Sharjah is travelling into the future with skypods

Sharjah is travelling into the future with skypods

In most parts of the world, transportation remains a highly polluting sector, the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions such as CO₂. It is estimated that each year nearly 7 million people die due to excessive exposure to pollution-fueled fine particles in the air. The bulk of these particles are released by conventional transportation systems.

Over the years, emissions have created havoc with Earth, bringing it to the brink of disaster in the form of climate change, as witnessed in the alarming rising temperatures across the globe. The summer of 2022 has been particularly harsh, an eye-opener and a harbinger of worse things to come, if the world does not double up efforts to reduce emissions.

Across the globe, both at the government and entrepreneurial levels, great innovations are being developed, using unique technologies that will gradually see the world adopting greener transportation systems. It is heartening to see that technology parks are encouraging scientists, innovators and techies to put their heads together to create smarter non-polluting transportation systems.

Sharjah is blazing a new trail in this field. The Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park (SRTIP), a vibrant incubation hub for new-age innovators, is developing hi-tech, hi-speed hanging skypods that can carry