New modes of transportation.

Where can we go to implement a new mode of transportation? As this topic is absent from most people’s perspective, it lacks needed conversation. So, to help clarify we’ll ask a question; what are modes of transportation?

There are six modes of transportation:

1.      Walking

2.      Animals

3.      Boats

4.      Trains (200year-old technology)

5.      Automobiles (125year-old technology)

6.      Planes (100year-old technology)

Then, what is a ‘new mode’ of transportation? It is something that society needs and doesn’t have it yet.

When we compare technology of the transportation industry to the rapid growth of the communications and information industries, technology in the transportation industry is at a stand-still. This begs the question: when will advances in the transportation industry happen?

Our technologically advanced modern society requires a new mode of transportation. What is it? Hasn’t arrived yet but, here are the requirements:

•         More convenient than a car
•         Much faster than a car
•         Less expensive than a car
•         Safer than a car
•         Clean energy use

When people hear the word “green” (the new politicized term for ‘sustainability’) it produces an automatic reaction about transportation being electric cars. As the book “Rising From Unsustainable” describes, the automobile is wholly unsustainable: environmentally, economically, and socially. Even though the electric motor is more efficient mechanically, it's still a car and holds all the unsustainable attributes.

A new mode of transportation requires an efficient use of the time and energy. Where do we find this? The only way to discover an efficient and sustainable new mode of transportation is with a perspective change in the search. We have to look where energy use is most efficient: gravity and magnetic levitation. CATTCC is an advanced transportation think tank, its objective is researching gravity to discover a new mode of transportation.