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© 1999 Brad T. Bowman/SkyTran Incorporated
For clarity, the picture above does not show any cross traffic. North-South lines will be operating at 20 feet above the ground while East-West lines will be at 26 feet above the ground. There are no automobile-like 2 dimensional intersections where SkyTran vehicles could crash. The vehicles crossover each other with plenty of clearance by taking advantage of the 3rd dimension. No need to ever stop for perpendicular traffic and NO RED lights! Non-stop travel requires that SkyTran uses the 3rd dimension. |
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. |