摘要: |
It will be shown that with expanding use of private cars a dual-mode system is required, but that the Intelligent Transportation System previously proposed by the National Automated Highway System Consortium was not the right answer. Both highways and railways are obsolete and must be replaced with twenty-first-century ground- transportation infrastructure. Approach: Design and construct a system that would use special electric dual-mode private and commercial vehicles to be manually driven on streets, and operate under automatic control on maglev guideways. In addition to cars, busses and freight- container vehicles (with no wheels, power plants, driver accommodations, or drivers) would also operate on the guideways. Guideway speeds of 100kph (60mph) in and around cities, and 325kph (200mph) between cities are proposed. The HiLoMag guideways nationwide would operate at rated speed 24 hours a day without interruption: all acceleration and deceleration of the cars would be accomplished on automatic ramps. |