urbanism

because not everyone wants to wait for public transit or make a long drive, an increasing number of people are choosing to live in cities instead of the countryside.

Just to note here, I don't think that rings true. Germany is a very urbanized society by statistics, I mean it's just dense, the furthest point you can get from civilization is like a half hour walk or something, but it is also incredibly sprawled out for european standards because the government subsidizes the single family home in the suburbs quite heavily. "Countryside" in germany is being like 5km from the nearest city centers and there's only a few appartment blocks.

There is an incredible amount of unused, but useable, railways just laying about the countryside that this could work for, I have one near me and it would be a very, very good public transport option, but honestly, they should just reactivate the fucking train tracks there and run trains.