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Hop into your Personal Transport (PT), drive out of your garage onto your street, then decide if you want to take the "slow road" or the "go-road". The "'go-road" being a network of rail-like roadways that allow for faster speed. Need to go cross-country? Take your PT along the network to the high speed
cross-country lines. The PT would be smaller and lighter than the average size car (whatever that is) and be able to propel itself like a car, or run on the network like a mag-lev being automatically driven to the destination by the PT network. The high-speed lines would be driven by the same principles as the electric pulses that start up some roller-coasters, and being in a vaccuum tunnel would help against drag. Hopefully traveling at speeds that rival airplanes.
Your PT would convert from road vehicle to network vehicle at "changing" stations, and then be in the hands of the network routers to get you where you need to go.
This would be feasible for long-distance commutes or travel.
Monomobile
http://www.monomobile.com/
Monorail using electric cars that can operate off-rail [quarterbaker, Jan 02 2002]
Integrated Transportation System
http://faculty.wash.../jbs/itrans/its.htm
Take any automobile, park it on a pallet, and ride the rails. New proposal out of Colorado, USA. [quarterbaker, Jan 02 2002]
Other Mass/Alternate Transit Ideas
http://faculty.wash.../itrans/itrans2.htm
Page listing lots of links (including the first 2, above). [quarterbaker, Jan 02 2002]
Advanced Transit Association
http://advancedtransit.org/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Cities21
http://www.cities21.org/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Modular Automated Individual Transport
http://www.maitint.org/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
SOME COMMON SENSE ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
http://seattlelifes...bin/CommonSense.htm
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Austin Citizens for Personal Rapid Transit
http://www.acprt.org/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Citizens For Personal Rapid Transit
http://www.cprt.org/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
(??) Personal Rapid Transit: A Potential New Urban Transport Solution
http://www.jrc.es/p...nglish/TRA1E566.htm
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
http://www.electric-bikes.com/prt.htm
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
EVACUATED TUBE TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
http://www.et3.com/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
The CyberTran Information Page
http://www.cybertran.com/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Journal of Advanced Transportation
http://www.advanced-transport.com/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
ULTra Urban Light Transport -- Advanced Transport Systems, Ltd.
http://www.atsltd.co.uk/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
BiWay Dual-Mode Transport
http://www.buick.co.uk/biway/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Computerized Ultra Light Overhead Rail
http://www.lycoming...rt/bogle/culor.html
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Magnetic Support Technology for Transport Applications -- Modern Transport Systems Corp.
http://www.magsupport.com/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
MicroRail Mass Transit -- MegaRail Transportation Systems Inc.
http://www.megarail...Rail_Urban_Transit/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Personal Rapid Transit made easy
http://ourworld.cs....Tdesign/PRTpage.htm
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
SmartSkyways, LLC
http://www.smartskyways.com/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
SwedeTrack System -- Automated Beamcarried Traffic
http://www.swedetrack.com/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Synchro-Rail -- Relevet Limited
http://www.synchrorail.com/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Taxi2000 Corp.
http://www.skywebexpress.com/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
Skycar -- Moller International
http://www.moller.com/skycar/
[wlhaught, Sep 16 2005]
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Seems a little messy, but, hey, I'm all for anything that reduces traffic. |
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we have the M25 - enough said |
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What's the M25, a large firecracker? |
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Fully Baked - in multiple manifestations - check links. |
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Fine job [qb], the Monomobile is exactly what I was after. After a little searching on the net, I wasn't able to find exactly that. So I figured if it was partially baked, one of you would know. Again, thanks [qb].
Just if they could create it to rival speeds to that of airplanes ;o) |
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[P.O. - po in disguise?]: What? |
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[quarterbaker] I've already made that speculation and I stand by it. |
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PO is quarterbakers father see croissant crumbly thing |
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NOTHING whatsoever to do with me. |
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I like that monomobile thing...Had a similar idea a couple of days ago, using train tracks and catenary wires like electric trains do...Best bit of that that could be added is to recharge the on-board batteries as you ride the rail, so you don't have to get where you're going and plug in.. |
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Skytran: http://www.skytran.net |
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Someone agains "mixed mode" PRT (that works both as car and network)
http://kinetic.seattle.wa.us/nxtlevel/prt/ruf.html |
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ALL the systems available:
http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/whatsnew.htm
And a matrix comparing them:
http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/techtable.htm |
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The Skytran idea looks good, but it is based on a single line concept: it has a pre-defined route.
I think the system would be perfect if it had controlled 'Y' type junctions. The user could then have a larger choice of destinations.
Computer control would ensure seamless merging of traffic, and the distribution of empty pods on the system. |
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