The Centre for Transport Studies is pleased to welcome
Mr Dave Wetzel, Mr Noel Hodson and Professor Fred Taylor
(THE TRANSPORT INTERNET(tm) & FOODTUBES)
to lead a seminar entitled
The Transport Internet & Foodtubes- Electric cargo-capsule pipelines
to be held
Wednesday 3rd December 2014 @ 16:00
Please join us for presentation and discussion at
Room 307, Skempton (Civil Eng.) Building, Imperial College London
Abstract
THE TRANSPORT INTERNET & FOODTUBES
Runner-up in the St Andrews Prize for the Environment, 2008.
FOODTUBES will transport food and household goods, from primary production up to retailing, in lightweight, 1 meter x 2 meter, cargo-capsules, via underground pipelines. Currently, the fuel or energy for HGVs, vans and rail transport is used 92% to move the vehicles and only 8% to move the goods. Why pipelines? Because, for example, we daily transport water, which is 180 times the weight of our food, invisibly and with little pollution - through pipelines. Similarly, very large quantities of oil and gas are safely and cheaply transported internationally. Most household goods could also be sent by pipeline. 25% to 40% of freight vehicles carry food. FOODTUBES hopes to create a major civil-engineering, specialised export industry, creating thousands of sustainable jobs. The joint inventors are Noel Hodson & Fred Taylor.
About the Speakers
Dave Wetzel has considerable experience at policy level for introducing innovatory policies in Local government and the public sector. He is an expert in the fields of Transport, Public Finance and Taxation, Economic Land Programmes. He has experience in the public and private sectors (Public transport, aviation and logistics). He is a member of Trade Union, Co-op and Labour Movement activist. He advocates equal opportunities, including equal access to natural resources. Also, he was a former Vice-Chair Transport for London (2000 to 2008). He is the chair for The Professional Land Reform Group and president of Labour Land Campaign.
Noel Hodson advised 1,500 clients on tax, then 3,000 clients to expand businesses - before getting the "Green" urge & joining the pioneers of teleworking in 1987. He worked in Europe & the USA with major employers including The World Bank and World Health Organisation; writing BT's Economics of Telework & Teleworking Explained (Wiley & Sons), with emphasis on traffic reduction. From 2000 he turned to reducing freight transport and conceived The Foodtubes Project.
Joint inventor Fred Taylor will respond to technology questions:
Fred Taylor (Halley Professor of Physics ) was head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics at Oxford for 21 years from 1979 and currently hold the Halley Chair in Oxford Physics and a Professorial Fellowship at Jesus College. Before that he was for ten years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where he still hold a Distinguished Visiting Scientist position. He has published just under 300 refereed scientific papers and 10 books, the latest of which is 'The Scientific Exploration of Mars' (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
The Following CTS Seminar
Professor Roger Mackett and Dr Helena Titheridge from University College London (UCL) will be leading a seminar titled "Transport and poverty in Britain" at UCL on Wednesday 17 December @ 16:00.
About the CTS Seminar Series
The CTS seminar series aims to facilitate discussion on current research topics in the transport field. Seminars are held jointly with our colleagues in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London. They are usually held on Wednesday afternoons at Imperial College London or University College London.
Seminars are free of charge and open to all interested parties.
Please register for this event using the following link<http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/engineering/cts/eventssummary/event_5-8-2014-8-58-42>.
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