Other Provision of the California initiative.

Combined referendum image gallery as quick overview . Check here what yielding lights for cars are all about. No more delays because of rubbernecking (slowing at accident sites) on passage of the Hallitube Initiative. Will you soon be able to see past SUVs? Have you ever been behind a bus that first stopped to disembark passenger and then a few feet later, stopped separately at a stop light ? Are you aware that there is a multi- billion dollar plan for a high-speed rail initiative which will not improve your commute ? Join us in the fight to allocate some of this money to increase your leisure time. Station-based live annunciator boards for buses as part of the initiative.Want to zip with your car through congested cities ? Support the referendum with its novel MOPs ! (Minimalist overpasses). Why Hallitubes reunite the blue and red states ? Totally new: Modification of traffic rules based on driver-age. Standardization and shortening of handling of street-proximal suicides and police chases, with funds for novel car-stopping techniques. Ever gotten stuck in a shopping mall parking lot at lunchtime with cars unable to exit ? Vote for us and you will get cheap microflyovers for sedans, allowing you to exit quickly. 

 

Tubes end directly in office buildings, and in dedicated homes in suburbs with a low cost, widely distributed endpoint-structure. Where there was previously only one suburban lightrail station to which users needed to commute, Hallitubes wind their way into each individual neighborhood. Carts are stored in stacking towers and on lawns, and you take off to work close to your own home, exiting at your own employer or a nearby firm. An apartment or condominium complex may store as few as 40 carts, so space is not a great issue. Below: Rider's view from inside the tube. Two features of this image are already outdated: the cables on the right fall away under use of the new low-weight electromotors, and we are actively looking at a non-rail design, where the cart is stablized by sidewheels. Non rail designs rise in value as the oil price rises, because the conversion of the cart to street use becomes cheaper. (Highway lanes get embedded powerlines (image) as traffic clears due to quadrupling prices.

Historical images - originally it was a pullwiredesign...like the SF cablecar by Hallidie. Competing/Augmenting Approaches

Flexcars.This is generally a good scheme, cars are used for $ 9 per hour and left in place, like a micro-term rental, such as Avis used to have in Chicago. These fleets need to be altered to contain more used than new cars: Enterprise will rent you new cars for $9.95 per day. An additional issue is that there is no car check in, or check out, so damage is difficult to attribute and has to be born by all users. Finally, road space is finite so even if there is more parking available due to not bringing in cars from a distance, the cars still fill grid space when in transit.

Inner city driving charges: In London, driving in the city carries a hefty charge. A good idea if safe, fast and comfortable alternate commuting systems are available.

Automated Highways: Here a lane is designated for use with vehicles that can sense distance from each other and are capable of automatic braking, steering and acceleration. In addition, even cars at the end of the queue are aware of obstacles encountered far in front of them. A good idea, but it does not add to gridspace as during the rushour highway lanes are already filled. Designating an existing lane is only efficent if modified cars are available to fill it. In our view, the modifications that have to be made to existing (used)automobiles to conform to automated highway standards are so complex as to make this unattractive, except for new vehicles. In addition to electronics, braking steering and acceleration will require significant add-on equippment. New polymer reinforced concretes might make elevated single lanes cheaper and lighter for sedans only, which would make them attractive. There are also merging issues, as a condensed queue transmits even
light braking as a car seeks to rejoin the regular highway.

U.Cinncinatti's minimobiles, electric cars for dual street use and carried by their tops on an conveyor. Good concept, but the site states that system could be installed on highway median. Due to overpasses this is not possible, this is a heavy system, it would require an amusement-parik-height structure to clear them, and medians disappear often. The system is too large to run besides the highway, the cars in the picture are the size of small sedans.

Gondola-suspended cabin-PRT. Works, but does not fit under overpasses, and therefore is not highway compatible. Hanging gondolas are large and require true station construction, heavy wind resistance and dropping of cable at lowest point between poles mean they could run only at about half the speed of Hallicarts, and design assumes heavy automation.

Regular cabin-based PRT: Many installed systems, we analyze the differences between us and them in some detail here. 

The new hybrids and power cells driven cars are all well and good, but the real issue is creating new roadspace. We are running out of grid.L

Links covering competing systems. Notice what they all have in common: Multi-passenger vehicles combined with expensive heavy support structures, waiting for vehicles, complex customized electronics , huge pricetags, and construction timeframe. Even if funds were infinite, these systems would not be thin and cheap enough to create a second-level tube structure winding into every neighborhood. Links to well-intentioned over-engineered solutions: http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/ http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/itrans2.htm http://www.atsltd.co.uk/ http://www.planning.unc.edu/program/trbdrt.pdf Greetings to you from Halliman