Travelling on a daily basis becomes a hectic and tiring affair, after 8 long hours of work. There are people who regularly spends more than two to three hours daily on account of commuting related to job. Now, there is a ray of hope for those people, as this newly invented transportation systems is supposed to cut down the overall time of travelling by moving faster and by eliminating the time wasted in traffic. This innovative system is supposed to run through the sky.
SkyTran is a self-driving monorail which has the capability to turn a 2-hour car travelling into a 10 min trip through the sky. The CEO of SkyTran, Jerry Sanders says that the transportation system shall hover 20ft above the road and shall travel at a speed of 155 miles per hour.
The first track will be launched in Lagos, Nigeria, by 2020. Lagos was considered for the first implementation because of its ever-growing population and worst traffic jams. Dough Malewick, an engineer at NASA Ames Research center, developed the transport system.
SkyTran is energy efficient. On reaching a threshold speed of 10mph, it can glide without any additional power. A machine will be used to learn about the requirement of pods. Pick up location and destination has to be entered by user on the SkyTran app to book a pod.
SkyTran station shall be built around the city and tracks shall run through universities and office buildings. Apartments and lobbies shall be used as the smaller stations. Cost of infrastructure is also not very high for a brilliant idea like this. The cost of pod ride shall be just slightly more than Lagos train.
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Author: Technology and Beyond
