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SkyTran Overview
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Overview
NASA Research Park
Moffett Field, California
SkyTran Overview
The Problem: Congestion/Pollution
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The Solution:
• Low emissions
• Travels 150 MPH
• Silent, Secure, and Safe
• Low energy consumption
• No stops in traffic or at others’ stations.
• Low cost, factory built, and assembled on-site
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Public Transportation Alternatives?
• Slow
• Inconvenient
• Dirty
• Vulnerable
• Massive
• Costly
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SkyTran Overview
Last Century/This Century
• Replaces Road/Track
With Elevated Guide Way
• Replaces Polluting Engine
With Electric Motor
• Replaces Tire/Wheels
With Magnetic Levitation
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Dynamic Motion
SkyTran is true rapid transit: its vehicles flow at a steady, fast
rate, moving up to 14,000 people per hour per guideway!
• Travels up steep grades (up to 20°)
• No stopping at other passenger’s stations
Cars Exit
Cars Enter
Boarding Area
Main Stream Always Flows
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Convenient
SkyTran is On Demand: It is ready for you when you need it.
Board a waiting vehicle or call one to come to you.
• Vehicles are ready and
waiting for use
• “Get on and go!”
• No schedules to follow
• Stations can be placed
anywhere: inside buildings,
on rooftops, or in narrow
passage ways
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Green
SkyTran: an environmentally friendly way to travel, powered
by renewable, clean energy.
• Minimal carbon footprint
• Non-polluting
• Doesn’t burn energy
unless it is moving people
(not blindly following a
schedule–regardless of
actual passengers)
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Secure
SkyTran is a safe and secure system that doesn’t congregate
people while boarding, moving, or disembarking.
• Individual cars means
no vulnerable crowds
• Securely-locked vehicles
• Computer-controlled
with identified users
• Grid layout versus an
exposed trunk line
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Private
SkyTran is private. Each car is a personal space.
It’s like being in your living room or office.
• The privacy of a car
• Perfect for doing work
or having a secure
conversation
• A comfortable place to
sit back and relax
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Inexpensive
SkyTran is factory made–like Lego–and costs less to make,
maintain, and operate than other transportation systems.
Mode
Cost/Mile
Bullet Train
$500 Million
Light Rail
$100 Million
Freeway
$40 Million
SkyTran
$9 Million
Sidewalk
$2 Million
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SkyTran Overview
• Alleviating congestion
• Reducing pollution
• Delivering a high speed, low
cost, transportation solution
Coming to a station near you!
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