Transport systems all over the world are grinding to a halt. Urbanisation and all the competing demands for easy, low-cost mobility and logistics mean congestion and pollution. For all the protests over new airport runways, the building of yet more roads and the climate emergency, we continue to live with old transport infrastructures and only a piecemeal and tentative introduction of potential green replacements.
What is needed is a powerful wave of new tech - transport's version of the internet technology revolution. Tech with such potential that it can drag the rest of the world - businesses, governments and regulators - along with it.
The internet overcame a host of business frustrations and limitations - speed, efficiency, cost, awareness, access, market insight - and we need the same for transport to sweep away the mess and tangle of approaches, where freedom of mobility is inextricably linked with environmental harm.
Hydrogen flight could well...