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2013
Transportation & Automotive

Superway

As urban density increases, traffic is becoming a problem that requires new and innovative solutions. Adding additional lanes is not sustainable in most cities as spare real estate becomes impossible to find. The Superway is a public transportation system that aims to allow personalized, point-to-point travel while removing congestion from the roads. Additionally,

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Grant Kleinman
San Jose, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 4133
Transportation & Automotive
Jun 10, 2013

Swift Tram: High Speed Automated People Mover

Swift Tram is an emerging rapid transit system that will get people from their starting points to their destinations more enjoyably than any other transit alternative available today. Swift’s automated (driverless) system is elevated, completely avoiding pedestrians, bicyclists, automobiles, and stoplights, and offering views of the world below. System operators can offer scheduled and/or on-demand service,

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Carl Lawrence
Boulder, United States
Votes: 28
Views: 22273
Transportation & Automotive
Jul 1, 2013

Synchronous Machine Having a Flux Exciter Remote from the Rotor Appropriate for an Electric Vehicle Traction Motor

A practical electric vehicle direct drive traction motor must be capable of accelerating into traffic from rest, be able to run at highway speeds, be capable of regenerative breaking and running in reverse. Such a motor must be brushless since using brush slip rings to feed current to a rotor is inefficient and require high maintenance.

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Fred Etcheverry
Santa Cruz, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4979
Transportation & Automotive
Jun 1, 2013

System That Generates Electricity from Shock Absorber Using Piezoelectric Material

This system takes advantage of a piezoelectric transducer that produces electrical energy from mechanical stress. The vibration produced by the automobile is absorbed by the shock absorber and transferred to piezoelectric material. The experimental setup consists of spring based shock absorber, piezoelectric crystal. The piezoelectric material is placed between each coil spring or leaf spring of the shock absorber.

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Kannan Pandi
Sivagangi, India
Votes: 3
Views: 7028
Transportation & Automotive
Apr 15, 2013

System to Discourage Speeding

The problem:

Speeding is a major cause of traffic deaths. According to the U.S. census of 2009, 33,808 traffic fatalities that year were directly attributable to speeding [1]. Some automotive insurances are implementing programs to improve the driving habits of their customers, such as offering discounts for the installation of a data logger in the car.

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Bernhard Adams
Naperville, United States
Votes: 7
Views: 3635
Transportation & Automotive
Jul 2, 2013

Terraspan

TERRASPAN

The need to update our power infrastructure is well documented. How we update it will determine our productivity and energy efficiency for decades to come. It has been many years since any major investment in new infrastructure.

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Vic Kley
Berkeley, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4221
Transportation & Automotive
Jun 18, 2013

TH-Mission, Thumb-Sized Transmission

* The Core Technology of Green Industry Trend

Electric vehicles (EV), thanks to their environment favoring feature, have risen as a next generation vehicle on the market. However, EVs are still in a developing phase since there are many technical problems such as short battery life, recharging infrastructure and lower performance than typical cars.

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Taehwan Ha
Geumchongu, Korea
Votes: 0
Views: 9127
Transportation & Automotive
Jun 28, 2013

The Anti-Collision System for Traction Vehicles

The purpose of the anti-collision system is significant reduction a number of traction vehicles collisions, especially the collisions caused by hitting the rear of the preceding vehicle, which are often caused by the inattention of the driver.

The system is to help the driver by automatically generating warning about a chance of a collision;

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Tomasz Rawinski
Gdansk, Poland
Votes: 0
Views: 6623
Transportation & Automotive
Jun 28, 2013

The Solution to the Gas Turbine Temperature Problem

Abstract of "The Solution to the Gas Turbine Temperature Problem" by Ronald W. Satz in Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 20, pp. 49-63. All previous Brayton cycle engines have utilized a separate compressor and expander and thus have been limited in temperature on the expander side. To overcome this limitation, the author has designed a new,

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Ronald Satz
Penndel, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 4139
Transportation & Automotive
Apr 16, 2013

The Train That Never Stops

It is quite inefficient to have a whole train and all i's passengers stop at every station, even though only a small fraction of passengers enter and leave on each station. Also, express trains have the drawback of not being able to take on and leave passengers on a lot of stations.

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Kenneth Ekman
Lund, Sweden
Votes: 1
Views: 3639
Transportation & Automotive
Jun 29, 2013

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