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Eco Factor: Monorail system designed to be powered by solar energy. Iosa Ghini Associati has proposed the Energy Belt, a solar-powered monorail system to connect Bologna’s airport to the city center. The system will run on sculpted lines above...

Eco Factor: Zero emission transportation concept of the future. Working to design a transportation system of the future that goes through main buildings and malls as well as commute ports in the city, industrial designer Nadiya Paramayuda has come.

Eco Factor: Rail car equipped with lithium-ion secondary batteries. Just a day after we reported about Norfolk Southern’s new battery-powered locomotive, news has arrived from Japan that the East Japan Railway Co (JR East) has developed a rail..

Eco Factor: Electric train powered by batteries. While auto manufacturers are looking forward to the best battery technology that can make their upcoming cars fast, silent and zero-emission, Norfolk Southern is taking a technology to locomotives..

EcoFactor: New bicycle taxi service in Montreal. Bicycling not only keeps you in good health but it’s also easy on the environment. Keeping both the benefits in mind, Montreal’s Mayor Gérald Tremblay launched the newest transport service of...

Eco Factor: Electric-Powered transportation vehicle for the future of tourism. Prato is not place that pops comes to mind if you wish to get around in Italy. But it could soon become a model for many other cities across the planet when it..

It’s the age of cool, swanky cars. It’s the age of speed. Most of us like talking about our dream cars—expensive, sleek, suave ones. Also, with the increase in population, production of public transport is going up in leaps and...