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2012
Transportation

ATC (Automatic Traffic Control)

Here in Egypt, traffic jams are a major problem. ATC offers a solution for this problem. It looks into the problem from a different perspective. The idea is to install an electronic system on each vehicle. This system will detect illegal movement (cross lanes frequency), illegal driving direction, breaking traffic lights, fast acceleration, illegal parking,

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Ahmed Saber
Giza, Egypt
Votes: 0
Views: 5792
Transportation
Jun 30, 2012

Auto Safety Bumpers

I have three US patents for different embodiments of an auto safety bumper invention.

Cars must become smaller and lighter to meet government CAFE rules. Today, small cars are less safe in collisions than larger cars. The small cars don't have large crumple zones. In fact,

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Stephen Shoap
Wakefield, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4662
Transportation
Jun 6, 2012

AutoMate Transportation System

The Automate system aims to provide a sustainable transportation solution for our cities. Many concepts try to overcome the ever growing losses due to traffic jams, pollution and traffic accidents. AutoMate provides an innovative system design which aims to help us all save lives, time and keep our planet a greener place.

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Netanel Goldberg
Zichron Yaakov, Israel
Votes: 18
Views: 6041
Transportation
Apr 7, 2012

Automated Traffic Light

The idea is simple: to control the traffic by having a sensor on each car that allows the traffic control infrastructure to detect vehicles on the road.

Such is the case of traffic lights with this technology.

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Vicente Miranda
Schenectady, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4291
Transportation
May 15, 2012

Automobile of the Future - Next Million Miles Free!

The huge amount of smoke the Internal Combustion Engine of an automobile (truck/car/bus) bellows, versus the clean ride we all enjoy on a bicycle, made me think of a cleaner source of energy to run the automobile which is not dependent on any sort of crude, not even on the Renewable Energy sources of the Sun, Hydro,

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Nakul Jain
New Delhi, India
Votes: 0
Views: 5107
Transportation
Jun 27, 2012

AutoRail

Individual Freedom / Community Advantage

This proposal is primarily about extending the range of your electric car!

System designed for Electric Vehicles that can travel on Rail AND... independently on Streets.

You may have seen CSX Maintenance trucks that ride on rails, as well as streets... this goes way beyond that!

Electric vehicles have limited range today,

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Dan O'neill
Smyrna, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 5296
Transportation
Apr 23, 2012

AWD Butterfly

The AWD Butterfly has so much potential for its future. The car leans like a bike, changes wheelbase, changes into positive and negative camber,

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Patrick Malone
Anaheim, United States
Votes: 12
Views: 15301
Transportation
May 31, 2012

Bicycle Wind Tube

Most people who have ridden bicycles can attest that air resistance is the main barrier to achieving a desirable average speed.

Alternatively, many science-minded people who are familiar with the Mythbusters television show may recall that bicycles can draft trucks (of rectangular rear end) at speeds which are nearly impossible to attain with human power alone.

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Brian Chow
Arcadia, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 5017
Transportation
Jun 30, 2012

BiModal Glideway

The BiModal Glideway (BMG) project is a new incarnation of the 60 year old possibility of bimodal transportation. Bimodal transportation involves vehicles that can operate on conventional streets and highways and on separated guideways. In the former they are driver controlled; in the latter they are system controlled and travel without driver intervention.

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William Davis
Rolling Hills Estates, United States
Votes: 32
Views: 12916
Transportation
May 20, 2012

Build and Test Non-Mag Guideway System

To design and build an alternative non-petroleum transit system to shuttle both personal and private automobiles on existing interstate highways. The goal is to build a test site for both simulated static test and real time testing of a frictionless guide-way track. Use clean technologies in a non-mag platform setting to keep costs low.

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Frank Laundry
Bradford, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4121
Transportation
Jul 1, 2012

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