Urbanites you've got some big problems:
- Air quality: Vehicle emissions harm human health and the natural environment
- Commute Time: Time lost in traffic affects overall productivity and quality of life.
- Commute Cost: Expensive commutes reduce quality of life espcially for low-income families.
- Energy security: Dependence on petrol-based mobility affects national security.
- Noise and vibration: Noise affects productivity and health.
- Accidents: Each year 1.2 million lives are lost due to vehicle accidents (5 times that of wars).
- Global climate change: Vehicles are responsible for 25% of fossil-based CO2 emissions.
- Severance: Roadways sever communities and inhibit social interactions.
- Economic efficiency: Financial capital consumed by car expenditures reduces capital for other investments.
- Visual intrusion: Cars, roads, and parking areas all detract from a city's beauty.
- Loss of living space: Roads and parking consume large amounts of urban space.
We have a simple solution:
'FlyRails' monorails. Modern material science, and computer control technologies have matured to provide urban dwellers with an alternative. Our engineers have designed a small and inexpensive modular monorail system that can be constructed in weeks. 'FlyRails' is so small it has the footprint of power poles. Moving 1 or 2 people per vehicle, instead of 200 to 300, lowers system cost incredibly and speeds construction. By moving 2 people every 5 seconds verses 200 to 300 every 7 minutes you get the same capacity! Because of the cost of constructing a 200 to 300 people-mover, stations can only be near a small percentage of people. 'Flyrails' creates a 1 kilometer grid that is close to everybody.
Every problem has a solution:
- Air quality: 'FlyRails' Vehicles are electrical and extremely efficient. No direct emissions to harm human health and the natural environment.
- Commute Time: Vehicles are above ground traffic. No stop-and-go. Since there are 1 or 2 people per vehicle with only one destination there is no need to stop until the destination is reached. Wait times are reduced from several minutes to seconds. Since the stations are on a 1 kilometer grid the time to reach a station is reduced dramatically.
- Commute Cost: Bus, light rail, and sky-train monorails are inherently expensive. In the end the expensive support infrastructure must be paid for. If not directly by commuters then by the tax-payer. Also, commuters often pay more to get to the mass-transit station than they do for the mass transit. FlyRail stations are at most only a 1 kilometer walk away. Housing also costs more when it is near a large mass-transit station.
- Energy security: Our Vehicles are extremely efficient. Nations using gas turbine generated electricity will cut petroleum use dramatically.
- Noise and vibration: Virtually no noise from our electric motors ... vibration is nonexistent. Small rails are easier to maintain and are noise and vibration free.
- Accidents: Passengers are placed above harm's way. Detection system prevents vehicles from crashing into each other. Zero accidents. Incredibly, of the billions of man-hours travelled on monorails in the 20th century, there was only 1 fatality.
- Global climate change: Electric vehicles with motor-in-the-hub technology are extremely efficient and reduce fossil-based CO2 emissions. Concrete, a big CO2 emitter, is reduced 1000 times.
- Severance: Unlike roadways, and train tracks 'FlyRails' do not sever communities. 'FlyRails' separate communities no more than an electrical power pole system does.
- Economic efficiency: Our rails are less expensive than sidewalks and consume less expensive real estate, and our vehicles cost less than a motorcycle and last much longer. Businesses don't have to pay for expensive parking. All traditional mass transport systems must stop-and-go several times before a commuter reaches his destination. Most of the energy goes into starting and stopping. Flyrails does not stop until the destination. Economic wealth is spread more evenly beyond the large mass-transit stations.
- Visual intrusion: No cars, no roads, and no parking areas are necessary.
- Loss of living space: Consumes no more space than a power pole. No roads, no sidewalks, and no parking lots to consume valuable urban space.
Just the facts:
City planners model mass transit solutions on 19th century train technology. Face the facts: the Bangkok Sky Train vehicles move about 200-300 comfortably seated people every 10 minutes from each station. A FlyRails vehicle can move 2 people from each station every 5 seconds but faster because there's no stops. That's 240 people every 10 minutes. The systems have similar capacities, what are the costs?
- The Sky Train costs roughly 10,000 times FlyRails!
- The Sky Train took years to build ... FlyRails would only take weeks
- Bangkok was a mess during the construction and many businesses closed
- Sky Train you can wait 10 minutes for a ride ... FlyRails only 5 seconds
City Planners don't realize their model does not fit reality. There is no need to board 200-300 people at once. Boarding 240 people every 10 minutes is equivalent to boarding 2 people every 5 seconds. The entry gates to the 'Sky Train' have a very even flow of people at about 2 per 5 seconds. The 200-300 person model does not fit:
- People do not arrive at a station in groups. There is no need to move them in groups.
- For each 'Sky Train' stop most of the people on board don't want to stop!
- The correct model is the escalator that moves people from the 'Sky Train' entrance to the boarding station. It moves people continuously, one person every few steps, not 300 people at once.
FlyRails makes no attempt to sell our rail systems to government policy makers addicted to using 19th century technology to solve today's transportation problems. Whether it be the Sky Train-like rails in Singapore, Bangkok, and Japan or the Light Rails in San Jose and Los Angeles these overblown mega-projects don't make economic sense. Bureaucrats are not capable of making the leap into the 21st century.
Instead we turn to smart investors in the private sector who realize:
- The commuter market is huge
- Inadequate alternatives (thanks to unimaginative city planners) leave commuters desperate for a way to get to work in a quick, safe, and healthy way
- Easy to turn a profit quickly when our initial system costs are so much lower than the competition
