The Future of Sustainable Transportation • Anita Sengupta • GOTO 2020

This presentation was recorded at GOTOpia November 2020. #GOTOcon #GOTOpia http://gotopia.eu Anita Sengupta - Rocket Scientist, Professor of Astronautics and Space Technology University of Southern CA, CEO & Founder of Hydroplane @spacegirl2020 ABSTRACT In the global marketplace that transfers knowledge at the speed of light, we have a massive time delay that is modern transportation methods. We each spend up to 30% of our lives commuting on congested freeways, airports, and train stations. We put green-house gases into the atmosphere and change our climate with global consequences to health, habitat loss, and our economic future. On the cargo front this results in lost revenue, productivity, with no clear path to address the growing demands of the global market place. What if we could disrupt transportation, an aging and non-agile industry which has not seen a new mode in over 100 years. By introducing game changing technologies we can increase capacity, enhance energy efficiency, and shrink our carbon foot print. Dr. Sengupta will discuss how space-age tech coupled to the VC funded innovation environment are enabling the revolution in green transportation. She will share her real-world engineering projects from her work developing the world’s first Hyperloop in Las Vegas Nevada, to autonomous VTOL air taxis her new company is designing in Detroit Michigan [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:17 Understanding your place in the universe 05:00 We can build the future we imagine 06:12 Technology has changed the world 11:44 What is the near future? 11:54 The Hyperloop 16:43 AI enabling tech for mass transit 19:23 Air travel 21:12 Urban transport re-envisioned 24:55 Smart grid 25:35 Space flight 28:49 Actual flight on Mars 29:38 VTOL aircraft coming soon 31:16 Would you want to live on Mars? 31:25 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotopia.eu/november-2020/sessions/1638/the-future-of-sustainable-transportation RECOMMENDED BOOKS Ioannis Kolaxis • 101 Green Software • https://www.kolaxis.dev/book-green-software Mehdi Khosrow-Pour • Green Computing Strategies for Competitive Advantage and Business Sustainability • https://amzn.to/2YXbI7j Lässig, Kersting & Morik • Computational Sustainability • https://amzn.to/3APBW8r Zbigniew H. Gontar • Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization • https://amzn.to/3pkRVsS Katsoni & Segarra-Oña • Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability • https://amzn.to/2YXfPQM Carola Lilienthal • Sustainable Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3yFXxoS https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Transportation #Sustainability #SustainableTransportation #Green #GreenEnergy #GreenTransportation #Mars #VTOL #Hyperloop #MarsRover #Hydroplane #NASA #Futurology #AI Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1