Flying Cars? – Getting closer to a reality
I have always been skeptical about the possibility of flying cars.
Over the years a lot of claims have been made about flying cars as the next revolution that is just around the corner.
I suspect that the announcements often coincide with a need to get more funding.
But some experts in the field have just come out and claimed that commuting in the air might not be that far away.
Professor Andy Dong, Chair of Engineering Innovation at the University of Sydney whose position is sponsored by the Warren Centre has some thoughtful ideas on this issue.
I have done some work for this Warren Centre centre in the field of transport planning and so I began by asking him if the Centre was a forward thinking group.
• What is the Warren Centre?
• Transporting goods not just people
• Were the Jetsons right?
• Flying is one thing, parking is another
• When will this happen?
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Prof Corinne Mulley: How do public transport fares affect travel behaviour?
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Dyan Currie – Chief Planner Brisbane Council – Making Progress at the Planning Institue of Australia
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Cars as art: Grant Sharman, despite a debilitating rugby injury became a painter of classic cars
About Author
David Brown
David Brown started his working life as a Civil Engineer but you would not want him to design a bridge you wanted to safely walk over. His passion was in traffic engineering and transport planning which is all about how we use our transport systems not how we build them. He soon became involved in commenting on issues through all avenues of the media. He is now a motoring and transport journalist. He test drives a new car each week but his ultimate measure of how good a car is relies on his 12 year old and the Hayden Brown “Will you drive me to school in that car” factor.