The Northeast Corridor Interactive Megalopolis
Four decades after Jean Gottmann described the
US Northeast Corridor as a Megalopolis, the Magplane Commuting
Service can consolidate this vast urban region into an
interdependent and integrated urban system, allowing workers to live
in one metropolitan region while working in another.
The map shows the proposed alignment and the
link above, the estimated trip times for travel between the five
major metropolitan regions of this corridor: Boston, New York City,
Philadelphia, Baltimore-Washington, and Richmond.
Short travel times and affordable, convenient, and reliable service
can emulate the service characteristics of commuter rail in the days
prior to freeways.Click
here to view larger image.
The
expansion of the knowledge based labor pool for Boston's Route 128,
for example, to include workers resident in New York City, and Providence,
Rhode Island will enhance labor productivity substantially. And
Boston's knowledge intensive industries will become more globally
competitive, attracting more investment and knowledge workers into
the Northeast corridor. As knowledge labor becomes more specialized,
the interdependence of the metropolitan regions in this corridor
will grow, ushering in the Interactive Megalopolis.
With
the arrival of the "Virtual Workplace," daily commutes may not become
necessary for many of these workers. However the ability to transport
a worker 400 km with the utmost reliability, speed, convenience,
and economy to meet with clients and coworkers, will influence the
ability of companies to recruit and locate workers in adjacent metropolitan
regions, or points in between. Magplane can accelerate the development
of a "Virtual Workplace" for the American labor force.
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