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Synopsis: Transport & travel: Transport:

British designer Phil Pauley has developed a concept for a sea habitat comprising interconnected spherical modules that could submerge during storms

from gauging distances between cars in adaptive cruise control to mapping forest canopies and detecting the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere.

   At a spot in an ancient road that previous surveys had marked down as little more than a widening of the carriageway,

It seemed that the wide spot in the road was in reality a surprisingly large pre-Hispanic capital.

The more buildings, roads, wells, agricultural terraces and residential complexes are found, the higher the number of people that lived there.

they achieved a 20%increase in tobacco plants after adding a single cyanobacteria gene called inorganic carbon transporter B (Ictb.

including oereckless Road, which describes the early days of heavy metal band Guns n roses. oereckless Road weaves in dozens of videos of the L a. bands early performances and interviews with band members and groupies.

The videos and other digital features are designed to oeproject the emotion of the book without getting in the way of the story,

which can be turned into biofuel for transportation and other needs. Commercial Synergies The Sahara Forest Project team tell us that the innovative interaction between the two technologies helps each to function more efficiently:

even though like a medieval toll road it is long and bumpy and full of intermediaries eager to take their cut.

even though like a medieval toll road it is long and bumpy and full of intermediaries eager to take their cut.

Many public transit cards are contactless smart cards: a passenger can touch or wave the card over the turnstile to gain entry.

E-cash: Digital money that emulates properties of physical cash such as anonymous exchange. Public transit smart cards, such as Suica (Tokyo), Octopus (Hong kong) and Oyster (London), can be used as e-cash

when anonymity is preserved by not registering the card with a central authority. Mobile banking, m-banking, m-payments:

Wireless point-of-sale terminals allow people with no access to brick -and-mortar banks to make deposits, withdrawals, payments, etc.

even though like a medieval toll road it is long and bumpy and full of intermediaries eager to take their cut.

The Road to Davos To grasp the difference between today s plutocrats and the hereditary elite,

as he attempts to rewrite the rules for major industries by pushing initiatives like driverless vehicles,

Driverless cars and Autonomous Vehicles The next revolution in transportation will be here soon, and it won t be streetcars, monorails, Segway s,

or electric vehicles. It will be self-driving cars, and the adoption of this technology will change virtually everything in the field of transportation planning.

The idea of jumping into a vehicle and having it shuttle you to your destination without anyone driving#it may sound like pure fantasy to some,

but it s far closer than most of us think. Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 150

a 13,000 km test run of autonomous vehicles. In this competition, 4 driverless electric vans successfully drove from Italy to China, arriving at the Shanghai Expo on October 28, 2010.

This was the first intercontinental trip ever completed by an autonomous vehicle. Many car companies including General motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW,

Most local and regional transportation departments are working with models that assume 20 years from now transportation systems will be basically the same, with only slight variations around the edges.

The department of motor vehicles seems to be the epitome of mind-numbingly long wait times and Johnson County,

Elevated Tube Transport Engineers The next big infrastructure project on planet earth will be a human and cargo transport system designed around a network of vacuum tubes with maglev tracks.

and train systems, this emerging tube transport system will be a massive undertaking that demands talented new-age thinkers for decades to come.

it will create untold opportunity for non-surface based housing and transportation system, weather control, and other kinds of experimentation. 53.

The world s first fully 3d printed car called, The Urbee The Urbee is a hybrid vehicle that has its entire body

controls safety features, entertains passengers, guides drivers to destinations and connects each car to mobile, satellite and GPS networks.

The trend toward hybrid and electric vehicles will only accelerate the software shift#lectric cars are controlled completely computer.

The modern combat soldier is embedded in a web of software that provides intelligence, communications, logistics and weapons guidance.

Mobile phone carriers, banks, credit card issuers, payment networks and technology companies are all vying to control these wallets.

