The
project is based on a company, UTS (United Transport Service),
providing the service of transportation and delivery in a broader
sense - everything from information to smart automatic highly
accessible transport of goods and people. This is realised with
a range of vehicles; from automatic goods "robots" for web-commerce,
to people-carrying-pods using the GPS system and the Internet
for automatic navigation and easy access - like 3D lifts in city
space.
A watchlike UTS communicator, the Mobility Watch, is the link
to the service and it keeps control on your position using GPS.
Instead of navigating through unknown city areas with maps and
signs etc, the system is based on personal "web site" addresses.
Every citizen, shop, company, park etc, has got its own digital
address on the internet, e.g. a web site. This address corresponds
to the dynamic GPS coordinates in the physical world, known by
the UTS mobility watch.
In this way, it is possible to travel direct to anyone wherever
they are, if their "available flag" is on. So, from now on you
will never need to know where destinations are physically situated.
Furthermore you will have full access to information such as travel
time and people availability. As the goods delivery system is
based on the same concept, UTS allows total freedom, accessibility
and mobility within the city - a step towards a "floating" society...
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Giorgio Giugiaro Award for Creative Innovations: 1st prize.
Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, Design for our future selves:
Special prize for design responding to social change - 2nd prize
in the Mobility Competition.
Huge thanks to my sponsors for making the UTS project and the
RCA Show possible: Synapse Modelmaking (Stereolithography models),
Maxon Computer (Cinema 4D Modelling, rendering and animation
package), Ashlar Inc. (Vellum Solids, Modelling package), Triwonder
Signs and 3M.
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Torkel Dohmers 2000
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