List of proposed future transport

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 (abandoned in 19th century)
  • Bounce tube pneumatic travel (Proposed by Robert A. Heinlein in 1956)
  • Vactrain also known as ET3
• BiModal Glideway (Dual Mode Transportation System) travel (Proposed by William D. Davis, Jr. in 1967)
• TEV Project (proposed by Will Jones in Summer 2012)
• Kwik Lane also spelled as Qwik Lane (proposed by McCrary Personal Transport Systems, LLC in 2011)
• Backpack helicopter
• Dual-mode vehicle
• Hyperloop
• Intelligent Transportation System
• Jet pack
• Launch loop
• Orbital ring
• Personal air vehicle (Flying car)
• 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
• SkyTran

External links

• Global Intelligent Transportation System (proposed by Vladimir Postnikov in 2010)