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Transportation Beyond 2000: Technologies Needed for Engineering DesignThe purpose of the workshop was to acquaint the staff of the NASA Langley Research Center with the broad spectrum of transportation challenges and concepts foreseen within the next 20 years. The hope is that material presented at the workshop and contained in this document will stimulate innovative high-payoff research directed towards the efficiency of future transportation systems. The workshop included five sessions designed to stress the factors that will lead to a revolution in the way we will travel in the 21st century. The first session provides the historical background and a general perspective for future transportation, including emerging transportation alternatives such as working at a distance. Personal travel is the subject of Session Two. The third session looks at mass transportation, including advanced rail vehicles, advanced commuter aircraft, and advanced transport aircraft. The fourth session addresses some of the technologies required for the above revolutionary transportation systems to evolve. The workshop concluded with a wrap-up panel discussion, Session Five. The topics presented herein all have viable technical components and are at a stage in their development that, with sufficient engineering research, one or more of these could make a significant impact on transportation and our social structure.
Document ID
19960023610
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Huebner, Lawrence D.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Asbury, Scott C.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Lamar, John E.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
McKinley, Robert E., Jr.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Scott, Robert C.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Small, William J.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Torres, Abel O.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
February 1, 1996
Subject Category
Aeronautics (General)
Report/Patent Number
NASA-CP-10184-Pt-1
NAS 1.55:10184-Pt-1
Accession Number
96N26302
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 282-10-01-01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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