What’s the environmentalist or progressive thinking on designing rural spaces?

I live on a farm and need my car/motorbike to get around.

Rural communities can’t be served by trains because the small population doesn’t justify the cost.

Are we supposed to have train stations every 30 miles, and park-and-ride everywhere? Should we be riding quad bikes instead of cars? Really my question is: is there a generally-agreed on set of principles for progressive rural design, like there seems to be for cities?