The People's Transport

We consider the UK as our example.

Roads are overcrowded.  Road accidents take thousands of lives every year, while maiming thousands more.  Costs to the National Health Service due to road accidents are huge.  The social cost is no less significant.

Trucks put pressure on road capacity.  Schedules become more and more difficult to maintain with consistency as roads get more and more plugged.  The nation's infrastructure does not support transportation systems that would motivate people to reduce passenger car use or over-the-road freight transport.

On the railway side, public confidence is very low and rail disruption costs business serious money because commuting employees do not have a consistent and economical means of transport.

Britain has no method of moving water around the country to equalize availability.  Parts of the country are sometimes short of water while other parts have too much.

Electricity is distributed via its own pylon routes with attendant (although denied) health problems.  Power is centrally generated in large facilities and transmitted inefficiently over large distances.

Mobile telephone companies put transmitters on school roofs, hide them in petrol station signs and generally put them anywhere they need them without consulting local people.

UK rail bridges are too low to permit piggyback transport of trailers.  This means that all truck freight has to go over the road.

Atmostrack can easily be installed above the middle of motorways.

Atmostrack can be quickly constructed, used for a time, and then just as easily be removed.  This might prove valuable for special events such as the 2012 Olympics.  With the small footprint of Atmostrack, there would be no scars left afterwards.

Here's how Atmostrack could change all this:

In replacing all existing rail lines and reinstating unused rail lines, Atmostrack would install precision cast concrete with tubes beneath the drive and plus and minus pressure tubes.  The lower level tubes would carry water, electricity, and fibre optic cable.  Along the line, telecommunication towers would be built.  Electricity would be generated by the sources described elsewhere:  solar, wind, tide, geothermal, biomass and turbofan.  Surplus electricity would be sold along the routes, thereby eliminating much of the current electrical pylons.

In greenfield installations, Atmostrack would run in ground effect on surfaces supported above ground by lightweight, small footprint towers.  The surfaces here would also be covered with solar panels doubling as rain water collectors.

With silent running 24/7 on Atmostrack, truck traffic could be eliminated from the roads except by special permit.  Trailers would be backed onto flatbed carriages near one city and moved immediately to destination city.  No large trailer storage yards would be required and no time and space devoted to building a long train prior to departure.  Online communications would give customers accurate real time information on the location and ETA of their trailers.  The low profile of Atmostrack would permit all this to happen without replacing or modifying Britain's picturesque bridges.  (Where any bridges are too low even for Atmostrack, we can easily go up and over)

With compressed air available throughout the system, new businesses will spring up along the routes using compressed air to drive manufacturing machines designed to run on this new source of power.

Trucks could be almost entirely removed from Britain's motorways.

Service can be restored to areas from which train service has been removed.

Drought can be eliminated.

New telecommunications companies and services can emerge.

Air Travel - the high speed city centre to city centre Atmostrack service at times matching air travel and at much lower cost will make most overland flights redundant. Air travel will be used only for very long distance and over water routes

And beyond Britain

Think what this means in terms of making our cities more livable and enjoyable.  Rapid, cheap, comfortable transportation between cities will enable entirely new approaches to city centre development, including the practical elimination of all cars and trucks.  (with goods delivery being achieved on small scale Atmostrack systems or by electric or hydrogen powered trucks and the integrated logistics Atmostrack will empower)

This will be true across the world.

ATMOSTRACK - the future of transport