You have banks competing with carriers competing with Apple and Google, and its pretty much a goat rodeo until someone sorts it out.#

as well as Apple and the mobile carriers, which want to collect fees through their control of the phones themselves.

They have to install terminals that accept mobile payments. Consumer advocates meanwhile, said they were concerned that a mobile system would bring higher fees

Mobile carriers may demand that the card issuers pay them something akin to rent, or reach some other agreement,

product manager for Wells fargos card services and consumer lending, adding that the banking industrys past conversations with mobile carriers had not been fruitful

The mobile carriers frustration with the banks some analysts said, was the impetus behind a joint venture by Verizon, AT&T,

and sees it as an opportunity to expand in the United states. Referring to the carriers 200 million customers, Amer Sajed,

#The banks and credit card issuers, meanwhile, have found a way to temporarily avoid working with the cellphone carriers.

Other global markets may have a single dominant mobile carrier or a small number of banks,

but is better for them. 5. A nose that knows Breath analysis can do drunk more than keep drivers off the road.

Meyerson admits to some less successful calls#especially one about hydrogen-powered vehicles#but he s pretty happy overall with IBM s effort.

even though rising labor and transportation costs in Asia and fears of intellectual property theft are now bringing some work back to the West.

As many as eight robots perform a ballet around each vehicle as it stops at each station along the line for just five minutes.

When the company adds a sport utility vehicle next year, it will be built on the same assembly line,

Hyundai and Beijing Motors recently completed a mammoth factory outside Beijing that can produce a million vehicles a year using more robots

and darting electric vehicles as workers with headsets are directed to cases of food by a computer that speaks to them in four languages.

and as foot traffic has increased, turnover rates in many stores have increased, too. Internal surveys at stores have also found surprising dissatisfaction levels, particularly among technicians,

you re done. 6. The Congestion Killer Traffic jams can form out of the simplest things.

One driving-simulator study found that nearly half the time one vehicle passed another, the lead vehicle had a faster average speed.

All this leads to highway turbulence, which is why many traffic modelers see adaptive cruise control (A c. C.)#which automatically maintains a set distance behind a car and the vehicle in front of it#as the key to congestion relief.

Simulations have found that if some 20 percent of vehicles on a highway were equipped with advanced A c. C.,

certain jams could be avoided simply through harmonizing speeds and smoothing driver reactions. One study shows that even a highway that is running at peak capacity has only 4. 5 percent of its surface area occupied.

When a quarter of the vehicles on a simulated highway had A c. C, . cumulative travel time dropped by 37.5 percent.

but little true innovation Transportation At CES, Ford motor Company unveiled its first-ever zero emissions, electric passenger vehicle, following in the footsteps of Tesla and Nissan.

and tech trimming lies some far bigger opportunities. 5.)Driverless cars The next revolution in transportation will be self-driving cars,

and the adoption of this technology will change virtually everything in the field of transportation and urban planning.

The idea of jumping into a vehicle and having it shuttle you to your destination without anyone driving#it may sound like pure fantasy to some,

Better to practice without passengers onboard to perfect the technology. Railroads and trucking companies should be worried as this will displace much of their industry.

I happen to be a big fan of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) and already own an AR Drone.

or even on the side of a moving vehicle. 9.)Lighting Drones We ve been trapped into thinking that lighting can only be managed from stationary positions,

No need to wait until serious damage occurs to your vehicle. 16. Body Scanner Complete with Instant Clothing Fabricator Scanners that can create a virtual framework for custom tailored clothing is already in use.

reduced-pressure tube where pressurised capsules whisk passengers across Doha in seconds and throughout the Gulf Cooperation Council,

AN AUTOMOTIVE REVOLUTION Commuting is transformed as self-driving vehicles eliminate accidents and free up time for leisure and work.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers predicted that autonomous cars would account for up to 75 percent of vehicles on the road by the year 2040.

and material science advances would reduce the typical passenger vehicle to around 90 kilograms in weight,

By the time he puts his hands back on the wheel and glances up at the road

But nowadays the vehicle is marked clearly:##oeself-Driving Car.##Every week for the past year and a half, Levandowski has taken the Lexus on the same slightly surreal commute.

