Transport

Questioning how the latest research projects will help our world to face the future, this book which is part of a series, focusses on the latest research by scientists and engineers to solve the problems associated with modern travel - safety, energy consumption, efficiency, traffic congestion and pollution. It even demonstrates how vehicles can be designed with recycling in mind.;Scientists and engineers have given birth to completely new types of vehicles and transport systems this century such as jet engines, hovercraft, hydrofoils, supersonic airliners and space shuttles. Fast international travel has changed the way some people work, created new types of jobs and given many people the opportunity to take holidays abroad.;Tomorrow's transportation systems will have to use safer vehicles that consume less energy to manufacture, work more efficiently, burn less fuel and produce less pollution. When they reach the end of their useful life, they must be easier to recycle. All these factors will shape the vehicles we travel in during the next century. This book looks at the progress being made in these fields and further ahead to airliners flying at five times the speed of sound, spaceplanes, passenger-carrying Tiltrotors, the return of commercial sailing ships and airships, hydrogen powered cars and high-speed maglev trains 'flying' as fast as an aeroplane.