| For Release: September 25, 1995
Catherine E. Watson
(804) 864-6122
Release No. 95-94
NASA Hosts Workshop to Develop Transportation for the 21st
Century
How will you travel in 2015? NASA Langley Researcher Center is
hosting a workshop to discuss the broad spectrum of transportation
challenges and concepts foreseen within the next 20 years. The
workshop, titled Transportation Beyond 2000: Technologies Needed
for Engineering Design, will be held at the H.J.E. Reid Conference
Center Sept. 26-28 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily. Over 25
presentations will explore the changing environmental, social and
technological factors that will lead to a revolution in the way
people travel in the 21st century.
Workshop attendees from U.S. industry, academia and government
will discuss the types of transportation that will be required in
the next century and the technologies required by those
transportation systems. Topics will include highway design, flying
cars, bullet trains, supersonic aircraft, the use of composite
materials, and fusion powered rockets. According to Robert
McKinley, a NASA aerospace engineer and workshop committee member,
"The coming revolution in travel will encompass all forms of
travel, including land, air, and space vehicles, as well as
electronic virtual travel."
A complete listing of the workshop agenda is available upon
request. The workshop is not open to the public, but media who wish
to attend should contact Catherine Watson at (804) 864-6122.
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