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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
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