What hard science fictions have earth-only near-future transportation inventions and how they effect society?

Answer 1

Sorry, I can't think of any.

Larry Niven, normally a hard science fiction author, wrote a number of short stories based around teleporation booths.

Isaac Asimov wrote a couple of stories like that too.

Heinlein wrote "The Roads Must Roll."

Answer 2

The only really good near future book I can think of at the moment is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. It was outstanding.

Answer 3

The one I created for THE STARCHILD uses sky tube terminal technology; utilizing sky tubes connected to the orbiting space complex above Earth and connecting terminals to the ground.

But this book isn't published yet. But the technology itself has made ground to space travel more economical.

Answer 4

" stars my Destination" posited that people could teleport if their lives were indanger and then later at will. The result was that nobody had any privacy and crime was rampant as people could commit a crime and then " POP" somewhere else.