Battery cars on superconducting magnetically levitated carriers--a commuting solution

摘要

Commuting to work in an urban-suburban environment is becoming an unpleasant time-wasting process. Costly freeways, light rail, and subways have not worked. We applied to this problem communication management, a system-engineering 'tool that produced an efficient telephone communications technology. The resulting best commuting option is magnetically levitated carriers of two-passenger, battery-powered, personally-owned local-travel cars. A commuter drives his car to a station, selects a destination, drives on a waiting carrier and enters an accelerating ramp. A central computer selects his optimum high-speed-trunk route, considering existing and forecast traffic, assigns him a travel slot, and orders subsequent switching-station actions. The commuter uses the expensive facilities for only a few minutes during each trip. His cost of travel on the superconducting magnetically levitated carriers and trunk lines could be less that 6 cents per mile.