The ITS Initiative Main Flaw

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Why is anyone trying to figure out how to make a car and a truck drive themselves after they are designed and built to be driven? I suppose the reason is that we already have the vehicles and the roads; but, has anyone considered developing and implementing a fully automated/autonomous personal transportation and freight delivery system using vehicles no one has to drive from the start? I did and submitted a U.S. Patent Application for it.


No other transportation system in use today can claim driverless door-to-door freight delivery but my proposal does. Same thing for personal transportation even if it is to a building floor several stories from the ground or from one building to another at any height. No need to go to a station then wait in line to get a PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) pod car that only takes you to another station. Vehicles are privately owned and passengers are expected to ride with the same comforts and amenities of a modern automobile. Once the vehicles start moving there's no need for them to stop until they reach their destination. When passengers leave their vehicles these can be sent anywhere on their own to pickup and transport other passengers or to a designated parking space then these can later be recalled using a cell phone. Is there a personal transportation system with vehicles that can travel bumper-to-bumper touching each other at a uniform constant speed during rush hour for optimal performance of the system? My proposal has them and when they do the system resembles a canning or a bottling line in full operation.


The proposed transportation system consists of vehicles that move on steel rails on their own propulsion using electric motors. Prior proposals that resemble features of my proposal are not a practical proposition for a fully automated freight delivery and personal transportation system, their main drawback being the vehicles guideway configuration. In my proposal there are no crossings along the tracks path and there's no need for track switches to route vehicles to its destination as each vehicle has a steering mechanism. Location markers and electronic signals in the tracks along with sensors in the vehicles allow a computer on board each vehicle to use navigation software to determine the exact position of the vehicle at any time and program the fastest way to a destination. The information is relayed to computers at a master control that identifies each vehicle then handles and monitors vehicular flow along the tracks networks or trackways. As each vehicle get their power from the tracks assembly there's no need to recharge them. A power meter and a relay device in each vehicle communicating with a processing center allows for automatic electronic transactions so that each vehicle owner can be charged to their account for power consumption, tolls and vehicle registration.


Considering that the proposed transportation system should have a significant influence in our daily lives and will allow for innovative changes in the architecture and design of our cities it is reasonable to expect that the implementation of a transportation system such as the one I envision could transform our way of life and the urban landscape in the XXI Century as the automobile did in the XX Century!

Tuesday, March 18, 2014


PROJECT PROPOSAL

For the Research & Development of an Automated Driverless

Personal and Freight Delivery Transportation System Alternative

to the Use of Cars and Freight Trucks - First Stage

December 2013


Proponent:  Alberto Zayas, Inventor and Designer, Principal, ITVTCORP
e-mail: albertozayas.itvtcorp@gmail.com


GO TO PROJECT

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

My proposal is a reliable, safe and efficient alternative to a car and a freight delivery truck that can really reduce traffic accidents and save lives. No Google self-driving car can accomplish that as long as we rely on cars moving on roads. Same thing if we want to reduce oil dependence yet still rely on cars moving on roads.

The advantages and benefits of the proposed transportation system are:

1-Is easy to build, setup and operate as a fully automated transportation system using conventional automation methods and equipment. 2-Is a reliable, safe and efficient alternative to a car and a freight delivery truck that can really reduce traffic accidents and save lives. 3-Allows people to go anywhere the tracks will take them using their own fully automated vehicle no one has to drive. 4-Allows delivery of all sorts of goods and merchandise anywhere along the tracks using vehicles no one has to drive. 5-Can transport a single passenger more efficiently than a car does as the passengers modules can be shaped ergonomically to transport only one passenger. 6-Can transport freight more efficiently than a delivery truck does as the freight modules and detachable cargo containers can be shaped in any form and size. 7-Requires less land than streets, highways and freeways when implemented reducing land encroachment. 8-Adapts easily to the existing urban outline. 9-Contributes less environmental pollution than cars and trucks do. 10-May help reduce oil dependence as the vehicles move using electric motors. 11-Allows children, older people and people with disabilities to provide their own personal transportation since no driving skills are needed to operate such vehicles. 12-Allows passengers to carry out other activities while they go from one place to another since there’s no need to drive such vehicles. 13-Allows vehicles to travel over flooded areas and obstacles including cars and pedestrians. 14-Allows vehicles to travel inside a building and into an office space or a living space several stories above the ground. 15-Allows vehicles to travel from one building to another at any height from the ground. 16-Enables a more comfortable ride for passengers than a car does in curved and inclined path stretches as the hanger used to suspend the passengers module from the propulsion dolly allows the module to swing out in curved track sections so as to diffuse the centrifugal force and to remain in a horizontal position when the dolly traverses inclined track sections. 17-Have the least moving parts subject to wear and tear when compared to other transportation systems proposals and most components are easily accessible for proper maintenance and repairs.

Monday, August 20, 2012

With the implementation of my transportation system proposal a dad or a mom will be able to place their kids in a fully automated/autonomous vehicle that will take them to school and that same vehicle can come back to take dad to work. At work he can send the vehicle back home so that his wife can use it. At the shopping mall she can send the vehicle to a specialized parking facility for such vehicles and she will later be able to recall it with her cell phone. Back home she will have the groceries she purchased on the Internet delivered to her from her favorite supermarket. Later that day grandma can send them a piece of pie she baked without ever having to leave her house. A day of our lives in the near future! Of course you can substitute the passengers as it fits to any particular situation!