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An important current and prospective medium- to long-term objective of transport systems worldwide is to continuously improve sustainability. On the one hand, this implies handling growing passenger and freight transport demand efficiently, effectively, and safely, and on the other mitigating their direct and indirect impacts on the environment and society such as energy consumption and related emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG), local noise, congestion, traffic incidents/accidents, land use/take, and waste on the other.
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At present, solar energy is routinely used on nearly all spacecraft. On a larger scale, this technology combined with already demonstrated wireless power transmission could satisfy nearly all needs for electricity on Earth. Thus, the SSP system would consist of lower-cost environmentally friendly launch vehicles, large solar power satellites, and a power transmission system, technologies already known today at least at the conceptual level (NSS 2007).
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NSS. (2007). Space solar power: An investment for today-an energy solution for tomorrow. Washington, D.C.: National Space Society.
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Janić, M. (2014). Advanced Transport Systems: Contribution to Sustainability. In: Advanced Transport Systems. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6287-2_7
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