With the name of my Travel Blog being ‘Travel the
globe with Rosina’, it’s only apt to travel the globe and talk about the experiences
I have. I’m now in Abu Dhabi for the Easter holiday and wow, what a wonderful
time I’m having.
With the World’s Energy Future Summit just being
held in Abu Dhabi, capital of the UAE, it seemed appropriate to step into
another world … Step into the future … Step into Masdar City.
Masdar, a Mubadala Company, boasts that Masdar is
‘The Reality of Future Energy’, and sure enough it is.
Everything, including the architecture, transportation
and reasons behind structures, blew us away.
We are at the dawn of a global energy revolution
that will transform the way we think about power generation, distribution and
consumption. Companies must have the agility, the expertise and the long-term
vision to respond to this new and uncertain landscape, and so, being well ahead
of its time, Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City is the very vision of what is being
described here.
Operating across the full spectrum of renewable
energy and sustainable technologies, it was just amazing to see Masdar helping
develop the greenprint for how we will live in the future.
Utterly flabbergasted at the design of the city and
its layout, we stepped into the future and had a ride in our very own Personal
Rapid Transit (PRT), which was mind-boggling as it moved by itself and wasn’t
even on a track … What a superb mode of transport for the future. In answering
one of the priorities, Masdar City’s master plan of being a pedestrian-focused
community, a rich network of public and personal transportation options will
ensure ease to move across the city.
A public transport system of electric buses,
electric cars and other clean-energy vehicles will provide transport within the
city, while Abu Dhabi’s light rail and Metro lines will pass through the
centre.
In doing so, Masdar City is piloting a PRT and
Freight Rapid Transit system of electric-powered, automated, single-cabin
vehicles that offer privacy, comfort and non-stop travel.
We felt like aliens of some sort, stepping into this
city of the future, and imagining how Abu Dhabi would implement the same
systems into its city depending on Masdar’s success.
As the capital of the United Arab Emirates as well
as being home to 8% of proven global crude oil reserves, Abu Dhabi is spending
billions of dollars in the development of Masdar and the establishing of the
capital as a global centre of excellence in renewable energy and clean
technologies.
Masdar Institute, an independent, research-driven
graduate institute with the ongoing support of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), is focussed on being at the heart of the home-grown research
and development of Masdar City.
Masdar City is somewhere you should surely take the
time to visit, and you might just feel like an alien in your own PRT. Think of
the future, think Masdar City.
It’s worth a look! http://masdarcity.ae/en/
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