Green Energy-Powered Dirigible Transportation
The project is an 18-month feasibility study of key elements of a transportation system to reduce truck and other vehicle use of highways, using an airship approach while utilizing only "green" energy sources, especially microwave beamed power transmission to the vehicle.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Program Information: Exploratory Advanced Research, Surface Transportation Research, Trans Enabling Technologies Team
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $2170000
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Sponsor Organizations:
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Project Managers:
Lee, Kunik
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Principal Investigators:
Choi, Sang
- Start Date: 20100930
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20120930
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Airships; Electric vehicles; Energy conservation; Green; Microwave devices; Renewable energy sources; Truck traffic
- Subject Areas: Energy; Highways;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01573552
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Department of Transportation
- Files: RIP, USDOT
- Created Date: Aug 24 2015 4:41PM