Is this mentioned in any official lore? if not what do you believe would be the most logical mode of transport the average joe would use to travel in the cities of earth like words? would cars still exist?
What mode of planetary transport do people on Earth-likes use?
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No, you settle an ELW you don't want to build roads, that's a huge investment for little return, the road network on earth took thousands of years to develop to its current state, be some sort of maglev between cities and light electric vehicles inside cities at most, scooters, electric bikes and etc.
If you check the Galnet archive, you can see some official artwork showing cities. There is not much detail, but you can see roads as well as flying vehicles.
Additionally, if you look well in the starports, you can see roads, and number of lorries, towing vehicles and buses, some parked, some moving around.
Shame that there is so little to be seen at the planetary ports.
Edit: I reckon I've given an answer that is wider than the question
Additionally, if you look well in the starports, you can see roads, and number of lorries, towing vehicles and buses, some parked, some moving around.
Shame that there is so little to be seen at the planetary ports.
Edit: I reckon I've given an answer that is wider than the question
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In one of the official lore novels “And Here The Wheel” by John Harper, cars are definitely used.
Quite a good book actually, as pulp sci-fi goes.
Quite a good book actually, as pulp sci-fi goes.
You have to ride flying fish. But they just go where they want to, which is normally wet, so I guess after that you just walk.
Real commanders ride to places on a Verrix.
e-bikes. I certainly wish I had one to get from the turbo-lift to the blue teleporter at the front of my Corvette.
I'd like to teleport directly to the concourse! Pick up on foot missions from the ship menus too.. 
The lights we see night-side on most ELWS within the Bubble look very much like what we see on Earth today: city-clusters, connected by strings of smaller clusters. Here's a current Odyssey screenshot of the ELW in my home system:
On Earth, this happens because the cities are all strung out along the roads and highways, with settlements and industries located near the roads for convenience. Here's a NASA equivalent screenshot of central North America, showing the effect:
The road-strings aren't quite as prominent on ED planets as they are on 21st century Earth, but they are still there. So yes, logically, there are still "roads", which ought by extension to have "cars" and "trucks" running on them. A purely "flying-car-based" civilization would not need those tendrils of illumination connecting the cities.
There'd also be "flying cars" and their "flying-truck" analogues, too. As a general rule, I would presume the wealthier people would use the flying cars, with the poorer people ground-bound. For cargo, time-sensitive items like fruit would go by air, while less sensitive things like grain and fertilizer would go by land.
On Earth, this happens because the cities are all strung out along the roads and highways, with settlements and industries located near the roads for convenience. Here's a NASA equivalent screenshot of central North America, showing the effect:
The road-strings aren't quite as prominent on ED planets as they are on 21st century Earth, but they are still there. So yes, logically, there are still "roads", which ought by extension to have "cars" and "trucks" running on them. A purely "flying-car-based" civilization would not need those tendrils of illumination connecting the cities.
There'd also be "flying cars" and their "flying-truck" analogues, too. As a general rule, I would presume the wealthier people would use the flying cars, with the poorer people ground-bound. For cargo, time-sensitive items like fruit would go by air, while less sensitive things like grain and fertilizer would go by land.
I believe that pneumatic tubes are the transportation method of choice on these worlds.
That will certainly make it easy for FDev to make earth-likes landable. After all, Earth is just a wasteland after the apocalypse.
Anti grav cars like in star wars.
Everything automated so getting a manual is retro but sought after.
It's a good question Op.
Guess we all want an environmentally safer better future.
It's a huge problem which needs resolving today. Wars and money take precedence though in humanitys vain attempt at power and wealth.
Till all that changes God only knows what transport we will develop.
Oil will run out. Become to hard to extract as per demand globally.
Electronic cars need batteries made from rare commodities like lithium so their limited too. Does mining it justify its mass production? More pollution.
No easy answer except perhaps cars trucks etc that can manipulate our gravity hehe.
Everything automated so getting a manual is retro but sought after.
It's a good question Op.
Guess we all want an environmentally safer better future.
It's a huge problem which needs resolving today. Wars and money take precedence though in humanitys vain attempt at power and wealth.
Till all that changes God only knows what transport we will develop.
Oil will run out. Become to hard to extract as per demand globally.
Electronic cars need batteries made from rare commodities like lithium so their limited too. Does mining it justify its mass production? More pollution.
No easy answer except perhaps cars trucks etc that can manipulate our gravity hehe.
Well, we have two wheeled SRVs. The vehicle traffic inside space stations is also wheeled and using roads. I don't see why vehicles on planets would be different from the ones we already know