Incorporated

Presents
The Transportation for Tomorrow, Today!

SkyTran™
Personal/Mass Transportation System

A Private Transportation System for the Public

This section discusses the economic implications of the SkyTran concept and the resulting benefits.  Basically, SkyTran has huge economic advantages because:

  • Lightweight personal monorail vehicles means comparatively lighter weight supporting structures and proportionally lower material costs.  Extremely low track cost per mile in turn means many more miles of monorail track can be erected for a given budget. 

  • Aerodynamically streamlined, small frontal area personalized vehicles means high speed capability at minimum energy costs (200 mile per gallon equivalent at a steady 100 mph).

  • Modern computer control systems more importantly means high through put capacity.  (One low cost SkyTran monorail lane can carry the equivalent of three freeway lanes of commuter traffic).

  • Magnetic Levitation and linear drive propulsion systems means no mechanical contact, or wearing of parts while traveling at 100 mph.  This in turn minimizes maintenance and associated operational expenses.  SkyTran has no internal combustion engines (hundreds of parts moving up, down and around in an environment of controlled explosions and high temperatures), no transmissions (gears in a bath of oil)  and no tires (rubber casings containing pressurized air that can be punctured).  What doesn't exist can't possibly wear out - ever! 

Any city that is currently considering spending huge sums on a new train, bus and light rail mass transportation system (that are all slightly improved derivatives of 1800's technologies) needs to carefully assess the economic benefits of SkyTran.  The new millenium deserves high speed, low capital cost, low operational cost, useful transportation for all.________________________________________________________________________________

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SkyTran Economics - Table of Contents
1 Preface
2 Introduction
3 SkyTran PODS
4 A commuter buys TIME!
5 SkyTran's secret is low cost
6 Operational plan
7 SkyTran instead of Light Rail
8 City wide, 3D SkyTran grids
9 SkyTran for stadium events
10 Multiple point SkyTran service
11 Intercity SkyTran routes
12 SkyTran's key personnel
13 Background of the SkyTran invention
14 SkyTran MagLev is simple
15 SkyTran summary
16 Long term SkyTran future
17 SkyTran intellectual property rights
18 $1 million per mile costs estimates
19 SkyTran structural posts

EMail Contacts at SkyTran Incorporated:
Douglas J. Malewicki Peter J. Wokwicz Robert M. Cotter
President/Chief Scientist CEO/Treasurer Senior VP of Marketing

Copyright ©1999 Douglas J. Malewicki, SkyTran Incorporated, Irvine, California 92604