Individual rail transportation

1. Alternative Railway System
By Hugo Guimarães
Mechatronics Engineer
15/August/2014

2. Have you ever asked how to take
advantage of the lost potential of
the abandoned railways?

3. Why those railways have beem
abandoned in the first place?
• The passengers give up of the trains because:
– The availability of the service is low
– The schedules are fixed
– The time of travel is high due the low speed
• The rails companies give up of the business
because:
– The maintenance cost with infrastructure and trains
are heavy
– The energy consumption is high per passengers due
the low ocupacy tax
– The costs with workers are high

4. How to reverse the situation?
• From the user point of view
– Increase the availability of the services
– No Schedule
– Lower travel time - higher speed
• From the operator point of view:
– Reduction of the maintenance costs using lighter
vehicles
– Use electric traction rechargeable by solar energy
– Avoid the use of workers by using automated
solutions

5. The Solution is a Individual Rail Vehicle

6. Individual Rail Vehicle
• Advantages:
• 4 passengers capacity vehicle
• No schedule, always ready to depart
• Point to point transportation, no middle stops
• Low vehicle maintenance (electric traction)
• Low infrastructure maintenance (light vehicles)
• No power cost (solar energy)
• Automatic driven (central computer based on GPS
location)
• Using the existing rail infrastructure

7. Terminal A
Working example
Middle station Terminal B

8. 3D operation
http://youtu.be/xgBDESX8a0M

9. Individual rail vehicle is the “pizza”
of the mobility