Using a SkyTran Offline Portal
© 1999 Brad T. Bowman/SkyTran Incorporated
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Maintaining a continuous flow of traffic requires a pair
of these modular SkyTran Offline Portals - an unloading module
and a loading module placed about 100 feet apart as shown in
this picture. This will enable us to always have an excess of
vehicles on hand in a dwell line. As one person is exiting
at the back of the line another can be boarding up front and
immediately be on his way. This eliminates waiting
for one person to exit and get out of the way in order to make
room for the next to board. The two events can be happening
simultaneously in two different places.
All unloading and boarding occurs
after exiting the main SkyTran freeway.
After exiting the high speed SkyTran freeway, the vehicle slows
down rapidly on the offline guideway, descends to the sidewalk
access level and stops at the Portal. Vehicles on the main
SkyTran freeway never slow down until it is time to either make
a 90 degree turn or exit to an Offline SkyTran
Portal at their desired final destination.
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