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9. The Creative Ideas
established by
the Duxford Workshop
The Duxford Workshop produced 138 ideas
and these were identified under the following
classification:
• Systems of Systems ideas - 36 ideas*
• Systems concepts - 38 ideas
• Enabling technologies: - 38 ideas
(* these were distinct ideas and combined
those which were very similar or identical)
In this summary report we have clustered the
ideas under a limited number of headings.
No assessment has been made of any of
these ideas. They have been captured as they
have been produced or created during the
workshop. None are singled out as having
special merit at this stage. It is clear that the
ideas expressed here are not all of the same
value and for a lot of the ideas the innovative
content might be judged marginal (see section
6.2.3.). In an established process some of
these ideas would be developed and then
reviewed in the Idea Portal and their potential
considered. Only those developed submissions
with serious potential to be favourably
received at Assessment would go forward.
9.1. Alternative Travelling
Five ideas were concerned with some aspect
of breaking the mould of travelling by current
methods and rules.
One idea looked at the possibilities of
transportation by a vacuum transit system that
would have efficiencies compared to surface
rail feeder lines and have the potential for
longer routes too. Of course, this was neither
a new idea nor one that might be classed as
aviation, but the idea had merit in that it was
being considered as a way of breaking out
from the constraints of the present regime.
Other ideas challenged the whole concept
of travelling as a way of gaining the rewards
that travel has been seen to provide – new
sights, new experiences, new friends and so
on – especially for the leisure market. Two
proposals re-considered virtual transport
combined with virtual reality as a mechanism
for providing at least some of those
perceptions of the rewards of travel.
Fig.9. Artist’s impression of a high speed connection
between an offshore airport and a land based terminal.
This could be a vacuum tube transport modality
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