The book provides a comprehensive analysis and evaluates the performances of existing and future transport systems. The evaluation is mainly measured by the level of automation, operating speed, and greening effect. The book reviews road-based automated and electric cars, rail-based HSR (High-Speed Rail) and Maglev, air-based UAM (Urban Air Mobility) and supersonic LH2 (Liquid Hydrogen) powered 2 SCAT (Supersonic Commercial Air Transport) and evacuated - HYP (Hyperloop) and submerged ETT (Evacuated Tube Transport) systems. Infrastructural, technical, operational, economic, environmental, social, and policy performances are analysed, and the analytical models of indicators have been developed. The models of indicators are applied using inputs from real-life and hypothetical "what-if" scenario-based cases, respecting the preferences of the main stakeholders involved such as drivers, passengers, transport operators, policymakers, and local, regional, national, and global communities. A SWOT analysis is applied to the qualitative evaluation of these systems, indicating their potential advantages and disadvantages for the stakeholders involved.

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Milan Janic is a transport and traffic engineer and planner currently affiliated as a Research Professor at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Previously, he was a Senior Researcher at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Loughborough University and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and the Institute of Transport of the Slovenian Railways, Slovenia. Dr. Janic was involved in numerous major research and planning projects, published numerous papers in scientific and professional journals, contributed to many edited volumes, and has authored 10 books. Dr Janic used to be a member of the Editorial Board of several transport research journals, associations and conferences such as NECTAR (Network on European Communications and Transport Activity Research), Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay Committee of TRB (Transportation Research Board) (USA), GARS (German Aviation Research Society, Germany), and Delft Aviation Centre (Netherlands). Additionally, Dr. Janic was ranked among Stanford's top 2% of scientists globally from 2022 to 2024.