The ride takes him over surface streets and freeways, old salt flats and pine-green foothills, across the gusty blue of San francisco bay,

In rush-hour traffic, it can take two hours, but Levandowski doesn t mind. He thinks of it as research.

and rocket ships, transporter beams and cities beneath the sea, of a predicted future still well beyond our technology.

Its suburbs and skyscrapers were laced together by superhighways full of radio-guided cars.##oedoes it seem strange?

Skyscrapers and superhighways made the deadline, but driverless cars still putter along in prototype. Human beings, as it turns out,

A sedan cruises down a highway, guided by circuits in the road, while a family plays dominoes inside.#

#oeno traffic jam...no collisions...no driver fatigue.##From 1977: Engineers huddle around a driverless Ford on a test track.#

#oecars like this one may be on the nation s roads by the year 2000!##Levandowski shook his head.#

smart roads and smart cars. General motors pioneered the first approach in the late nineteen-fifties.

Its Firebird III concept car#haped like a jet fighter, with titanium tail fins and a glass-bubble cockpit#as designed to run on a test track embedded with an electrical cable,

like the slot on a toy speedway. As the car passed over the cable, a receiver in its front end picked up a radio signal

#oewhy would we invest in putting wires in the road?##Smart cars were more flexible but also more complex.

By 1995, Dickmanns s car was able to drive on the Autobahn from Munich to Odense,

And though Congress had set a goal that a third of all ground combat vehicles be autonomous by 2015,

Ernst Dickmanns s car had gone similar distances on the Autobahn, but always with a driver in the seat to take over in the tricky stretches.

and the road would be rough: from Barstow, California, to Primm, Nevada. Instead of smooth curves and long straightaways, it had rocky climbs and hairpin turns;

#darpa s rules were vague on the subject of vehicles: anything that could drive itself would do.

They added cameras, gyros, G. P. S. modules, computers, roll bars, and an electric motor to turn the wheel.

-and-a-half obstacle course on the California Speedway in Fontana. But that was its high-water mark.

gathering statistics and formulating their own rules of the road.##oewhen we started, the car was going about two to four miles an hour along a path through a park#ou could ride a tricycle faster,

It may confuse the shadow of a tree for the edge of the road, or reflected headlights for lane markers.

It may decide that a bag floating across a road is a solid object and swerve to avoid it.

particularly when they re controlling a two-ton vehicle.##Computers, like children, are taught more often by rote.

The roughest roads in the Grand Challenge were often the easiest to navigate, because they had clear paths and well-defined shoulders.

the computer learned to identify the flat parts as road and the bumpy parts as shoulders.

and walk through parking lots and past multilane roads, the transportation infrastructure dominates, #Brin said.##oeit s a huge tax on the land.#

A fleet of vehicles could operate as a personalized public-transportation system, picking people up and dropping them off independently, waiting at parking lots between calls.

every logging road logged on a computer, every gravel drive driven down. Over the next two years, Levandowski shuttled back and forth to Hyderabad, India,

But the moment Levandowski enters the freeway ramp near his house, a colorful graphic appears.

It s a schematic view of the road: two solid white vertical lines marking the boundaries of the highway

there are two on the far side of the freeway, shown in green on the schematic. Levandowski s car and those around him are represented by little white squares.

And with that, Levandowski has handed off control of his vehicle to software named Google Chauffeur. He takes his feet off the pedals and puts his hands in his lap.

and mandates for car-borne beacons that will broadcast location information to other vehicles on the road.

for example, or another vehicle swerves erratically into traffic. Automakers may then use this information to take the next step:

Following Google policy, Levandowski drives through residential roads and surface streets himself, while Chauffeur drives the freeways.

