In 1880 Daimler and Benz both independently developed petrol engines. From 1894 Benz Velo begins to sell cars in significant numbers. Henry Ford mass produced the Model T Ford and brought real mobility to the average person. Together the steam and petrol engine technologies surpassed the horse in the middle of the 19th century.
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Trains and cars seek smooth roadbeds. Flying elevates to levels where the mountains and valleys do not interfere.
The first successful sustained powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine were made here by Wilbur and Orville Wright on December 17, 1903. The World Wars increased investment in aviation and led to the discovery of the nessessary technology to develop commercial airliners, such as Boeing. The mean speed speed of a plane is 600km/h, and is sufficient for fast national, international and inter-continental travel. Cars and planes are now suffering from increasingly congested routeways and becoming difficult to manage.
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As income increases and better transport technology becomes available to the world population, the frequency
and distance travelled per person also increases. As our technology breaches the time and money constraint of
travel, openings for new transportation infrastructures become all the more likely.
Perhaps the new technologies such as the Maglev trains, Intelligent Highways, Space Travel and other innovations
will form part of our future infrastructures and will have a role in all our lives.
