Includes descriptions and illustrations of more than 65 innovative, emerging, electric urban transportation technologies from around the world. Some are operational. Others are under development or conceptual ...

The ultimate public transport system for big cities

Case Stories: ** Seattle ** Los Angeles ** Denmark ** The System (RUF = Rapid Urban Flexible) RUF combines the best of cars with the best of trains Invented by Palle R Jensen The Individual Vehicle The ruf is an electric/hybrid car without congestion and pollution problems. Design: Morten Bartholdy, Vinther Grafik The Collective Vehicle The maxi-ruf is a very attractive bus. It offers ...

SkyTran: The privacy, convenience, and speed of a car without traffic and parking hassles. Innovative, fast, nonstop public transit that curbs air pollution, reduces drunk driving, and provides unsurpassed safety.

FUTREX is developing the innovative System 21 elevated monobeam transit technology for worldwide commericialization ...

06: The Train You're Never Late For By PETER RICHMOND Photograph by Julius Rooymans Doug Malewicki envisions a future full of unusual things. Like a way of liberating American cities from their clogged-artery highways using a lacework of elevated rails that would carry thousands of commuters in individual pods coasting silently above the sidewalks at 100 miles per hour. Like a 40-foot-high ...