http://biofuels.usu.edu/files/publications/publication/pub__9988602.pdf 

Automated Electric Transportation

Transforming America’s Transportation Future

This paper describes a bold, new approach to transform transportation in America that integrates energy, vehicle, highway, and communication infrastructures into a flexible, convenient, and Automated Electric Transportation (AET) system. AET has the unique potential to simultaneously and dramatically reduce petroleum use, carbon emissions, air pollution, traffic congestion, and highway crashes in America while creating millions of new jobs. It could save the U.S. economy trillions of dollars over the next few decades and enable GDP growth rivalling the economic value derived from constructing the Interstate Highway System. The first step in realizing this potential is a coordinated, national effort leading to a comprehensive technology and deployment roadmap.

Contributing Organizations:

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Utah State University and others

Summary

All road transportation would be powered and controlled by conductors embedded in the roads which would transfer power by 'wireless resonance coupling'.