Futuristic Transportation System developed with QFD

Eleonora Sonnati, Alessandro Cerullo and Elisa Ghirlandi,

Leonardo Frizziero, Giampiero Donnici, Alfredo Liverani, Gian Maria Santi

Department of Industrial Engineering

Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

Viale Risorgimento, 2 – 40136, Bologna, Italy

leonardo.frizziero@unibo.it, giampiero.donnici@unibo.it, alfredo.liverani@unibo.it

This paper presents a project proposal about the design of an innovative and futuristic transport system that aims to replace highways and major roads with a fast, safe and ecological new arrangement. The aim was to conceive an innovative new infrastructure of transport that fits into a future city scenery. In the current historical period we are invested by fast, frenetic and unstoppable evolution that leads to the continuous replacement of products and technologies that in a few years went from being innovative to become obsolete and outdated. Moreover, this process has inevitably affected the whole world of transport: it has assisted and is still witnessing the replacement of diesel and petrol engines with hybrid and electric ones. These evolution and change have led us into the research and understanding of increasingly innovative technologies such as the ones with zero impact motors or magnetic levitation, which in the near future will probably become a valid alternative, or even the new pioneers of transport around the world.

At the beginning, the methodology used for the present case study was adopted to analyze how people used to move in the current period (i.e., 2019-20); then, it was taken into consideration the problems linked to the main means of transport diffused, with clean and green technologies; later, it was carried out a market analysis for each category, with related Benchmarking, in order to find the most significant technical characteristics of each one. According to the emerged results, a concept of an innovative transport system was developed, in order to guarantee the safety and privacy of passengers in addition to other performance items, as high speed or integration with other means. The intention was to create a transport network that could connect many cities with direct and easily practicable routes that could replace highways.

Keywords

Future transport, Future city, Safe, Ecological, High Speed, Magnetic Levitation.