Collaboration produces an innovative alternative for paving urban areas: High-tech Paver Keeps City Traffic on a Roll

摘要

Though the flying car is a recurring symbol of the future, research done in the real world suggests that roads will remain a big part of our daily lives and, if anything, our dependency on them will only increase. Ironically, while the design of the vehicles we drive has come a long way, the machines, materials and processes we use to construct and maintain roads haven't changed significantly since the 1940s. Since only one basic configuration of paver exists today, road maintenance has to be done using machines that were originally constructed for paving new road surfaces.