SmartSkyways Now
For the Automated Guideway Transport industry                                                                            September 2003 
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SmartSkyways Family of Products

Type:   Monorail
Utility:  Cross Country


A single beam serving as a track for passenger or freight vehicles. In most cases rail is elevated, but monorails can also run at grade, below grade or in subway tunnels. Vehicles are either suspended from or straddle a guideway. Monorail carry 50 to 80 passengers up to 80mph

Type:   Skyrail
Utility:  Cross Country

$12.5 Million per mile
15 + passengers

This is an illustration of a 125+ mph or faster linehaul cruiser operating on elevated rail carrying 15 to 18 passengers. For maximum capacity several cruisers can be linked together into a train. To reach these high speeds, Linear Induction Motors (LIM) are utilized. The vehicle does not use the rail for traction but for ice crushing and stability. It can interface with light rail tracks.

Type:    Skyways
Utility:   Urban Circulation


$10 million per mile
4 to 6 passengers

SmartSkyways, is an example of a "privatization concept" for the business community to build and own a profit making infrastructure that will only grow more valuable every year. This vehicle is uses rubber tires and 100 hp electric motors to reduce noise and runs from 40 mph in neighborhood loops to 80 mph in larger metro area loops connecting to airports. It uses automated baggage handling in the rear.

Type:    SkyHawk
Utility:   Site Circulation


$5 Million per mile
4 passengers

SkyHawk features very light weight elevated steel tracks similar to modern roller coasters that can collect and distribute people around station stops at 20-35 mph . The vehicles can be the size of golf carts, can be open air and the cars can interconnect with the Skyways vehicles.

Type:    Auto Park Tram
Utility:   Parking Circulation


$1 million per mile
6 Passengers

GPS and buried cable navigation system of open air trams similar to golf carts. At each end this system links passengers from stations to their parked car door and/or to their destination at 10 mph

Type:     Trolley
Utility:    Retail Circulator


$4 Million per mile
60 passengers

This new trolley runs in the new The Grove, a new shopping and entertainment complex adjacent to the historic old Farmers Market Shopping Center in Los Angeles. It was designed, engineered and built by the Kent Bingham of the Skyways team