IdeaBook Workshop at HUR, Copenhagen, 23. Sep. 2005
Key questions:
"How will you be travelling to work in 20 years time?"
"How will the transport of goods be organized?"
100 theses for Future Mobility:
download the PDF "100 theses for Future Mobility"PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Bus /Metro/Railway
01. Waiting areas with: -workspaces, -relation, -entertainment, -fitness
02. Improved faster and lighter trains with higher frequency
03. Electric bikes served by the train company
04. Vacuum tube trains
05. Automated vehicles with different on board cabins with differentactivities, working car, education car, fitness car
06. Constant speed train
07. Fitness train, work train
08. Train-Dating, meet the lover you like trough a matching system, or your business partner
09. Bike boxes, to get bikes in separate boxes to save space in trains
10. Public transportation with a personal space cabin
11. Quicker switches in terminals
12. A good way to better inform people about delay
13. “Green train” healthy and environmental correct
14. Ski-Cabins in the city like in the Alpesto move
15. Public transportation is dead! Start networking!
16. Vacuum pressure tubes for transportation
17. Change everybody's mind today about public transportation
18. Conversation service in the train. Find someone to talk to a certain topic during your train trip.
19. Fitness in trains. Reduce stress factor while travelling (massage).
AIRCRAFT
20. Zero gravity air travel system, train in the air not using any energy
21. Business class for everyone
22. Helium balloon travel
23. To reduce stress while travelling passengers can enter a cabin container in the terminal
SHIP
24.ferry boats are offering pull-service to freight ships
25.Trade exhibition ships performing at harbour cities
26.transport containers for underwater transport
CAR
27. Nano-technology for self-cleaning cars to save time & costs
28. Hydrogen car, you can produce your energy from your car
29. GPS space to give info where you have parked your car
30. Maximize utilities of cars, how to use the vehicles more efficient
31. Taxis for everyone! No own cars
32. The right to hitch hike with every one
33. Individual cars become common goods -Let the car key inside!
34. Black boxes to change identities on the shared car (makes it individual)
35. Car free cities, with a computerized system for "transport on demand". Eachhouseholdsrequirements are in the database in order to function when you call for transport by using-present system oftaxis, buses,or-in future,using (today unknown) mobile units
36. Sound cancellation tire
37. Noise absorbing asphalt
38. Melody making tires
39. Use cars to generate energy for houses
40. Multifunctional fuel
41. Solar car. Creates energy while parking
42. "Electronic combined car trains" on motorways. You get connected to the car in front of you and create a "train" up to 20-30 cars! Saves fuel, reduce stress, gives comfort a.s.o.
43. Crossing water with a camper mobile
TRUCKS
44. Extended truck-length from present 15-18 meters up to 40-50 m, reduce the number of long distance truck on our roadsand in the same time saves fuel. (cost/t on km)FREIGHT
45. Automated zeppelins for freight
46. Transport of goods: produce the goods in factories on the water
47. Following goods with a chip to inform the customer when it`ll arrive
48. Private freight central -(if you drive somewhere, take a parcel for somebody with you.
BIKING
49. Tax reduction for each kilometre you spend on bike
50. Free sharing bike in the cities with luggage box
51. Air propeller on bicycle for electricity
52. Reloading battery when bike pedals are used
53. Reduce your taxes through bicycle use!WALKING
54. Public Transportation with automotive walkways
55. Produce your own energy by moving (for the cell phone)
56. Intelligent elevator-knows where you are usually going
57. Super efficient shoes, takes 5 steps at one step
58. New ways of moving: Why don´t we walk, sledge, ski, skate, sail or drift more in the cities?
59. Better possibilities for pedestrians
60. Pedestrian sidewalk with travel lanes
61. Asphalt generates energy, through walking on it
62. Electricity generating shoesNO-MOBILITY
63. “Mind travelling”, change in the needs of transportation, travelin the imagination
64. Less transport, think LOCAL -local production
IT –MOBILITY
65. Commuting information, -24 hour service
66. Travel guide-system : virtual little „maid“ tells you where to go
67. World travelling report, to get info while you travel, automatically guided through a blue tooth
68. Online working possible everywhere
69. Networking technology in open cabins to improve communication
70. Sharing of music/movie/personal files with those in plane/train/bus/ferry100
INFRASTRUCTURE
71. Better spatial planning to connect also people outside the metropoles
72. Standardized infrastructure (EU)
73. “All-weather Terminal”, for combining goods, sea, road and rail, independent of the weather.
74. Universal travel-symbol dictionary, point book for symbols
75. Transportation hubs must contain more than only of transport. For example child care, bank office, meeting facilities, offices that can be used, supermarket, dentist etc. Saves time and traffic.
MOBILITY FOR ALL
76. How to accommodate seniors as easy as for juniors
77. Small wheelchairs (standard) with high mobility
78. Step free solution from home to work or visit place, how we build our community, step free access for people in town
79. How can we use blue tooth to help people?
ENERGY
80. Unlimited geographical hydrogen energy
81. Energy from the earth rotation
82. More environmental, friendly energy sources in transportation
83. Muscle powered engines through cloning
84. Power generating “Super Shoes”
SWITCHING TRAFFIC
85. Improve connection between private cars and public transportation
86. In-speed transfer between transportation systems
87. Traffic terminals, changing between different transportation systems
88. Develop the Park and Ride system! How to move from one transportmode to another?
89. Decentralised traffic change areas (not in the city centre)
MIXED IDEAS
90. Catapult transport
91. Traffic noise-killing machine
92. Re-introducing glamour (adventure) in travelling
93. The DHL-sphere, people transported like packages by train or car with a personal barcode
94. Making travel stress-less
95. Enhance passengers sense of security while travelling
96. Instant transfer, you step in another world in 10 seconds (CPH -Rio)
97. More convenient travelling, buy something to eat, drink, read
98. Sleep when you travel, inducing travellers to sleep meanwhile journey
99. Ice-or sledge transportation over the North pole
100. Anti-gravity skateboards
We are very thankful to all participants of that expert-discussion ! Tak, Danke, Tack,...
