A friend of mine (thanks Vivek) sent this video out to a few of us, and quite frankly it is one of the coolest transportation concepts I’ve seen in a while. You don’t have to watch all of it to get the basic idea, but I would recommend it. It is a smart transportation system that uses solar power and other less intensive energy strategies to power smaller monorail-like carts that are elevated in the city. There are obviously some problems with this, such as whether cities want to put large foundational posts and rail across nice areas, etc., but the idea is certainly one to think about.
What bothers me is that they probably have systems like this either in place or deep in development stages in other areas of the world. Anyway, it’s a pretty cool idea, and at the very least it can provide an appropriate thought process for other transportation systems that will ease the pain on the environment and on people.
