This article considers modern and future transportation modes and their developing technology.

Transportation Modes

Land

Human-powered

Animal-powered

Road

Rail

Water

Ships are the most important component for global freight traffic. They are able to transport large amounts of goods at low cost. Transportation is relatively eco-friendly, but slower than rail-, road- or airtransport. While getting absolutely vital for global trading, they became more and more unimportant for passenger transport over the last century. Today, passenger transport via cruiseship is the appreciable way for long distances, according to the motto "The journey is the destination", as it is the slowest modern transportation method.

Air

Transportation by plane is fast, but unecological and extremely expensive. For freight transport it is mainly used for light and valuable goods, which have to be delivered very quickly.

Space

Projects

Sustainability

ec2go

ec2go is an e-CarSharing concept, designed by the FB5 at the FH Aachen.

autonomous driving

Google Driverless Car

Future Truck

The Future Truck concept was presented by Mercedes-Benz at the "IAA Nutzfahrzeuge 2014". It is planned to be ready for mass production in 2025.

See also

The EV revolution a brilliant blog by Peter Sinclair on Climate Crocks.

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