Background of the SkyTran Invention
Malewicki's low cost, lightweight, high speed, SkyTran personal/mass transportation system concept was first conceived in a flash in 1990

Doug's company - AeroVisions, Inc. - was founded in 1974 and incorporated in 1980 for the purpose of developing, promoting and commercializing Douglas Malewicki's numerous inventions, many of which can be reviewed on his www.CanoSOARus.com Web site. The potential economic importance of this integrated transportation concept became even more apparent after scrutiny for technical fallacies. All subsequent structural, aerodynamic, performance and costs analysis merely continually affirmed the conclusions. After further consultations with software expert, Frank Baker, additional innovations specific to the transportation field became apparent. Shortly thereafter, the two filed for a USA utility patent. The concept was granted USA Patent #5,108,052 in 1992. In the ensuing years, the SkyTran system has gained continually increasing support from the scientific community, has appeared in mainstream periodicals, been presented at technical conventions, and thanks to the Internet has received interest in transportation circles all over the world. The time is ripe for the public to fully comprehend and support the superior commuting and economic advantages of a monorail SkyTran system.

A 1960's precursor to the SkyTran concept called PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) has lain dormant for a considerable time while awaiting low cost, powerful computers. In just the last few years, a quiet resurgence in the PRT industry has occurred, led by both government and private parties. There are currently over a dozen PRT systems being considered in the United States in spite of the fact that they are slow (on the order of 35 to 45 mph) and their track costs per mile is 6 to 10 times that of SkyTran.

We should also note that even though Americans only think of Disneyland when the word monorail comes up, that several hundred successful monorail systems are currently used daily all over the world. In over a century of operation with billions of passenger miles accumulated, there has only been one documented Monorail fatality (see data available at the informative www.monorails.org Web site) . By comparison in the USA, automobiles kill an average of 15 people for each billion vehicle miles traveled (42,000 annually). The implication is that if all surface traffic in the USA was replaced with three-dimensional monorail systems that the USA death rate would drop from 42,000 to 933 per year!

The main reason for this reduction comes right from current statistics that tell us that 70% of all collisions occur at surface street intersections. Air bags and sophisticated automobile collapsing structures are sad, expensive attempts to solve the inherent symptoms of a two dimensional surface street transportation system. Up above, in the SkyTran three dimensional suspended monorail guideway world there just is no cross traffic, pedestrians, children, animals, rain, ice or road debris to cause collisions in the first place. Trapping the vehicle to the guideway, also means derailments as a source of fatalities is simply impossible. It is much better to eliminate the "problem" than to spend millions and millions trying to solve the resulting "symptoms" of the "problem".

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