"we have Dahir insaat at home" ass monorail
Cute little gadgetbahn I can't be too mad at since it's trying to minimize new infrastructure. It's basically just a PRT (ala Morgantown, WV). But the issue is the abandoned rails it wants to utilize are not going to be very useful routes for a PRT.
lots of abandoned rail is between still-connected towns, but the same reason they're abandoned in the first place would still apply because they're owned by the big rail monopolies. if anyone could've used them all along rural communities would've been utilizing them.
It's interesting... Maybe it will be cheaper than a people mover, but it'll be even less useful and probably much slower.
Some of this technology may sound a bit "over-ambitious," but keep in mind the project was inspired by a fully functional self-balancing monorail that mechanical engineer Louis Brennan designed and demonstrated back in the early 1900s.
Where did that bring you? Back to me.
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Counterproposal: There's communally owned Railbikes and if you come across somebody else you just switch bikes real quick
ok fine I like it, it's neat, this is the only good "not-trains public transit concept art" thing I've seen that isn't full bazinga-brain. Turning a single rail-line into a two-way street is cool.
because not everyone wants to wait for public transit or make a long drive, an increasing number of people are choosing to live in cities instead of the countryside.
Just to note here, I don't think that rings true. Germany is a very urbanized society by statistics, I mean it's just dense, the furthest point you can get from civilization is like a half hour walk or something, but it is also incredibly sprawled out for european standards because the government subsidizes the single family home in the suburbs quite heavily. "Countryside" in germany is being like 5km from the nearest city centers and there's only a few appartment blocks.
There is an incredible amount of unused, but useable, railways just laying about the countryside that this could work for, I have one near me and it would be a very, very good public transport option, but honestly, they should just reactivate the fucking train tracks there and run trains.
why self balancing?? lmao just make a tiny autonomous rail car that uses both rails. This is dumb. Though I will say sparsely used/rural lines are probably the least bad place to try on-demand type systems, since even if they succeed wildly they can't be a victim of their own success since there's only a small manageable population to pull riders from.
if it’s on one rail you could have them pass each other without needing to build a second set of tracks or relying on sidings to exist
The concept art shows both rails being used by a single car but still having the balancing problem. Worst of both worlds.
That's a little deployable arm that presumably allows it to travel faster. When it needs to pass, that can come up.
Oh God that's even worse. Guaranteed collisions via an unnecessary slow-moving part that is assumed to always function correctly.
Rail comes in pairs already so that you only have to build one engineered area, tunnel, bridge, etc. This is a bazinga idea.
if you read the article, the bar is a safety mechanism for the prototype/testing stage and would not be in place on the production run.
these test models are equipped with extendible "catching devices" that keep them from tipping over in the event of a mishap
Yes I read the article and that ambiguous language doesn't challenge what I said.
This is a really bad idea. The kind cooked up by academic transportation grifters looking to take a pile of money from the government to do a bad idea with the right buzzwords. This is how the bazinga industrial complex works.
