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Today’s outdated, automobile-centric transportation landscape is in trouble. Although it was inspired by the original Futurama exhibit shown at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, America has changed dramatically since then. Neither the vision nor the results have ever been seriously re-evaluated or updated.

As climate change becomes everyone’s concern and today’s American auto industry struggles, what’s next? Personal rapid transit systems, automated cars, hi-speed trains, advanced buses, bio-fueled airplanes, autonomous big-rigs, electric motorcycles, multi-modal transit hubs, floating container ports or a seamless combination of all these and more?

While there are many exciting possibilities, it is critically important that future, sustainable transportation solutions are informed by serious analysis conducted by all relevant disciplines. These solutions must also be compelling to the public and the enterprises that deliver them –– no easy task but a challenge that inspires OnGoing.

This is why OnGoing advocates assembling the best and brightest minds to create a bold new Futurama 2.0 vision for innovative, integrated, advanced mobility and transportation systems. This vision is needed to point the way forward for an America that continues to be prosperous, equitable, exciting and sustainable.

Future, sustainable transportation solutions must be developed as part of a complete, integrated system. This is the only way to give individuals and enterprises meaningful choices and opportunities to travel seamlessly using different modes of transportation, in a timely, safe and convenient manner.

This is why OnGoing believes that design thinking and systems thinking are key to developing viable transportation solutions that are compelling to the public and to the enterprises that provide them.

OnGoing is also a center for disseminating discussion, research and pertinent information about all things related to advanced mobility and transportation solutions.