Posts Tagged with "Transportation"
November 8, 2007
Back in September, we posted Bike dispensers, an article about convenient and easy to use bike rental services. Citywide bike rental services promote eco-friendly initiatives while providing practical and cost effective transportation to citizens. Bicing is another company we found located in Barcelona that allows residents to access bikes for inner city transportation from over [...]

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October 28, 2007
Ben Missler from Mass Tram America envisions this large-scale elevated monorail as the future of public transportation. The tramcars are fabricated from salvaged airplane fuselages, and once attached to the rail system are propelled by motorized wheels that draw their power from solar panels or wind turbines attached to support towers.
Does this seem unrealistic? Missler [...]

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October 23, 2007
Hangzhou Bay Bridge is an S-shaped stayed-cable bridge that links Jiaxing, a city just south of Shanghai to Cixi, a port city close to Ningbo. At 36 kilometers in length, the bridge features six lanes in both directions and reduces the travel distance between Shanghai and Ningbo by 120 km. The project, spearheaded by Chief [...]

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October 16, 2007
The PUYO is Honda’s latest environmentally friendly concept car. Groundbreaking in efficiency and powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology, this aesthetically unique vehicle will officially debut this month at the Tokyo Motor Show.

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October 14, 2007
In the minds of many blimps are a thing of the past, however, for Tino Schaedler and Michael J. Brown, they are the future of luxury air-travel. Cue the Stratocrusier, an eye catching, futuristic and multi-faceted “lifestyle zeppelin” currently in concept form. (Zeppelins are rigid airships that were first developed in the early 20th [...]

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September 16, 2007
The company is Velib‘. Its simple, creative and expandable business model adds utility to any metropolitan area. Instead of taking a cab, bus or car, users of the service rent a bike from one of the multiple bike racks located throughout the city, then cycle to wherever they need to go. When the user is [...]

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