Still, it s a lot better than driving the whole way. Levandowski has his hands on the wheel for just 14 minutes of his hour-long commute:

and during the tricky freeway interchanges on the San mateo Bridge. The rest of the time, he can relax.#

Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles,

but they are also simply doing their job: ferrying Google employees back and forth from work. Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars#asily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof#n average of once an hour.

Google itself reports that collectively the cars have driven more than 500,000 miles without crashing. At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year, where Governor Jerry brown signed California s self-driving-car bill into law, Google cofounder Sergey Brin said#oeyou

For example, it might mistake a parked truck for a small building or a mailbox for a child standing by the side of the road.

#he said and then ticked off the goodies#oethe Android operating system, search, voice, social, maps, navigation, even Chauffeur.#

#oefor the autonomous vehicle, I m kind of the only thing that works,#Hall says. Industry scuttlebutt has it that Ford is giving Google the most serious consideration.

#oeautomated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United states.##Probably. In Smith s analysis, the legal concept of#oedriver#goes back to an international agreement called the Geneva convention on Road Traffic,

Thus, in the eyes of the law, an autonomous vehicle is arguably similar to a horse-drawn buggy.

For the autonomous vehicle that now drives Levandowski to work, the answer (according to Smith) is logical:

New york s vehicle code, for example, directs that#oeno person shall operate a motor vehicle without having at least one hand or

in the case of a physically handicapped person, at least one prosthetic device or aid on the steering mechanism at all times when the motor vehicle is in motion.#

Its DMV even designed special license plates for the vehicles (they have an infinity sign. California, Florida,

The vehicle-to-vehicle communications standard soon to be announced by NHSTA would at least in theory, enable all makes

not only would traffic jams become a thing of the past, every stoplight would also be green.

and adaptive cruise control (ACC). In level two, level-one features like lane centering and ACC tie together

Both use a combination of radar and computer vision to center the vehicle in the lane

and oversight to guard against situations like a deer running into the road; the car must be able to hand back control with no warning.

-and vision-based pedestrian-avoidance systems fail to see the proverbial child running into the road 1 or 2 percent of the time.#

#oegoogle s main focus and vision,#says Medford,#oeis for a level-four vehicle.##Via Pop Sci Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati

water is heavy and difficult to transport. Plastic bottle made water far more transportable, but it created a whole new set of problems.

#Top 10 cutting-edge technologies in development Tube transportation is the future of transportation. You shouldn t give up on flying cars or hoverboards just yet.

called the Evacuated Tube Transport, is the future of transportation, and it very well may be. Its track is contained within a sealed,

pressurized vacuum tube, making the capsules conceivably capable of speeds up 6, 500 kph (4, 000 mph),

all while subjecting the passenger to G-forces comparable to that of a leisurely ride on the highway

ET3 will be global space travel On earth Daryl Oster, CEO for Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies. Elon musk is a brilliant, big-thinking, subtly accented,

Musk unveiled his idea for a next-generation transportation system on August 12th, and it got the attention of about every news organization between Earth and Mars,

Oster, 51, runs a consortium called ET3, for Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies, and his vision has the rare distinction of being even bolder than one emerging from the mind of Elon musk. Like Hyperloop,

Oster promotes a planetary network capable of speeding a passenger from New york to Beijing in two hours.#

A Victorian pneumatic tube system zipped the note across the road to the office and brought back an invoice.#

so he worked for smaller firms#here an autonomous military land vehicle, there a mower for golf course greens.

a Rand Corporation study on Very High Speed Transport had been gathering dust for more than a decade.

no rolling resistance-that could hit 14,000 mph taking passengers from New york to Los angeles in 21 minutes.

life-support and sanity-preserving systems (such as big video screens to distract its passengers from the fact that they re hurtling through the choking darkness),

and lower costs throughout the system#one-tenth that of high speed rail or a quarter of the cost of a freeway,

and long enough for 28 passengers. Musk also elevates his tubes, which have an internal diameter of 7 4,

what amounts to an airbag would slow the vehicle from its 760-mph tear. Some of that air is channeled to 28 air bearings

Of course, asking a transportation expert about ET3 vs. Hyperloop is like asking an NFL scout to rank Quidditch prospects.

