Discussion Transportation efficiency 2013

On October 22, 2012, Thomas W. Malone, John Sterman, Jason Jay, and Robert Laubacher of MIT led a Sloan Innovation Period (SIP) class entitled “The Climate CoLab: Working with People from All Over the World to Address Climate Change.” In the class, students generated a series of initial ideas for selected Climate CoLab contests, voted on the ones they liked best, and then created proposals in the CoLab based on the top-ranked ideas. The initial ideas generated for the “Transportation efficiency” contest were: - High speed rail network in the United States, focused on improving and rebranding the train experience - Congestion pricing for drivers by raising tolls during peak hours - Peer-to-peer car sharing/renting The high speed rail idea served as the basis for a draft proposal submitted by the students, Develop High-Speed Rail Network in the US: https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/7/planId/1000604