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!

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!

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Hi, my name is Alberto Zayas and I submitted a U.S. Patent Application for a fully automated/autonomous freight delivery and personal transportation system as an alternative to the use of delivery trucks and cars as our primary surface transportation mode. My immediate goal is to setup a team to join me at ITVTCORP and get the attention of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), academic institutions, government policy makers and private investors about my proposal. You can be a TEAM MEMBER if you have the knowledge and skills to make the system work and a SPONSOR if you can provide the resources to have my proposal known. This is not a job offer but a chance to get involved with the implementation of an innovative transportation system from the start.

ABOUT ITVTCORP

ITVTCORP stands for Intelligent Track Vehicles & Trackways Corporation. As a company in its development stage most efforts are devoted to prove the concept, raise capital and establish the business. Once the system's implementation and commercialization short term goals are achieved ITVTCORP will stay committed to become an enduring enterprise doing business on a global scale and to play a leading role in automated freight delivery and personal transportation by making of the system's operating standards the norm worldwide and eventually make of the proposed transportation system our primary surface transportation choice.