Alaska is obviously a very environmentally sensitive area. Alaska is also a very big area. People must be able to traverse the distances. Obviously there have been countless studies done on what the best way to move people from point A to point B through various delicate areas.
You can read about one such study by [...]

Take a look at this video and watch how this massive vehicle moves easily from water to land.
Pay special attention to how close the people are standing to the hovercraft and please notice they are not getting blasted by sand and air.
A lot of people’s objections to hovercraft is obviously based on pure myth.

As the articles on this site have pointed out time and time again, hovercraft are really the only logical choice for increasing mass transit in the D.C. Metro area.
Hovercraft are far less expensive than any of the currently available alternatives. The least expensive of the alternatives is 3 times as costly and the most expensive [...]

A video about the Stagecoach Hovercraft plan for Scotland.
As you can see, this is a good solution to their needs.
It is a shame that politics is getting in the way of this.

“We cannot build our way out of traffic congestion” This statement has been made by the VDOT Commissioner and Virginia’s Secretary of Transportation.
What does this mean?
It means that according to some very experienced transportation experts that it is impossible to build enough roads.
Therefor, building more roads will never be the solution to bad traffic [...]

In another case of trying to answer potential questions about the use of hovercraft for commuter traffic in the Potomac region this article had hoped to look into the safety and accident history of hovercraft.
Doing a search in Google yielded no results. Assuming that the search phrases used were inaccurate, both CNN and the BBC [...]

As you watch this video of a hovercraft doing its job, please notice a few things.
First off, while hovercraft will never be considered a stealthy vehicle, notice that they really are only about as loud as a city bus.
Next, notice the people actually standing behind the main propellers on the bridge. Obviously they do not [...]

There is no denying that hovercraft are popular in the imagination of many people. From Joss Whedon’s insistence that there is no point to making a Sci-Fi movie like Serenity without a hovercraft to George Lucas’ repeated use of the craft and their variants in his Star Wars Universe they have long been the staple [...]

Why would hovercraft be ideal for use on the Potomac?
There are many reasons why hovercraft would be perfect for use on the Potomac river. This article will briefly cover a few of them but it is not an exhaustive piece.
Obviously, the Potomac waterways are both an environmentally fragile and abused area. Conventional watercraft have too [...]

New Heavy Rail Dulles Metrorail Extension
23 mile system
7 Stations – 60,000 passengers/ day
Total Cost: [...]