Engineering for the Future of Transportation

Solar-powered airplanes. Electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles. "Super buses" that can travel over the highway in major cities, allowing cars to still pass underneath them to decrease the amount of vehicles on the roadways therefore decreasing the amount of pollution emitted from our individual vehicles. The comeback of the rail system in countries with severe traffic problems. All of these things, with the exception of the railway, sound like something from "Back to the Future." We may as well mention solar powered hover-boards in with that list.

The future of transportation is to reduce emissions and the amount of people in individual vehicles. A major concern is the use of our fossil fuels, as well as the damaging gasses that are released during the combustion of these fuels in our vehicles. Researchers for years have been coming up with ideas to reduce the carbon footprints of these things.

Who benefits from the greening of transportation? Everyone. Jobs are created in this process. Engineers must be employed to calculate every aspect of the process. Strategists must work hand in hand with these engineers to anticipate problems the cities might encounter when working with a public transportation issue. Something like the Super bus, which is being proposed for cities like those in China or Dubai, would change the way roadways and highways are built, as well as clearance for tunnels and bridges. When dealing with public transportation, possible lobbyists would need to be unitized for government grants.

Not only are higher level jobs created, but blue collar jobs as well. Road workers are needed to build actual roadways and industrial workers are needed to build new forms of transportation in the factories. These green jobs are in abundance when new transportation is engineered. As with any other road project, engineers to make the new road ways, road workers, cleanup crews, road painters, engineers that specialize in the making of different modes of transportation, the manufacturers of the production of the new materials for the modes of transportation, all have to work together to make these things for the future of transportation.

And what about the solar powered airplanes that are in the works? Aircraft engineers must work judiciously with the makers of the solar powered panels to be sure there are no glitches in the system and there are enough energy stores in the craft for various lengths of flight. Not only are there environmental issues at stake, but with air travel, lives are at stake, from the first test flight to the first commercial flight with passengers on board. The sheer amount of jobs that all of these green energy projects create is mind blowing, because so many areas are touched in the process of engineering these projects.

The return of the rail system can benefit the rural areas of the country and cut down drastically on fossil fuel usage. This is going back to the basics, the beginnings of transportation in many countries originated with the rail system, before the mass use of vehicles. Many cities in the United States and other countries have already implemented the beginning stages of using the rail system as it was intended to be used when it all began.

Whether we are all going back to the basics or into the future, the goal is to get our transportation system more "green." Trying to decrease the amount of people on the roads and the amount of air travel may be the goal of the future.

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