Updated 11 Jan 00 * Copyright 1999-2000 by Andrew Homer.
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Albuquerque
Transportation
Academy
Copyright 1999 by Andrew Homer
Have you been in a major city in a third world country with diesel trucks and
buses driving by with untuned engines? The thick dark exhaust is putrid and sickening.
Let's try to make a wholesome difference in the world. President John Kennedy
gave America a goal of putting a man on the Moon and we did it. I propose we adapt the goal of providing transportation
that emits zero pollution.
We can do it.
Albuquerque
Transportation
Museums
In Albuquerque about two years ago, someone came up with the idea of acquiring
two giant warehouses that the railway is no longer using and convert them into the Wheel Museum.
I agree.
But I propose that an Aerospace Museum be built at the corner of Wyoming and
Central because of it's proximity to the entry gate at Kirtland Air Force Base.
I propose that the two museums provide classroom space for the Transportation
Academy which will be a new school of the New Mexico State University.
Rather than having Intel, in Rio Rancho, be a Pied Piper for the students in the Rio Grande valley,
I propose that we adapt Transportation as a recommended career field.
I'm not suggesting to bring heavy industry into the area, but rather we become a research Mecca
for the diverse modes of transportation. We'll try to get research grants and be a consolidated research center
for the American transportation industry as do consortiums as the European Airbus.
Since New Mexico already has within its borders: Los Alamos National Labs, Phillips Lab, Sandia
National Lab, New Mexico State University, and the White Sands Missle Range; we have fabulous facilities and human
resources readily available to initiate this concerted endeavor in research and design of the various modes of
transportation.
In America in general and in New Mexico in particular, students achievement in Mathematics and
the hard Sciences is lagging behind the performance of the students in many other countries. I'm hoping that by
studying the history of the evolution of transportation at our new Transportation Museums will inspire our students
to take their math and hard sciences classes more seriously... knowing that those topics are the prerequisites
to become an engineer or an inventor in the career field of Transportation.
In the global economy, Transportation is a much larger market than Computers. Now, that there
are 6 billion people on this planet who want to go somewhere, it's critical that we produce modes of transportation
that is efficient, economical, safe, and ecological. So, while northern California, Massachusetts, Austin, and
Dublin compete as the ultimate Silicon Valley; going into the new millennium, Albuquerque should stake a claim
as the Transportation Valley.
