How Boeing Envisions the Future of Transportation – AINtv

As society's travel needs and expectations change rapidly, leading companies are stepping up their investment in new technology to push the boundaries of what's possible. This is what motivates the Boeing Group and its new upcoming initiative, which will see the aerospace group take a holistic and in some cases, unconventional approach to reimagining the

future

of

transportation

. When we think about today's life, people's busy lives, what we see happening is that time continues to increase in value and so when we think about that from a

transportation

point of view. Is it influencing how we see people and goods moving?

So when you think you know what that might mean in an urban context or you know things closer to the ground, how can we make traveling easier for people? More efficient for people. Reed doesn't get stuck in traffic. all the time and then when you think about traveling long distances, how can we go faster to really recognize the increasing value of people's time that is really behind a lot of what we're thinking about in terms of our technologies to the

future

? We're looking at transportation from a holistic approach because, especially for transportation, you know, as we think about it, it's always going to be multimodal, there's going to be some days where you can't fly because, for whatever reason, if you want to go, you want to go.

To get from point A to point B or if you want to move a package from point A to point B, you're going to need multiple ways to do it, so we're trying to take a holistic view of that, obviously, where our business comes into play. is moving through the air, we believe that moving more people and packages through the air will release the limitations of ground infrastructure and make travel more efficient, so we focus on that, but we also recognize that in an ecosystem around to future mobility. It's going to be multimodal, which we're talking about, you know, with our upcoming announcement about Boeing and really focusing on the ecosystem of this future mobility system, it's going to be interconnected, so there's going to be communications and networking infrastructure that needs to be there to support that ecosystem clearly you know when we have elements of that with our current air traffic management system, but when we think about many more things in the air that will have to change and evolve if we want to maintain our safety levels and the integrity of that system, for So having that communications and network infrastructure will be very important.

Creating an environment where more diverse modes of transportation can coexist effectively and safely will require new thinking. The Boeing NEX program includes a partnership with artificial intelligence specialists. -ignition, so we will see a future air traffic management system. You know, we're where vehicles talk to each other by talking to a network so people know where they are, but you know, there are more places where vehicles can deconflict each other. to need a human being to solve them because a more complex world is where AI and these technologies can really help deal with complexity. You think about more things flying for urban mobility, moving people, moving packages, there will be an incremental approach to this because you know.

Safety will remain the top priority. There will always be a need, as we introduce new flying vehicles, to really understand their reliability, their safety levels, you know that takes hours of operation and experience, so how do you mitigate that risk until you really feel like you can? I've gained that experience and those hours of operation to really understand the security aspect of these things and so you're going to find ways to mitigate that with how you use these assets initially, so the good news is you know not to. we will go. from 0 to 10 million things in the air in a day in terms of long-haul air travel one of the biggest potential changes is the prospect of hypersonic flights at five times the speed of sound in recent weeks we launched a concept for an airplane hypersonic, a Mach 5 aircraft, it's an interesting place to think about this, obviously this is a technology that's probably decades away, but when you think about a Mach 5 aircraft on some of these long routes and how many times a day it could turn the plane. presents some intriguing economic engineering, we're calling it to see if it becomes the tipping point where this actually becomes viable as a truly commercial means of transportation.

You know that technologically there will be some difficult problems to solve, but it could present some interesting ones. The economics too, so let's work, start working on that, once you have a design that that physics that you know technically closes, then you can start to say, "Okay, how do you know what the economics of that design are?" ?" and then I can say "Okay." What must the design do to be economically viable? Can I modify the design to achieve this? All of this is driving Boeing to expand its network as it searches for the skills it will need to meet the challenge of keeping transportation up to speed.

With modern life when I talk to engineering students I say I don't really care what your major is I think we have a job for you I don't care if you are a chemical engineer or an industrial engineer human factors engineer I'm sure we have a job for you somewhere because these are multidisciplinary problems and therefore, you know, if you are a smart engineering student, we want you to come work for the Boeing Company because these will be very difficult problems that are multidisciplinary in nature, we will find people who want specialize in particular areas related to propulsion or aerodynamics or you know whatever, but we just want we need the brightest people in the world thinking about these things yes I enjoyed this video, like it, share it and subscribe to our channel .

Also visit AI and online.com and check out our e-newsletters for the latest aviation industry news.