The People's Transport

Historically, settlements have sprung up along rivers, coasts (especially natural harbours), valleys and close to mines.  Canals, railways and highways later provided access to additional areas.

Atmostrack opens up new possibilities.  Atmostrack is quick to build using pre-engineered components.  It is cheaper and can traverse almost any terrain.  It is quiet and pollution free.

Atmostrack has additional advantages that will enable the next generation of built environments.  With the above ground configuration, Atmostrack can be covered with solar panels to produce electricity.  The track can also be a rain water collector with the water easily transported along the route.  Such water can be fast tracked for purification because it has not reached the ground and absorbed pesticides, herbicides, chemicals from dumps (legal and illegal) and so on.

Where Atmostrack power is associated with heat, as in geothermal, land fill methane, biomass or petroleum (as in the case of using turbofans to provide compressed air and vacuum), it offers exciting potential for business and industry.  Heat, electricity, fresh water, compressed air and vacuum will all be available at power nodes and these will enable new forms of food and goods production.

And, obviously but should be stated, Atmostrack will enable communications as well.

As Atmostrack progresses, we will use solar power and collected rainwater to generate hydrogen through electrolysis.  This will enable Atmostrack systems to use hydrogen to generate electricity after dark.  Surplus hydrogen will be sold as fuel for fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen or dual hydrogen/petrol powered vehicles.

While this is not quite a perpetual motion machine, it does narrow the gap!  It also opens up the possibility of providing complete overland transportation using only sunlight and rainwater for fuel.

The Atmostrack system can be configured with the drive below or above the vehicles.  This enables great flexibility.  For example, when vehicles enter buildings they can switch from lower connection to upper connection.  This will be useful in providing seamless access to large buildings or covered roads.  (The latter has real attraction.  Once roads for automobiles are taken out of the loop the design and placement of residential and commercial buildings can be re-thought.)

Conventional roads and railways share two common habits.  They put a division through an ecosystem, killing and maiming many animals in the process.  They achieve their purpose by piling on enough fill and gravel to get a foundation that doesn't move (or at least doesn't move too much or too often)

Atmostrack is capable of traversing almost any area of land without indulging in these habits.

There are distinct advantages to using Atmostrack to reach currently unsettled areas.  The above ground Atmostrack system is very much lighter than roads or railways.  Keep in mind that Atmostrack goes up and over and around rather than tunneling through.  Because Atmostrack has compressed air all along the route, this compressed air can be used for purposes additional to driving the vehicles.

So, for example, there is now the possibility of locating track support pylons on air suspension, using large air bags after the manner of commercial vehicle air bag suspensions but on a larger scale.  And by using lasers in the tubes along the track the air suspension would keep the track on the straight and narrow in all circumstances, possibly even through earthquakes.

The role of Atmostrack in retrofitting existing settlements and infrastructure can be significant.  Urban transportation can easily be integrated with inter-urban, with Atmostrack vehicles providing commuting and local services - all demand-driven via software.

ATMOSTRACK - the future of transport