Transportation within a habitiat Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Transportation within a habitiat
# 3039 bytango_dancer@... on July 5, 2002, 8:16 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
So let's say we're designing a habitat for 10,000+ people and there
will be cities, town and/or villages at different locations
throughout the structure.
have trouble seeing freeways and a bunch of SUVs up there :)
But, ... will we be able to do away with individual vehicles
completely? Will we be able to minimize the use of our precious land
area that is devoted to roads? Can a society function without
streets but with an extensive "underground" subway system in their
place?
I used to think we could eliminate many of the streets in a habitat
and replace them with wide paths, but then I started to think about
it a little more and came up with some issues that have prompted me
to write to this forum looking for feedback.
How do we remove garbage from individual residences? How do we make
furniture deliveries, construction equipment movement and material
deliveries, get fire protection and the firefighters to a residence
in distress, ambulance services, etc?
We could have such dedicated vehicles plying the maglev subway
tracks and coming only so far as the nearest subway terminal and
then by foot to the location. We could use fuel cell engines on "the
surface" and restrict such vehicles to official use only . . . but
this requires an extensive road network to be able to accomodate the
vehicles. We could have air services for the life and death police,
fire and ambulance services but what of the other transportation
services required?
I think it would make the whole endeavor of having thousands to
millions of people living in a habitat a much more do-able
proposition if we didn't have to recreate the whole automobile
industry up in orbit. I think an extensive subway system is the way
to go but am curious about people's thoughts about the "last mile"
issue?