Terra - Rethinking Urban Transportation

According to authors of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, within 50 years, regions of Earth’s temperature will rise to uninhabitable levels affecting 30% of the projected human population. This thesis proposes a revolutionary transportation vision for the new megacities these billions of climate migrants may build. The conception of new cities in undeveloped parts of the world, less affected by climate change, creates an opportunity for innovative transportation design not constrained by existing infrastructure. The design will improve user lives in an urban environment by focusing on revolutionary experience change. Primary research methods include interviews and user observation studies to understand behaviour, accessibility needs, and ergonomic factors. A full-scale ergonomic study will be done to test various elements of human interaction and user comfort. Additionally, existing models can be used to score the system's sustainable factors environmentally, economically, and socially. Research results inform an impactful industrial design solution backed by user-based data. This thesis report asks how revolutionary public transportation can be designed for new major cities, as a response to climate change migration. Keywords: transportation, design, micromobility, accessibility, city