"This presents a rather generous view of future humanity but doesn't seem to consider the popularity and convenience of the very transportation breakthroughs [moving sidewalks, express trains, coaches] forecast elsewhere in the article," says Mr Tucker.
Their progress so far has been hailed in some quarters as a new dawn for aviation, but the team are quick to emphasise that the plane is less a breakthrough in transportation – it can only hold one person, after all – than a step forward for clean technology.
The electric doubledecker bus represents a technology breakthrough in public transportation, said Isbrand Ho, managing director of BYD Auto Europe.
But it was a rival steamer, the British-built Great Western, which made the crossing 74 times — the Sirius made only two — that achieved the real breakthrough in ocean transportation.
In this sense, intelligent transportation systems are a major breakthrough since they alleviate the need for devices that can be prohibitively costly or simply unpractical to implement.
The switch over from pH stabilisation using MDEA to film forming corrosion inhibitors (FFCI) may be beneficial following formation water breakthrough during hydrocarbon transportation and processing to prevent scaling at elevated pH and to extend the operational lifespan of a field.
An important breakthrough in gas-transportation technology occurred in 1890 with the invention of leakproof pipeline coupling.
This technology is very promising for a transportation assay of functional transporter proteins at the single-molecule level, which will be a significant breakthrough in the study of transporters.
Slowing growth in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) will be necessary for reducing transportation GHG emissions, even with major breakthroughs in vehicle technologies and low-carbon fuels (Winkelman et al., 2009).
However, the use of lignocellulosic ethanol as a viable alternative to petroleum-based transportation fuels largely depends on plant biotechnology breakthroughs.
