Rethinking Transportation

A radical change in the way people move around could make life more livable.

Thinking only for myself, three things I look for in transportation are speed, comfort, and privacy. I can imagine a transportation system that provide all three.

Such a system would consist of detachable modules that could also be coupled together when desired. A module would contain a comfortable seat and spaces for stashing things you want to take with you. It would have to work in both urban and rural environments.

For urban environments, modules would be aggregated into trains, operating along dedicated tracks. If you want to travel, you summon a shuttle that moves your module to a track where it can be coupled with other modules that are then moved as a group.

For rural environments,including private homes, there would be self-powered carriages upon which a module cold be mounted. The carriage could move the module over trackless areas, even including rough dirt roads.