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THIS extraordinary “flying machine” is a hybrid airship being developed for one of Russia’s remote resource-rich states. Like Western Australia, the Russian state needs major infrastructure investment - and the airship designers believe their flying machine could help bridge some of the infrastructure gaps. For example, the artist’s impression here shows how the airship could be used to fight wildfires - by acting as the world’s largest water bomber. But in other roles it could be turned into a highly manoeuvrable heavy-lift crane, a “flying hospital” or a transporter to carry ore from remote mining sites. Learn more by downloading the latest TransScan journal.
Highlights from the journal
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Does a knowledge gap about the sea hinder planning? -
Getting a more accurate fix on sea levels
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Identifying the risks in the Perth region -
Will Australia’s future coastline really change?
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Brushing up on uncertainty -
Are drug myths undermining road safety?
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Beating anxiety with tunnel vision -
Time to plan for more contingencies?
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What would persuade more people to live in the North West? - How one new city is building for diversity
- Is there a new treatment for anxious motorists?
- Great roads - but thousands are ‘too scared’ to use them
- Could cars be co-opted for a public alarm system?
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Back to the future, via the Thirties
- Has Perth Forgotten it's Rivers?
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- How an international airport found its sea legs
- Never mind the roads, what about the rules? WHO investigates the international road toll
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Every emergency needs its Plan B: The interim report of Victoria's Black Saturday Royal Commission -
Black Saturday: a look at possible new policy changes -
Measuring Perth's quality of living -
Building the case for burying the infrastructure -
Road trauma: the new ‘global epidemic’ - If all else fails - call in the engineers
- Can information systems beat congestion?
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Do road authorities have a role in cutting CO2 emission
Does Perth need a new face?
