Futuristic-Transport

Automated Valet Parking - this is a buzzword that appears frequently in the media these days. Press releases from companies promise that we will soon be freed from the task of finding a parking space in a garage. In the future, we will simply leave our cars at the entrance and they will be parked automatically. There are many different technologies competing for this future market. Where do we stand in this evolution? In this article, I will try to give an overview of the current state of the technology.

CargoCap is an innovative system that seeks to reduce the amount of delivery truck traffic in our cities. Fully automated capsules travel through a tunnel system connecting major logistical destinations within cities.{{ double-space-with-newline }}In this article I will present this idea and try to give an outlook on its potential advantages and disadvantages.

Delivery drones have been in the news for the past few years. Now they are starting to be used in the real world. In the Chinese high-tech city of Shenzen, delivery drones are now delivering food.

When you think of modern concepts for transportation, you are probably thinking of the Hyperloop. It promises to connect the centers of major cities much faster than air travel. The idea is to run magnetic levitation trains in a vacuum inside a tube. Many people find this idea fascinating because it sounds like science fiction come true. But is the idea really that new? In this article, I will show you some historical projects that predate the idea of the Hyperloop by more than a hundred years.

If we ever want to colonize the moon or other planets like Mars, we will need to transport huge amounts of material and many colonists to space. Doing this with rockets is costly, inefficient and also dangerous. What if we could lift material and people into space just like an elevator? This is the concept of the Space Elevator. This article summarizes the concept of the Space Elevator and examines what would happen if we really built one.

A colony on Mars has been a dream and a vision for many people. The plans for a trip to Mars that SpaceX and Elon Musk revealed earlier this year have given these dreams a fresh boost. Should Humans ever go to Mars and establish a colony there, they will need a functioning, self-sustaining economy. This economy will need a transport infrastructure to support it. In this article, I lay out how this infrastructure could look like and which forces influence it.