Dual Use of Electric Utility Rights Of Way By Integration of an Urban Maglev Container Corridor and Gas Insulated Transmission Lines

摘要

Presently, goods movement by truck and rail through cities produces both crippling traffic congestion and significant health risks due to diesel particulate emissions. Container movement using electrically driven, magnetically levitated carriages (Maglev technology) has been shown to be a realistic approach to goods movement in congested urban areas such as the Los Angeles basin. While this high-throughput, clean technology has a smaller physical footprint than road or rail; it still must compete with these modes of transportation for limited rights of way through the Los Angeles basin for national distribution of port cargo. While freeway expansion (addition of truck lanes, etc.) is one solution for expanding goods movement corridors, this option is usually not acceptable to communities adjacent to freeways for reasons, including the potential infringement upon the commercial tax base. A more attractive solution is to allow existing electric utility rights of way to support electrically driven alternative goods movement technology, such as that provided by a Maglev technology.