Near future
Contact us
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • energia
  • Transportation
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • Gadgets
  • Italy Next
  • H+
June 30 2022

Coronavirus / Russia-Ukraine

Near future

News to understand, anticipate, improve the future.

No Result
View All Result

News to understand, anticipate, improve the future.

Read in:  Chinese (Simplified)EnglishFrenchGermanItalianJapanesePortugueseRussianSpanish

Dunkirk has free buses and the recipe for a better world

An apparently utopian measure produces extraordinary real effects. The story of Dunkirk's free buses, a new rescue that starts here.

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
in Environment, Society, Transportation
Share45Pin4Tweet11SendShare3ShareShare2
Dunkirk has free buses and the recipe for a better world
15 September 2019
⚪ Reads in 3 minutes
A A

Among those who know a bit of History and others who have seen Nolan's wonderful film, everyone or almost everyone should know Dunkirk. Dunkirk, as the locals call it.

Dunkirk free buses
First theater of war, then industrial center, now pole of the Green economy?

A year ago the town of Dunkirk made its public bus system completely free. That's right: free buses. A year later, the surveys activated show that the provision has changed the citizens' habits, producing two immediate results: an increase in races and a collapse of cars.

The use of public transport has grown considerably, doubling on weekends and reaching + 60% on other days.

A better place

More than the growth of the rides, it notes how free public buses are used. Dunkirk saw more than 70% of its residents depend on cars: in just one year, more than half of citizens said they used more transport public, or more than ever before. Of these, 48% said they regularly use the bus instead of the car. Some (about 5% of the total) have sold the car or avoided buying a second one in the family.

Maybe you are also interested

Bus or train? In Japan the two-mode vehicle starts

CAPS 2.0, bus stop that purifies the air, cuts smog and kills viruses

Free Wi-Fi on the highway soon

Free bus

Pleasant news

Free buses are unlocking a whole host of new activities. 33% of passengers said they had visited points in the city that they would not have considered. The buses of the future are the ones that the authorities offer us for free.

I am not surprised that such an initiative creates new question: making a service free not only removes the price, but also a good part of the psychological limits that this price brought with it. Therefore, also a playful use of the medium with new and extemporaneous uses.

Also France24 expresses his enthusiasm underlining the evident symbolic value of the initiative. "It has become a sign of freedom, attracting even those who would never have thought of using public transport". Let's talk about one worker city of almost 100.000 inhabitants, it's not a joke.

"People are broadening their horizons: rediscovering being able to move freely is a prerequisite to looking for a job, maintaining a friendship, participating in cultural events".

To benefit from the service, however, not only workers or disadvantaged people, but white-collar workers, students, pensioners, all. An entire society that starts up again.

It's all true

It is extraordinary to measure oneself with the effects of measures that at first glance may seem totally utopian. It's futurology for free!

How much does it cost to make this service free? And what is the balance between the economic and social costs and benefits that derive from making it free?

Attract new residents. Accelerate all kinds of economic and cultural activities, bringing them many more people. Improve efficiency and access to public services and institutions. Abate the circulation of polluting cars and harmful emissions.

Just a little bit of salt in the pumpkin to understand that measures such as Dunkirk's should be taken with closed eyes, without a doubt.

All the Stories of miraculous rescues pass through these parts, and this too is a powerful message.

tags: Busfree
Previous post

The new AR does not create dizziness or nausea

Next Post

Plastic roads for the cars of the future

COLLABORATE

To submit articles, disclose the results of a research or scientific discoveries write to the editorial staff

    archive

    Have a look here:

    3D holographic dashboard can improve passenger safety
    Technology

    3D holographic dashboard can improve passenger safety

    A 3D holographic display integrated into the dashboard and capable of providing a "super view" of the road is in the early stages ...

    Read More
    octopuses1

    University of Pennsylvania creates octopus-inspired camouflage technology

    Rapamycin slows skin aging: first human studies.

    Rapamycin slows skin aging: first human studies.

    moon oxygen

    The moon has enough oxygen for 8 billion people for 100.000 years

    Automation is a tsunami wave that will overwhelm us.

    Automation is a tsunami wave that will overwhelm us.

    The daily tomorrow

    Futuroprossimo.it provides news on the future of technology, science and innovation: if there is something that is about to arrive, here it has already arrived. FuturoProssimo is part of the network ForwardTo, studies and skills for future scenarios.

    Subscribe to our newsletter

    Environment
    Architecture
    Artificial intelligence
    Gadgets
    concepts
    Design

    Staff
    Archives
    Advertising
    Privacy Policy

    Medicine
    Spazio
    Robotica
    Work
    Transportation
    energia

    To contact the FuturoProssimo editorial team, write to [email protected]

    Chinese Version
    Édition Française
    Deutsche Ausgabe
    Japanese version
    English Edition
    Edição Portuguesa
    Русское издание
    Spanish edition

    This work is distributed under license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
    © 2021 Futuroprossimo

    No Result
    View All Result
    • Home
    • Tech
    • Health
    • Environment
    • Architecture
    • energia
    • Transportation
    • Spazio
    • AI
    • concepts
    • Gadgets
    • Italy Next
    • H+