Podcast – Transportation and the Cost of Convenience

Our transportation system underlies all of modern life, playing a vital role in everything from getting us our morning cup of coffee to moving us to our jobs to bringing yesterday’s Amazon order to our door.

But it’s something we tend to take for granted until things go wrong — heavy traffic, air travel delays or roadway collapses. And because we’ve failed to invest in keeping our system robust, those events happen more and more often. Meanwhile, transportation is undergoing major shifts — with new technologies and upgraded methods.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes looked at this unique world in his book Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation. He joined the Knowledge@Wharton Show on Sirius XM channel 111 to talk about where it is all heading.

Edward Humes

Full Story: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/edward-humes-book-interview-door-to-door/