Cover -- Contents -- About the author -- Foreword by Gwendoline Cazenave -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Disclaimer -- 1 The great fragmentation: How new challenges are different from the old -- The complex world -- New services for growing cities -- The universal pressure to create value -- Key takeaways -- Notes -- 2 The steel backbone: How infrastructure drove mobility growth in rail -- How new track transforms regions -- International high-speed -- Speed trade-offs -- China: The world's biggest high-speed network -- New challengers to rail -- Towards a pan-European rail network -- Key takeaways -- Notes -- 3 Designing futures: Why long-term planning is needed and is increasingly difficult -- Political compromises and sub-optimal decisions -- Rail and urban development -- Planning under political cycles -- High-speed rail at snail's pace -- High-speed rail challenges in California -- The current state of US rail -- Stop-go all over the world -- Key takeaways -- Notes -- 4 Two keys to growth: Standardization and liberalization -- Standardization -- Liberalization -- Key takeaways -- Notes -- 5 The global illness: How Covid changed the mobility industry -- Travel restrictions introduced worldwide -- Previous disasters and travel downturns -- The long path back to normal -- Global recovery -- Hybrid working -- Purposeful business travel -- New growth in leisure travel -- How shipping struggled and then recovered -- The (even faster) rise of online commerce -- Lessons from Covid -- Key takeaways -- Notes -- 6 New values for a new era: Gender inclusivity and decarbonization -- Gender inclusivity -- Decarbonization -- Imperatives for change -- Maritime shipping -- Aviation: The biggest challenge? -- Trucks, supertrucks and beyond -- A new era for trains? -- Electric cars and a geopolitical shift -- China's international expansion -- Key takeaways.