MEANS OF TRANSPORT OF THE FUTURE

The need to reduce pollution and the use of private vehicles in large cities is leading to the adoption of new technological tools that advocate an integral management of mobility.

Although transport systems have evolved greatly over the past 30 years, mobility in large cities is not very different. The private vehicle is still the most used medium and because the traffic jams continue to be part of everyday life.

The application of technology to passenger transport has advanced a lot in a short time, but it seems that these advances will become obsolete with those that are approaching and that have already begun to show, although, for the moment, only they deal with projects to develop.

NEW MEANS OF TRANSPORT IN THE FUTURE

-HYPERLOOP

The new train consists of a tube that contains air at a low pressure through which some capsules circulate on a cushion of air from the nose to the tail of the capsule. The compressor provides levitation and, to a lesser degree, propulsion. The set can have two different types of capsules, some with capacity for 28 passengers and others capable of carrying three vehicles, at a speed that can reach 1,200 kilometers per hour. You can travel between Madrid and Barcelona in 35 minutes. Defined as a cheap and effective transport, its construction is no longer as economical, as it is an investment of more than 7,000 million euros for a line of more than 550 kilometers.  

-CLIP- AIR

Clip-Air has been presented, a project that consists in the development of a type of aircraft that will function as a modular aircraft for passengers and cargo. For this, there are three capsules that can be attached under an aircraft or installed on rail cars, allowing a flexible way from one form of transport to another. One step in favor of the much needed interoperability.

The objective is none other than to provide air transport with railway flexibility, in addition to improving the occupancy rate. The passengers would embark in a capsule in a railway or maritime station, and after arriving at an airport, they would take off without moving from their seat, by hooking those modules to a flying wing.

-THE HAMN

The Hamn is an autonomous minibus with capacity for 12 people and an autonomy of about 200 kilometers.

This project expects to have the first test vehicles in different circulation scenarios. They use artificial intelligence technology, which has artificial vision, speech recognition ... But this is not the only electric vehicle of these characteristics, that is, without being handled by a physical driver inside, and that there is a wide range of companies that are experimenting with the same idea, for example, the Chinese search engine Baidu, or the case of the Olli minibus, printed with a 3D printer, and that can also transport twelve people, and that moves at a slower speed at 12 kilometers per hour. But these two examples are but the tip of the iceberg of what is underway in this field.

-VAHANA AIRBUS

A vehicle called Vahana has been designed, which is presented as one of the alternatives to solve the problems that originate in the cities the agglomerations of vehicles at certain times, the traffic jams. It is an autonomous flying vehicle, which can serve both passengers and cargo. This is the challenge that must be solved: Achieve autonomous driving is perfectly established and thus avoid possible accidents in the sky. The system would operate as if it were a heliport, located in the most sensitive areas of the city.