What is an alternative mode of transportation from an automobile

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There’s a vague question that begs an answer. What’s a viable alternative form of transportation from an automobile? The answer is found with an area’s land-use. The four types of land-use: nature, agriculture, transit oriented, and automobile centric land-use design, each type of land-use has a specific type of predominant transportation. Nature uses walking. Agriculture uses animals and tractors. Transit oriented land-use design uses a fixed-rail train or streetcar. Automobile centric land-use design is based upon automobiles, and trucks; serving its needs of transportation. Today’s Western Society is built on the automobile. An alternative form of transportation would have to the capability to provide the functionality of an automobile. Riding a horse in nature would work. Using a helicopter with agriculture would suffice to transport people. Traveling by helicopter in a transit-oriented land-use design would be viable with strict limitation. The same is true for traveling by helicopter in an automobile centric land-use design, it would partially work with limitation but, fails to provide an automobile’s full functionality.

Many people assume an electric powered car is an alternative form of transportation. That perspective is as accurate as referring to a car that’s painted grey, instead of yellow as an alternative form of transportation. A car with a different engine is still a car.

What classifies as an alternative form of transportation? Since the 1940s, prototypes have experimented with flying cars. Today’s advancements in technology have upgraded this classification of vehicle to be known as Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL). These vehicles vary from detachable and foldup wings to the more common current variation of large flying drones with several high-speed blades as propellers. The practicality of hundreds or thousands of such vehicles in a small localized area presents a serious public safety risk. This type of alternative is impractical.

What are viable alternative modes of transportation that could be used in the automobile centric land-use arena; other than a car? In addition to being an impractically slow means of transportation in an automobile centric land-use design, walking and riding bicycles on the freeways are illegal. This type of alternative is impractical. 

Along with figuring out what type of vehicle can provide a new mode of transportation, potential for its infrastructure is imperative to consider. Transportation is the foundation to all urban growth.

In the late 1700s into the early 1800s, the US land-use was predominantly agriculture based. Every family had a garden to feed them. In the late 1800s, trains brought industrialization. This gave rise to transit-oriented land-use development and large city growth. US land-use development became reliant on trains and streetcars as its predominate mode of transportation. In the 1930s, Western society shifted its reliance to the automobile for its primary source of transportation.

The CATTCC blogpost: ‘Impacts of the Automobile Centric Land-use Design’ presents many aspects to the unsustainable nature of the automobile and its negative impacts. The primary concern is that the automobile is unsustainable. To build an entire culture upon an unsustainable foundation is decisively problematic. This increases the social demand for an alternative mode of transportation.

Is it realistic to replace automobiles as Western society’s primary source of transportation? Choosing an alternative form of transportation requires a mode of transportation that exceeds the conveniences cars have. An alternative mode of transportation requires a method of transportation that’s more convenient, faster, less expensive, safer, and more efficient.

Cars have many good attributes. Yet, the travel speed and independence cars provided 125 years ago, have been outpaced by society’s technology.

Conversely, the rail system peaked in 1916, with 254,000 miles of rail, and over 1,000 rail companies. Today there are only 7 class 1 rail carriers and 140,000 miles of track.

All rail infrastructure is the responsibility of private enterprise and remains profitable. US automobile infrastructure has only one owner: the government. Roads, in conjunction with the automobile, are unsustainable; and its infrastructure is not profitable. Unlike rail carrier companies, automobile manufactures hold zero responsibility to their product’s infrastructure use. The burden of infrastructure is a contributing likelihood to the fall of railroad miles and the consequent increase of the automobile’s use.

Are there conceivable practicalities for the advancement of a new mode of transportation? Social demand is the main driver for innovation. The necessity for technological advances poise transportation as the next paradigm for technology. This is not to be confused with the massive amount of giant computer technology companies injecting billions of computer dollars in an attempt to manipulate traffic for the purpose of creating additional revenue streams with the advent of autonomous cars; currently being pursued.

The band-aid methodology to patch a worn-out mode of road and car transportation technology, is merely the status-quo of frustration.



Alternative methodologies for new transportation

The ongoing message from CATTCC is: ‘The future of transportation floats. Its source of motion is with the manipulation of gravity.’

The solution for transportation alternatives is to research brand-new arenas of technology that apply to efficient energy use. To clarify, recommending an efficient energy use for a new mode of transportation has nothing to do with swapping out a car’s engine with a different style of propulsion. Having lots of batteries in a car, it remains a car; running on the same infrastructure.

The only way to improve US infrastructure is with the development of brand-new transportation technology that uses a better infrastructure.

A brand-new mode of transportation requires an operational infrastructure. Dependent upon a new vehicle’s design, its infrastructure varies. Who pays for the new infrastructure; the manufacturer or the government?

Areas to research new transportation technologies

One of the most plausible areas of research is levitation. This arena is wide open for discovery.

Several of the CATTCC blogposts investigate clusters of scientific disciplines with potential for transportation motion.

The blogpost: Levitation, Solve For A+B is one of the detailed analyses of Viktor Grebennikov’s unusual technological claims regarding Cavity Structures Effect (CSE). This is a significant research topic that brings attention to the structure of certain bug wings. One of the subsequent blogposts: Short Distance Design explains: In looking at microscopic portions of bug wings, it displays flattened elongated structures, similar to the elongated sections of a wasps’ nest or beehive. When relating these geometric bug structures to wasps’ nests, there is an association to a relationship with the CSE. The assumption is that this CSE structure produces a frequency. It’s this CSE frequency that creates atmospheric pockets of levitation.

There are many blogposts exploring Grebennikov’s technology claims. ‘Build With Levitation’ speaks about the technological adaptations. Answers are found by asking questions. Is it possible to use Earth’s electrostatic charge, with de Broglie waves, extremely low frequency (ELF)s and Schumann Resonances; as potential methods to affect energy use for transportation devices?

The blogpost: ‘Levitation is Vibrational Mass Accumulation’ is a descriptive analysis that postulates levitation as a product of vibrational mass accumulation. By utilizing Earth’s electromagnetic field, can a vehicle be designed to capture this energy field?

These are some of the questions which have to be asked for answers, in researching brand-new transportation methodologies.