ArchivesTag : transportation
Autonomous Vehicles Could be the Future
It is possible that autonomous vehicles could be the flying car of the 2030′s – I am forever answering the question “what ever happened to the flying car envisioned in the 1960′s?”. But this concept car, imagined by Charles Rattray, captures many of the concepts I first heard about when working with the U.S. Federal [...]
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Future of transportation – driverless pods at Heathrow
Personal Rapid Transit systems have been on the drawing boards for ages. Call up a small, personal, driverless, autonomous vehicle, program your destination, get in and off you go. Prototypes have been built but such systems have generally not gotten off the drawing board. Until now at Heathrow airport in the UK. Yes, the destinations [...]
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Growing the Idaho Economy: Moving Into the Future
Growing the Idaho Economy: Moving Into the Future is a research report that Glen and a team he led completed for the Idaho Transportation Department in 2010. We have been sharing it with potential clients and you can download it from our In the News page. It is a report on transportation and the possible [...]
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Building Integrated Transportation Systems
Vision 2050 was a U.S. effort to envision an integrated transportation system, produced by the U.S. Department of Transportation System in 2001. I wrote about that effort, in which I had a small role, recently. The blog Green Joyment picked up on that piece recently in an article by Lisa Carey. She notes that we [...]
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Transportation: Vision 2050
On January 25, 2011 President Barak Obama will deliver the 2011 “State of the Union” address to the U.S. Congress and the nation. The text of the speech has not yet been released, but reports are that among other things the President will call for are national investments to keep the United States competitive in [...]
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Space Tourism 2011
(Written with Catherine Otten) The space experience race is on. I have always wanted to go into space. It could happen sooner than we think. All I need is the money. According to the Space Tourism Society, billionaires such as Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, and Sir Richard Branson are spending hundreds of millions of dollars [...]
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Driving in 2020: Commuting Meets Computing
Driving in 2020: Commuting Meets Computing is an article that Glen wrote in the September-October 2000 issue of the The Futurist about the future of cars and technology. So far we’ve made it halfway to 2020 and his predictions don’t seem to be too far off. I think the auto industry may be a bit [...]
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Growing the Idaho Economy: Moving into the Future
I was born in the beautiful state of Idaho, and lived there the first decade of my life. Consequently, I always look forward to opportunities to work with consulting clients in Idaho as I feel an affinity for the place. This year one of my major projects involved assisting the State of Idaho Transportation Department [...]
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Back to the Future Transportation
One of the amusing, and sad, things about discussions of the future of transit in the U.S. is that it is so often discussed in one of two ways, both intended to make it seem rather outlandish. First, it is discussed as something vaguely foreign – sure, they have widespread transit in Europe, but we [...]
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A transportation vision
One of the most interesting people trying to invent the future of transportation is Dan Sturges. An original developer of the GEM electric vehicle, more recently Dan has been a leader at Intrago Mobility, which is promoting a whole-systems approach to transportation. Recently he spoke to a SMART conference, in this 10-minute overview of the [...]
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