ILLUSTRATION - Artistic Vision of monorail motor wheels designed by Pierre Couture in Las 1990s, from my previous book Driving without oil. (Drawing: Paul Berryman)
The author of this blog who has lived in France for two years know how the TGV are comfortable and faster than the plane for courses below 1000 km, if one takes into account the delays at airports and travel between airports and city centers.
However, the establishment of a TGV line costs about 15 million euros / km (15 M € / km) in France, or C $ 23 million / km. In Nordic countries like Canada, there must be seated deeper in the event of freezing and thawing, and the bill could rise to more than $ 30 million / km. The cost of a bullet train between Quebec City and Montreal (250 km) could exceed $ 7.5 billion. To recoup such infrastructure requires a high density of population, while In Canada, the populous towns are few and far between .
This problem of intercity rapid transit, Pierre Couture, the inventor of modern motor-wheel (with the Research Institute of Hydro-Quebec in 1994) has thought long and hard. It leads to a totally revolutionary concept. Judge for yourself.
To minimize the work of seat tracks which are resistant to frost, the solution proposed by Pierre Couture is to build a monorail ultralight, two-lane, whose structure is supported by simple columns ending in Y. Wagons autonomous suspended and powered by 16 motors, wheels, are capable of carrying sixty passengers and travel separated from each other at a speed of 250 km / h about . To avoid having to expropriate land for the lines, the rails are positioned between the two carriageways of motorways or along rights of way for train tracks . surfaces used on the ground are just a few square meters every sixty meters. For turns too tight, it would overflow slightly plots and skew spans. The wheels are equipped with rubber tires, they offer better traction than steel wheels of trains, which allows the monorail to climb the slopes of highways and overpasses span. The narrow span over which roll the wheel motors is covered and encompassed by a wall light enough slope so that the snow does not accumulate.
On second thought, this monorail light and fast motor-wheels, designed by Pierre Couture, would be very beneficial across the globe, not only in cold countries. Especially since the he cost infrastructure is at least 3 times lower than that of a TGV , given the low tillage, lack of expropriation and construction of structures in automated factory, 12 months a year! could put these monorails developed only with the money saved by introducing a line of 250 km, since this line would cost about $ 5 billion less than for a bullet train! Subsequently, the commercialization of this technology would quickly recover the investment.
These monorails would be light and fast also ideal for connecting downtowns to airports, or relieve bridges at rush hour, hanging rails for side structures of bridges. People who live in the south shore of St. Lawrence and who will work on the island of Montreal would appreciate such a service transit much less expensive than a subway under the River.
Advisory folks at Bombardier will see drop the aviation industry in the years ahead, and are also on trains, or other contractors. Be visionary ...
However, the establishment of a TGV line costs about 15 million euros / km (15 M € / km) in France, or C $ 23 million / km. In Nordic countries like Canada, there must be seated deeper in the event of freezing and thawing, and the bill could rise to more than $ 30 million / km. The cost of a bullet train between Quebec City and Montreal (250 km) could exceed $ 7.5 billion. To recoup such infrastructure requires a high density of population, while In Canada, the populous towns are few and far between .
This problem of intercity rapid transit, Pierre Couture, the inventor of modern motor-wheel (with the Research Institute of Hydro-Quebec in 1994) has thought long and hard. It leads to a totally revolutionary concept. Judge for yourself.
To minimize the work of seat tracks which are resistant to frost, the solution proposed by Pierre Couture is to build a monorail ultralight, two-lane, whose structure is supported by simple columns ending in Y. Wagons autonomous suspended and powered by 16 motors, wheels, are capable of carrying sixty passengers and travel separated from each other at a speed of 250 km / h about . To avoid having to expropriate land for the lines, the rails are positioned between the two carriageways of motorways or along rights of way for train tracks . surfaces used on the ground are just a few square meters every sixty meters. For turns too tight, it would overflow slightly plots and skew spans. The wheels are equipped with rubber tires, they offer better traction than steel wheels of trains, which allows the monorail to climb the slopes of highways and overpasses span. The narrow span over which roll the wheel motors is covered and encompassed by a wall light enough slope so that the snow does not accumulate.
On second thought, this monorail light and fast motor-wheels, designed by Pierre Couture, would be very beneficial across the globe, not only in cold countries. Especially since the he cost infrastructure is at least 3 times lower than that of a TGV , given the low tillage, lack of expropriation and construction of structures in automated factory, 12 months a year! could put these monorails developed only with the money saved by introducing a line of 250 km, since this line would cost about $ 5 billion less than for a bullet train! Subsequently, the commercialization of this technology would quickly recover the investment.
These monorails would be light and fast also ideal for connecting downtowns to airports, or relieve bridges at rush hour, hanging rails for side structures of bridges. People who live in the south shore of St. Lawrence and who will work on the island of Montreal would appreciate such a service transit much less expensive than a subway under the River.
Advisory folks at Bombardier will see drop the aviation industry in the years ahead, and are also on trains, or other contractors. Be visionary ...
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