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Transportation matters. Experts say finding smarter ways to travel will generate more business and improve more people’s quality of life.
More and more people are expected to live in cities in the coming decades. More people equals more traffic jams. More traffic equals more air pollution from vehicle exhaust.
These things are pushing experts to rethink how we use cars to get around town. In the near future, the “automobile will be more of a service than it is today,” says Maggie Hendrie of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. “The car can come pick you up. It will be customized to your preferences. The vehicle is interconnected to an ecosystem of digital devices.”
So-called scramjet technology could make that dream a reality. Scramjet engines could propel aircraft as fast as 15 times the speed of sound, according to NASA. Unlike conventional jet engines, scramjet engines have virtually no moving parts. And unlike rockets, scramjet engines would burn oxygen from the atmosphere instead of having to carry heavy tanks full of oxygen.
Designed by UK-based engineers Reaction Engines Ltd, the Skylon project is a radical idea for future space travel.
A UK-based outfit called Reaction Engines has been working on a passenger aircraft called the A2, which would fly five times the speed of sound.
By the end of 2015, a super-fast Eurostar train called the e320 is expected to rocket people from London – under the English Channel – and on to Brussels and Paris at speeds around 200 mph (320 kilometers per hour.)
Eurostar's new e320 train: Redefining fast —
On Thursday, high-speed train operator Eurostar unveiled the new e320 train, which will go into service next year. The train is named for its max speed -- 320 kph, or 200 mph.
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Eurostar's new e320 train: Redefining fast —
Eurostar plans to add a direct service to Provence next year and a direct route to Amsterdam in 2016.
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Eurostar's new e320 train: Redefining fast —
Italian design studio Pininfarina designed the trains, which have been outfitted with roomier interiors and 20% capacity. There are also more wheelchair accessible seats in the new trains.
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Eurostar's new e320 train: Redefining fast —
There is also a newly designed buffet car. Rounded edges and a cool, white color scheme lend the car an air of "chic", according to Eurostar chief executive Nicolas Petrovic.
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The unveiling coincided with Eurostar's 20-year anniversary.
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During that time, the company has served over 150 million customers.
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Eurostar's new e320 train: Redefining fast —
Eurostar's chief executive, Nicolas Petrovic, is overseeing some grand expansion plans for Eurostar. In the next couple of years, the train company's destination network is planned to extend into Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Eurostar's new e320 train: Redefining fast
That’ll blow your hair back.
In the U.S., private investors have spent $40 million and applied for permits to build a 300-mile-per-hour train that floats above its rails by using the power of magnets.
So-called maglev technology uses powerful, electrically charged magnets to suspend the train midair inside a U-shaped guide rail built on either side of the track. The magnets both lift the train and propel it forward, with the reduced friction being responsible for the train’s super speed.
The first stage of the plan calls for constructing a 38-mile rail line from Baltimore’s airport to downtown Washington within the next 10 years. Backers envision the train moving from D.C. all the way to Manhattan.
Compare that to Amtrak’s Acela Express – a rail service capable of speeds up to 150 mph that shoot riders from New York to Washington in about 96 minutes.
In the Lone Star State, the Texas Central Railway has a plan for a high-speed train that would bridge the 240 miles between Dallas and Houston in 90 minutes. Top speed: around 220 mph.
If all goes as planned, the train would be running by 2020, according to organizers.
Star Trek ‘transporter’
Now, just for fun, let’s consider a few wild ideas.
One’s called “Shweeb.”
It’s a system of personal, pedal-powered monorail pods designed as an alternative form of urban transit.
With Shweeb, pods hang from an elevated track that, theoretically, would stretch to destinations throughout a city.
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With Shweeb, pods hang from an elevated track that, theoretically, would stretch to destinations throughout a city.
Wanna think even FURTHER outside the box? Believe it or not, scientists have been talking about technology that sounds like the transporter from TV’s “Star Trek.”
In 2007, scientists indicated to CNN that someday it might be possible to scan a person using some advanced form of the technology used to perform MRI scans, and transmit that scanned information somewhere else – using normal electrical or sound signals – where it would then be reassembled into an approximation of the original.
But there will always be skeptics, like Valerie Jamieson, physics editor of New Scientist Magazine. “I really don’t think it is ever going to happen,” she says. “Then again, one thing I’ve learned is never to underestimate the ingenuity of physicists, so never say never.”