Experts in traditional transportation tend to be flummoxed by these systems, with their strange technologies and disregard for the traditional boundaries of road, rail and air, transit and cargo.

With respect to ET3, Texas A&m Transportation Institute spokesman Rick Davenport said in an email, #oethis is the first

#but claustrophobia will be a real problem for some passengers. Even in the closed tube of an airplane, they can get up and go to the bathroom,

adding that even the notion of bathrooms assuages passengers who need a sense of possible escape.

and said the devil will ultimately be in the details of evacuated tube transport. Those details range from minimizing g-forces around curves (Hyperloop anticipates 0. 5gs of lateral force;

and a maglev study found passengers get sick at 0. 2gs#not good, especially without a bathroom) to keeping terrorists and saboteurs from soft targets that,

Then he went toe-to-toe with Musk in a discussion of evacuated-tube transport.

U s. airline passenger miles have leapt by a factor of 20; we drive, collectively, 250%more miles in more than twice as many vehicles;

and our atmosphere is laden with 21%more carbon dioxide. These sorts of ambitious transportation projects may be just what the country

and the environment needs, said Powell, the maglev pioneer.##oewe had the Apollo project and people got really excited about that.

The interstate highway system. The Internet. But right now we don t have any of that excitement going on,

Every kind of tree will likely require a different navigation strategy, and some densely covered grounds may be entirely unreachable until it s too late.

and transport costs are low, leaving her enough profit to consider leasing more land in the future.

Transport links are terrible; where proper roads do exist, you ll often see police roadblocks capriciously set up to extract bribes from drivers.

Rather than support their own producers, many African governments ease the importation of foreign-grown food.

And the road from lab experiment to treatment is a long one. Sangamo Biosciences has been working to commercialize the earlier zinc finger nuclease technology as a form of medicine for more than a decade.

Currently we have a very active program here on the Jornada Experimental Rangein landscape ecology using unmanned aerial vehicle reconnaissance.

if that was next to a road, even if it cost $163, 000 for those two-and-a half miles of fence,

I want a barbed wire fence between Ted Turner s ranch and our experimental ranch up the road here.

Ultra High Speed Transportation system Today s high speed trains max out around 300 mph. However, vacuum tube transportation systems,

like the one being proposed by ET3, have the potential to exceed 4, 000 mph. Once implemented, how will a technology like this affect the airline industry?

including year-round crop production, protection from weather, support urban food autonomy and reduced transport costs. Scientifically viable in 2023;

land use and transit to create a city that allows residents tolive, work and play in the same space,

And though they look to the previous group for guidance they often have practical considerations that make it hard to adopt a change.

They need to grow the overall electric vehicle market. They need to remove barriers for their competitors so they can join them in moving away from gas-fueled cars.

The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the trade group that represents producers and users of drones and other robotic equipment, predicts that 80%of the commercial market for drones will eventually be for agricultural uses.

The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International has been pressing the FAA to allow limited drone use for some operations like farmers

said Ben Gielow, general counsel of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. As federal regulators struggle to define how drones can be used for commercial purposes,

Personal Rapid transit Systems (PRTS) PRTS like Hyperloop, Skytran, Jpods, and ET3 offer a new dimension in transportation.

They operate above the fray, independent of the frenetic energy of today s highways, airports, train, and bus depots.

Drone Classification Gurus Different laws will apply to different classifications of drone vehicles. 41. Drone Standards Specialists 42.

Over the next 10 years we will see the first wave of autonomous vehicles hit the roads,

with some of the first inroads made by vehicles that deliver packages, groceries, and fast-mail envelopes. 104.

it will create untold opportunity for non-surface based housing and transportation systems, weather control, and other kinds of experimentation. 161.

