work, we thought, wow, that worked. Now we can take it a step further, goals to then came social change when suddenly in society and in politics, the doors were opening with it too early on we argued about things like planting big trees and ended up planning small ones. Now its common front of you that the stunt is built on spongy ground under the trees and plants that theres a layer of gravel, 80 centimeters that the gaps are filled with the substrate of sand, compost, and bio chart which serves to functions. It can store water and also release nutrients with many residents, find the gravel beds around the young trees to drop various initiatives are trying to make them more attractive. But its not all that easy. The most of a desktop to mean to apply the city of vienna for the tenant in order to plant vegetation. And then you have to prove that you will take home this responsibility and that you will take care of it regularly. So piece of 80 macys balance to most such a permit can take up to 3 months for large scale projects like the communal garden of heidi mac was gartners association. You need even more patients with the joy of being able to harvest fruit and vegetables makes up for the toil. Oh, what an abundant nature blocked. Well yeah, this is. Yeah. And they have this fabulous name that cooled off about this. Im calling you told me this, thats what gets grown and when in the 1000 square meters of garden is a collective decision, vegetable gardens, sustainable architecture, good, public transport excess. None of this comes cheap. Another core principle of the study is social diversity. The sale of real estate within the project to private investors helps funds, social housing and public developments. Here. Sustainability also makes economic sense. Vast amounts of data are collected to ensure an optimized energy supply. Europes largest ever Energy Research project which employs over 200 people is underway. In the study, span sensors are installed all over the district. They record in real time, how much energy each building consumes, and how much it produces. Isaac and not this particular building is almost net 0 use is just a little more electricity than it produces as a port. Lets see if im talk next door is an energy plus building. It produces more electricity, then it consume, thats like a suspended thing to say im going to go one step further. Take a building that requires a lot of cool but, and yet it will also have a lot of waste heat. How does that warm energy is released into the atmosphere and thats problematic for the surrounding city . I mean, its more efficient and intelligent to make the waste heat available to the neighboring building. I met them not by the badge and identifying and solving problems together. The stuff is all about community, thats the message i keep hearing. Were on our way to viennas newest mind about or Municipal Building a social housing concept dating back to the 19 twentys. Come to the heart and well see nothing if we could still read on the buildings that they were financed from the revenues of the Residential Construction tax. That was a tax on luxury goods. Automobiles service personnel, entertainment such as opera and theater. And so long to us throughout the day, but all this was taxed on the funds were used to finance the Municipal Building projects organ. Uh, do you mind developing finance here . The tax no longer exists, but while other cities in europe are struggling with far willing rents and real estate, speculation over half of viennas Housing Market is city owned. 4000 new subsidize homes are in the pipeline. The city already owns 220000 apartments like these 25 percent of the n, as residents live in municipal housing. Hello. Hi. Are you coming down or com . Yes, but that right thanks. I just some estimate 5 off when i 1st came here it felt very syfy and utopian from top to bottom. I expected to see flying calm and such things for food is different. If these times, what i think is great is that the neighborhood management, even though they organize lots of projects for their vision at residence and it makes you feel very at home, isnt explaining sometimes is they start as utopian as it seems. Is this Green Urban Development project Community Living . Its best. The last stop on my visit to vienna is an intergenerational apartment block. The apartments are small, but they are also communal spaces and a roof garden. And here to a strong sense of community. Not hard to do so im just this within Sustainable Living because we borrowed things from each other and then be able ask for instance, hey, can i bore you . I n 2 and i just have my grandson visiting this. And so i needed a called a baby rocha and a hi to help us understand. I was able to borrow everything so that was great. Getting yeah, i read both women move to the study. I spend from much bigger apartments in the inner city. I move neither have ever regretted a coal safari is the miles of how many Sports Grounds that all under and around the train tracks the sewage. What did it say and that always in use p as a throughout the day just until late in the evening. Speed, im as always last uh, theres always something happen now. Do you see tv who is vibrant makes me happy, been dicking me, said for me for all the buildings and the 1st construction phase had been state subsidized, which is why so many young families live here. The next Development Phase will see the construction of private leave finance departments, lots interest houses they shed at aspen is a work in progress and learning, evolving and flourishing the dynamic economy and a rapidly expanding consumer market. India is an emerging global powerhouse, many highly skilled Young Indians who moved abroad, returning home to be part of the other guys all very good morning. Uh, welcome to our designs. A team meeting at holland mobility, a startup headquartered in hyderabad, south india, home to almost 7000000 people. C e o is 29 year old, so we cant ready. He studied in italy and spain, but after gaining a doctorate chose to return to india. I hadnt been integrative job, in fact, like its a, its a high being job that i can meet up in a 2nd down there. But what will drive me here to move is that the impact that i can create with the experience that i have. And the bigger problem that i can find. The companys fleet of over 2500. 00 electric vehicles are rented out to customer neighborhoods of money. Such as deliver