What Does a Skytran Customer Buy?
TIME, TIME, TIME! (The most important commodity of modern human life)The customer buys time. And a customer who currently commutes one and one-half hours to work by automobile each way is currently spending a lot of time! Simply choosing to use SkyTran personal/mass transportation over a personal automobile saves a commuter significant personal time because of two simple reasons. Computerized Personal Chauffeur: In choosing to commute daily to and from work using SkyTran, customers buy the use of a computerized personal chauffeur to take them to their destinations. The commuter no longer has to be fully focused on the usual intense driving tasks. Automation unburdens commuters so they can totally relax, or perform productive work while enroute. Especially note that the commuter does not have to drive or catch a bus to get to a station to transfer to a train to get to work. The SkyTran system can be installed for such low costs that it can run all over a city for the cost of a single light rail line. In fact, the concept of intermodal transportation systems becomes obsolete instantly when a networked 3D SkyTran system is put in place. High Average Speeds: The commuter reduces commute time through high speed and more importantly high average speeds. An automobile is capable of legally cruising the roads at 65 mph, but in congested commuting conditions is lucky to average 35 mph. Today, an hour and a half commute by automobile may only involve a distance of 35 miles. A SkyTran would cover this same distance in 21 minutes. This is all because of the personalized steady 100 mph feature of the concept. Thus, not only is the commuter unburdened from the mental tasks and unproductive time involved in automobile commuting, but actual time enroute is greatly reduced. Three hours per day by car compared to 42 minutes total per day using SkyTran leaves an extra 2 1/4 hours available for work or for pleasure! This is an especially significant percentage when one estimates that there are only 4 or 5 hours left in a day after work and the commute. How much would people value an extra 50% added to their useful day at home?
SkyTran TYPE 2 Stations: Low cost modular SkyTran Stations (patents applied for) are critical to the expansion of the 3D network. These stations are ergonomically designed for very efficient unloading and loading. This TYPE 2 Station would be used for two way SkyTran traffic down a median strip. Earlier photos showed the more common and lowest cost TYPE 1 station intended for one way SkyTran traffic along and built in to existing public sidewalks.
Comparative Travel Times
Typical automobile in congested traffic
SkyTran
Time to travel 35 miles at peak of rush hour 1.5 Hours 21 minutes Percent of travel time 100% 23% Total time to and from work 3.0 hours = 180 minutes 42 minutes Daily total time saving 0 2 Hours 18 minutes
Lightweight TYPE 3 Station Modules: Utilizing low cost SkyTran station modules mounted directly to downtown buildings (patents applied for) means absolute minimum commute times, no weather concerns and no parking costs. Building owners who recognize the advantage of having their own local SkyTran station need invest little more than the two rooms required for the arrival and departure areas. Bolt-on, lightweight, minimum-cost, TYPE 3 SkyTran station modules can be installed in under a day by three men and a crane. No extra land is required and no weeks or months of time are consumed just to build a station.