Reduced friction means that water flows more rapidly across the surface making it difficult for microscopic hitchhikers to grab hold.

#Human-Powered Vehicles Can Drive Meaningful Change (Op-Ed) Mark Archibald professor of mechanical engineering at Grove City College in Pennsylvania

and race vehicles they have designed. The vehicles negotiate tight turns slaloms rough pavement and grocery stops.

Peak speeds are often around 45 mph (72 km h). ) The men and women designing and competing bring new ideas and innovations each year.

None of the vehicles uses a drop of gasoline. They don t use batteries that are charged via the electric grid.

These vehicles are powered by the students legs and sometimes arms. The vehicles demonstrate remarkable engineering design and vehicle performance.

The event Is powered the Human Vehicle Challenge (HPVC) which has been held annually for each of the last 30 years in the United states

and has expanded to Latin america and Pakistan. India will be added later this year. The American Society of Mechanical engineers (ASME) organizes

of which involve vehicles of one type or another. There are races for off-road vehicles Formula 1 race cars and snowmobiles.

There is a competition for high-mileage vehicles which look a lot like human-powered vehicles but run on gasoline and get about 1300 miles (2100 kilometers) per gallon.

Yet the ASME HPVC stands out among all of these competitions in part because of the structure of the competition itself which gives student teams much more design freedom to innovate

and engineer creative solutions. It also stands out because it encouragesâ womenâ a group significantly underrepresented in mechanical engineering to participate

And it stands out because of the social and environmental ramifications of human-powered vehicles which offer very tangible benefits to people in both developed and undeveloped nations.

At about the same time society was recognizing the value of human-powered vehicles as sustainable transportation

and the competition added a second class of vehicles for utilitarian uses. Â For the first few years teams entering that class struggled to develop viable technologies that would lead to high-performance practical vehicles.

By 2011 the utility vehicles had improved to the point that the vehicle classes were combined. Today successful HPVC teams must design

and build vehicles that are both fast and practical for daily transportation. They compete in four events an engineering design event a speed event an innovation event

and an endurance event that demonstrate all aspects of the design. Â All real engineering projects involve constraints.

because a team of students developing a competitive vehicle must learn those skills in order to even get to the competition.

 The vehicles that students design and race are variations on the familiar bicycle. Most are recumbent with riders sitting down in a more aerodynamic position than they would on standard bicycles.

and develop efficient sustainable and practical human-powered vehicles. Â In developed countries those types of vehicles along with more conventional bicycles can be used to relieve traffic congestion improve public health reduce airâ pollutionâ and significantly lower transportation costs.

In developing countries human-powered vehicles can provide affordable basic transportation for personal transport deliveries and even ambulance services.

The HPVC mission encourages engineering students to consider the social environmental and economic benefits of the vehicles they design.

The result is vehicles that are affordable clean and safe. They are faster and more comfortable than standard bicycles and many offer protection from foul weather.

 Some particularly within the United states have questioned the benefits of human-powered vehicles. The individual cost advantages are clear and significant.

Consider a new college graduate who purchases a human-powered vehicle rather than an automobile.

On average he or she will save $5000 to $6000 each year money that can go a long way toward repaying student loans

If 5 percent of the U s. population were to switch from automobiles to human-powered vehicles for most of their trips the aggregate difference would be a reduction of 31 million tons (28 million metric tons) of greenhouse

Additionally in many parts of the world human-powered vehicles are used to meet basic transportation needs.

and transit systems may not exist. Â Students participating in the HPVC are designing transportation solutions for a world faced with economic stress and poverty climate change and strife over energy supplies.

They learn to solve problems technical managerial budgetary and logistic in a structured and rational way.

Nonetheless the participants in the ASME Human-Powered Vehicle Challenge are better for it. They are better engineers.

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