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Rethinking Truck Freight * Worldwide
* Sweden - Volvo's Future Solution' to road transport... Truck LanesGoteborg,Sweden -BigLorryBlog (London,UK) -June 20, 2009: -- Imagine a world where trucks have their own priority 'green lanes' ... And why not says Biglorryblog?: It comes from Volvo Trucks and is part of their crystal ball gazing that's also delivered their 2020 Vision Truck and you can see it on this clip...enjoy the future!
(Video from YouTube, by roadtransport -6 Feb 2009 - Volvo publicity video for their 'Vision 2020' concept truck, designed to drive automatically in convoy -also known as 'platooning')
* USA - ... With Electric Train
A group of Texas researchers would like to resurrect the train as chief freight mover in the U.S.
Texas,USA -Planetary Gear, by Candace Lombardi -June 18, 2009: -- ... The Universal Freight Shuttle is the brainchild of Stephen Roop, assistant director Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), a branch of Texas A&M University's system chain... The automated train, which is designed to accommodate standard shipping containers and trailers, would move forward along a track by linear induction motors powered with electricity... Roop and others at TTI have been working on the concept and design for eight years, keeping in mind not just the technology, but how such an infrastructure would impact federal and state transportation departments, freight companies, shippers, and border security... In addition to providing a cleaner option for shipping freight, the UFS includes a conveyor-like system to screen standard shipping containers at ports and borders while they're in motion, and automatically divert suspect containers to an area for further human inspection... (Credit: Texas Transportation Institute - Artist's rendering of the Universal Freight System loading a standard shipping container on to a train)* USA - Highly Sophisticated Transport: A Concept Truck
HST Concept Truck 1USA -Tachoblog -19 June 2009: -- This is the HST (Highly Sophisticated Transport) designed by Kioko Muthui, a 24-year old Kenyan with a passion for Heavy Commercial Vehicles and Transportation Design who is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Transport Economics....
According to Kioko, ‘the HST is a vision for future European long-distance road haulage. Designed to transport a high volume of widely accepted palletized and containerized cargo units, the concept features a proposed overall length of 29 metres with a proposed maximum gross combination weight (GCW) of 65 tonnes. Although the HST is considerably larger than contemporary articulated trucks, the concept would be no more difficult to manoeuvre.’...
Kioko’s design also states that ‘by means of a comprehensive yet straightforward computer, the HST would be as simple to operate as a modern passenger car. With a 2.90 metres long cab, the concept would provide a working and living environment that would be far more comfortable than contemporary ‘cab over engine’ trucks.’...
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