Futurists view on transport for 2040 timescales

This post is someone elses from a forum i follow, it shows the value of social media AND futurists thinking, much of which i aspire to in the sort of things i choose to post on the blog. Excuse the plagiarism, as we know 99% of stuff posted on the web is not original thinking, but we keep trying:

Brian Pomeroy • We futurists sure love flying cars! I don't know if we'll see them by 2040, but we may see some of these transportation concepts instead:

"Pod cars" proposed by GM for congested cities (think souped-up Segways):
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/general-motors-en-v

A perpetually moving bullet train that picks up and drops off whole passenger compartments:
http://softhunder.blogspot.com/2010/04/train-that-never-stops-at-station.html

From China, a straddling bus/train that rides overtop auto traffic:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/02/3d-express-coach-pictures_n_667452.html

"SkyTran", a zero-emission mag-lev monorail that uses individual cars, proposed for Los Angeles:
http://www.unimodal.com/PlaySkytran.html

Many of these innovations will be driven from a future in which fossil fuels are increasingly scarce:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/09/24/oil/index.html