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Effective Global Transportation in the Twenty-First Century:
A Vision Document

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Appendix A

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
FORECAST OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

The following are projections of when key technologies will become available over the next thirty years. They have resulted from a Delphi survey of technical experts conducted by The George Washington University in 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1996. Key developments are summarized below grouped by their period of emergence, and probability of achievement [in brackets] as seen by the panel:

2000-2004