A lot has been down to help break down a cycle so much you can fold it into a box. Designs to make them more compact only got more smarter over years. A new folding bike concept by Victor Aleman is one such innovation that adds the smart tag a little more firmly to it.

Optimum use of available urban space, efficiency to stay as compact as possible, were what made the designer work on such a concept.

The bicycle’s wheel has six modules, each with double pivot in their joints. This lets the wheel to get folded and turn smaller. Aleman says the double triangle structure is composed by expandable modules. Each module collapses to a smaller dimension and then these modules align by the rotation of the axis in the joint of the structure. The structure has special parts that fold into the form of an X that aligns all the modules to their position. The bicycle thereby becomes a bundle in the end.

Via: Treehugger

When you think about urban transportation, you might either think about bicycles if you are too green minded, or you just might think of mass transit like the rest of us would. Either ways, they are not efficient or useful to the problems faced by a large urban centre.

The Airbia is a system of airships which would fly from the suburbs to the city centre and would form an additional network of transportation in an urban realm. It allows easy hovering, landing and passenger access. It has the capacity to carry 400 people and would fly at a speed of 150 kilometres per hour. It would fly at a height of about 30 to 150 meters and is safe from all angles. It uses helium to fly and has been inspired by Zeppelin technologies.

Authorities can set up pick platforms anywhere they think is convenient and is thus one of the best urban transportation systems I have come across lately. Airbia is one of the more modern and efficient concepts designed lately by design establishments. It is not known if it would ever be employed in reality.

With automobile tycoons already battling with the production of automobiles that maintains equilibrium between space and economy, CLEVER or Compact Low Emission Vehicle is a concept vehicle from the Technical University of Berlin that expresses a new meaning to the urban Transport. Running on compressed natural gas, this three-wheeled vehicle (two rear wheels and one front) is 3 feet wide and can accommodate two persons (good opportunity for working couples). The computer-monitored hydraulic rolling system offers an ultimate driving experience with zero lateral forces at sloping position of up to 45degree, likewise riding a bike. Making a fuel utilization of 188 miles per gallon, this 10 ft long, 3.3 ft wide and 4.4 feet high vehicle is ever comes into production then it would cost you $10,000.

Currently, it has to work on its concept so that it can have an edge over its competitor’s creation of Carver One (video below) that has hit UK market at a cost of £27,654.

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