Driven by a fantastic economic
advancement and a strong will of change, the cities of emerging countries are in
full change. Increasingly high and spread out on the surface, increasingly
populated and complex, they are wearing original profiles and are showing very
new needs of mobility.
At the time when urban transport is becoming a major
concern (congestion of streets, pollution, social inequalities, etc.),
Jean-Christophe Bataille has studied with a prospective approach what the
mobility in the emerging world’s megalopolises of 2050 will
be.
 In
such cities, according to our current schemes, going from A to B would require
to take a lift, a car, a bus or a metro, without mentioning escalators and other
moving pavements. Jean-Christophe’s audacious hypothesis is that in the future
only one vehicle will be necessary: UNIC.
At the basis, a horizontal
as well as vertical network, on which only one type of vehicle moves, with
magnetic suspension. It will then be possible to go from one’s living-room to
one’s office without changing of means of transport. A radical solution for
intermodality. |
