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2011
Transportation

Solar Powered Warning Beacon

We're attempting to fill the need to illuminate containers dropped onto flatbeds being driven on highways throughout the world without any lights. Presently all trailers have lights on their top perimeters making them visible, but no such lighting exists on containers. This invention addresses that and may be useful in other areas as well.

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Lee Wainwright
Bethlehem, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 4396
Transportation
Jun 26, 2011

SOLO Single Seat Vehicle

The Solo is a high performance, single seat vehicle designed to explore new ideas in personal transportation. It is the product of many years of experience in the high-performance automotive, aircraft and composite materials industries. The Solo is ultra-light, highly fuel efficient and offers the performance,

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William Engwer
Marietta, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 5942
Transportation
Jun 29, 2011

Solution to Lane Merging Problem

ROAD CONSTRUCTION...... ROAD CONSTRUCTION..... ROAD CONSTRUCTION....

Do these words frustrate you? It frustrates all of us because ROAD CONSTRUCTION means traffic blockage and waste of time, gas and money.

Problem:

During road construction one lane is closed and its traffic has to merge with the other open lane. This causes long traffic blockages and traffic moving inch by inch.

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Neil Christian
Mississauga, Canada
Votes: 0
Views: 3926
Transportation
Jun 29, 2011

Supercritical Combustion

Supercritical combustion is a new concept of combustion technology aiming at reducing the fuel consumption and pollutant emission levels of a diesel engine. Supercritical combustion is a controlled detonation technique in which the fuel will be introduced into the combustion chamber in its supercritical state,

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Nagendra Ch
Chennai, India
Votes: 0
Views: 10569
Transportation
May 25, 2011

The Cylinthruston is the Solution

The Cylinthruston is the solution!

The January 31 – February 2, 2011 North American winter storm, called the 2011 Groundhog Day Blizzard, was a powerful and historic winter storm, situated around the US and Canadian holiday Groundhog Day. American Midwest, New England, as well as, many other areas saw numerous power outages, flight cancellations, airport closures, road closures,

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Donald White
Oaklawn, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4099
Transportation
Jun 6, 2011

The Explorer (Backpack Gyrocopter)

Overview: The Explorer is a backpack gyrocopter and the gateway to safe reliable personal and utility flight. Most commuters going anywhere typically drive alone. This is taking a toll on our environment, road systems, and current economics. If those that were able to would fly to their destinations it would not only reduce emissions,

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Bradley Lewis
Laverkin, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 19058
Transportation
Jun 13, 2011

The Future of Transportation: Dirigibles

The visual impact of one of today's small advertising blimps is awesome. The grandeur of a dirigible of yesteryear is legendary. But even more impressive is the raw lifting power of a gigantic lighter-than-air craft

The lifting power of a dirigible increases as the cube of its size.

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Fm Maish
Boulder, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 26218
Transportation
Jun 26, 2011

The Great Big Gun

The "Great Big Gun" is a heavy lift orbital launch system designed to "shoot" large payloads to LEO. This is the "railroad" to space designed to provide low cost delivery of materials and equipment into orbit.

Consisting of a gigantic floating catamaran supporting a 50 foot diameter cast concrete electrical mortar,

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George Onik
Maimi Beach, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 4276
Transportation
Jun 30, 2011

The Type II

Concept

The Type II is a small leaning vehicle that combines the maneuverability of a motorcycle with the safety and stability of a car. It employs an innovative direct-link leaning mechanism that allows it to shift its center of gravity into a turn.

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Tim Huntzinger
San Marcos, United States
Votes: 6
Views: 5723
Transportation
Jul 1, 2011

The VTOL Pulsed Turbine Transvector Jet Concept

The Pulsed Turbine Transvector Jet Propulsion concept is a recently developed adaptation to the Pulsed Turbine Rotor Engine and The Pulsed Turbine Jet Propulsion concept that was introduced to the 2008 Create the Future Design Contest.

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David Haskins
San Diego, United States
Votes: 23
Views: 7497
Transportation
Apr 21, 2011

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