Future of Transportation

The future of transportation floats. It's a new mode of transportation.

The future of transportation floats. Its source of motion is gravity.

The course of today’s transportation is unsustainable. Where’s the solution? The electric motors in cars don’t prevent traffic jams. The computer driven cars don’t minimize traffic.

Where are the answers to find sustainable transportation? The automobile became Western Society’s main source for transportation 125 years ago. Trains were a technology built to meet the transportation needs of society 200 years ago. Airplane technology is 100 years old and still can’t fly into space.

Floatation, since the 1940s, remains an unsought science for transportation. Floatation was used as a lighter-than-air technology with blimps and dirigible balloons.

Magnetic levitation (maglev) technology provides an efficient use of energy by removing friction.

In the early 2000s, China purchased the rights to use the German, Transrapid International maglev technology. In 2004, they became the first country to have built a public maglev system with their 19-mile Shanghai maglev train from Pudong to the Shanghai airport. 

China has since built its own technology and is now building its sixth maglev line of several variations of maglev.

Japan is building their own maglev technology train. The Chuo Shinkansen is being built between Tokyo and Nagoya, a 178-mile distance. This maglev system uses superconductor technology.

Although maglev technology is new, trains are a very old transportation system. All train technology is tied to its urban land-use. In transit oriented designed communities, train technology provides large groups of people the ability to go from station to station.

The foundation to all urban growth is its primary source of transportation. The automobile centric land-use design does not support mass rail transit as a functional transportation alternative in its land-use design. The automobile is wholly unsustainable. This demands a new mode of sustainable transportation.

What’s to be used for a new mode of transportation? What is transportation’s future? Is it more cars with electric motors? Cars that use hydrogen combustion motors? Computer systems that operate cars? An electric version of helicopters and planes? Reintroducing dual mode train-tracks to carry cars? 

There are six modes of transportation: walking, animals, boats, trains, automobiles, and airplanes. A new mode of transportation uses something totally different. What’s different? Something that uses floatation. That is the future of transportation. A new mode of transportation. 

Where does the research start? By recognizing the past and choosing research with a different perspective. This perspective begins by answering a question: what floats? Magnetism allows floatation. 

The other question is, can gravity be used? This requires answering the question: what is gravity? By understanding how gravity works, can it be manipulated to use an opposing force for flotation?

The answers to these questions can provide the future for transportation. 

Maglev has been introduced to public transit and is used for high density transit oriented land-use transportation in China. 

Hyperloop technology is proposed with maglev technology

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Where’s the gravity research for the next mode of transportation? It requires investment. The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology and Climate Change has acquired a new theory for gravity.