List of Proposed Future Transport

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Most transport media in use today are generally fossil fuel powered. The reason for this is the ease of use and the existence of mature technologies harnessing this fuel source. Fossil fuels represent a concentrated, relatively compact source of energy. The drawbacks of such transportation media are that they are heavily polluting, and rely on limited energy sources. Many ideas exist which try to either harness renewable forms of energy, more efficiently use fossil fuel, or use human power, or some hybrid of these, to move people and things. The list below contains some forms of transport not in general use, but considered as possibilities in the future.

  • Air-propelled train (proposed by Ray Bradbury in 1953)
  • Bounce tube pneumatic travel (Proposed by Robert A. Heinlein in 1956)
  • BiModal Glideway (Dual Mode Transportation System) travel (Proposed by William D. Davis, Jr. in 1967)
  • Copter harness (proposed by Robert A. Heinlein in 1954)
  • Dual-mode vehicle
  • Personal air vehicle (Flying car)
  • Intelligent Transportation System
  • Jet pack
  • Launch loop
  • Orbital ring
  • Personal rapid transit
  • Rolling road (proposed by Robert A. Heinlein in 1940)
  • Slidewalk (proposed by Robert A. Heinlein in 1948)
  • Light sail (proposed by Jack Vance in 1962)
  • Space elevator (proposed by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895)
  • Spacecraft propulsion or Space transport
  • Teleportation
  • Vactrain

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