Through a tube from city to city at the speed of sound, or travelling in interconnected, driverless cars – is this what transport will look like in the future? Trade visitors will be able to find the answers to these and other questions from September 20 to 23 at InnoTrans 2016. Creative visionaries and companies from Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belarus and the USA, as well as other countries, will be presenting their futuristic ideas at the Future Mobility Park and in the display halls. The Future Mobility Park is located in the passageway between halls 20 and 21.
Three companies will be presenting Hyperloop
Among the exhibitors are the American visionaries from Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (Future Mobility Park) and Hyperloop One (hall 3.2) as well as TransPod from Canada (hall 2.2). They will all be presenting their Hyperloop concepts. This transport system would carry passengers at over 750 miles per hour through a tube between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It is the brainchild of Elon Musk, who has called upon developers around the world to make his Hyperloop concept reality. Papers on this subject will also be presented at the Speakers‘ Corner by Hyperloop One and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies.
Deutsche Bahn is also showing interest in this high-speed technology. At this stage the company is working together with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies on current transport systems. At the present time projected solutions are being developed for transport systems without windows or running mainly in tunnels. Digital windows would be used to display landscapes, films or other visual passenger information.
Driverless vehicles and interconnection are the new trends
BestMile from Switzerland is interconnecting automated vehicles with the aid of some innovative algorithms. The manufacturer explains that this system would ensure the effective interaction between planning, the deployment of vehicles, the planning of itineraries and battery charging. MOON, a mobility service that operates in the same way as car sharing, is being presented by the mobility design team from the Potsdam Technical College. This driverless and sustainable ride-sharing technology should be available to customers as early as 2021.
NEXT Future Transportation is providing trade visitors with details about a road transport system similar to a bus service that is based on electrically powered modular vehicles. Trade visitors will be able to inspect two models at the trade fair. The environmental technology specialist Walter Back Büro für Umwelttechnik from Germany is providing insights into the silent and zero-emissions multi-purpose Type 6 track. SkyWay from Belarus is conducting research into innovative travel ways. It is focusing on raised carriageways made of pre-stressed concrete, from which mass transit passenger cabins would be suspended, enabling trains to travel at similar speeds to those of aircraft.
