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An assessment of inductive coupling roadway powered vehiclesThe technical concept underlying the roadway powered vehicle system is the combination of an electrical power source embedded in the roadway and a vehicle-mounted power pickup that is inductively coupled to the roadway power source. The feasibility of such a system, implemented on a large scale was investigated. Factors considered included current and potential transportation modes and requirements, economics, energy, technology, social and institutional issues. These factors interrelate in highly complex ways, and a firm understanding of each of them does not yet exist. The study therefore was structured to manipulate known data in equally complex ways to produce a schema of options and useful questions that can form a basis for further, harder research. A dialectical inquiry technique was used in which two adversary teams, mediated by a third-party team, debated each factor and its interrelationship with the whole of the known information on the topic.
Document ID
19800021045
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Leschly, K. O. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Feinberg, A. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Heft, R. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Warren, G. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 4, 2013
Publication Date
August 15, 1980
Subject Category
Communications And Radar
Report/Patent Number
JPL-PUB-79-115
NASA-CR-163437
Accession Number
80N29546
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: EM-78-I-01-4209
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS7-100
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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