Dear MEL Topic Readers,
These futuristic pods could help cities solve their traffic problems
The ground surface of major cities is almost filled and always congested. In most cities, there is no room to build new train lines or add more bus routes. Digging underground tunnels for a subway is quite expensive, time-consuming, and environmentally burdensome. One solution is cable cars. It takes just poles and cables and can be built almost anywhere. However, all the cars in the cable line drive at the same, slow speed. Also, because it is structurally difficult to stop at stations along the way, cable cars aren’t so suitable for mass transportation. Another idea is building a monorail, like the one in Chengdu, China which was introduced in yesterday’s Vol.3382-7/15/2021, “Glass-bottomed panda train, ” It could work to link between two points but it is like a one-fits-all system, which doesn’t allow different groups of passengers to travel to different locations at a different speed. Now, there is a kind of hybrid concept that combines a cable car and monorail, but much more flexible. An electrically powered high-speed transportation pods, which are suspended from a steel track. Each pod can be custom-designed for a long-luxurious ride, a quick and short ride, or even cargo. With today’s AI and autonomous driving technologies, this pods system could help build a clean and green city transportation system over a busy city and even between cities.
Enjoy reading the article and learn about this high-tech pod that could be running in UAE in a few years.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/08/tech/usky-pod-sharjah-uae-spc-intl/index.html
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