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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2000
John Kauffman, Canon City, CO (US);
Other;
Abstract
A novel transportation system enables passengers to travel at high speeds relative to automobile traffic, while permitting each passenger to individually select his destination, commence travel whenever a transporter is available, and travel with or without his own automobile. The transportation system includes a system of guideways connecting various stations, so that a passenger can travel from an origination station, across guideways, to a destination station of choice. Each guideway consists of parallel tracks supporting support magnets. Each transporter is capable of holding one or more passengers or a single vehicle, with or without passengers. The transporters have horizontally extending supports with transporter support magnets. The transporter support magnets are positioned above the support magnets of the guideways, and have a polarity the same as that of the guideway support magnets, so that the transporter support magnets effectively glide over the guideway support magnets as the transporter is propelled. Switching from one guideway to another is accomplished by extending or retracting the horizontally extending supports to cause the transporter support magnets to be re-positioned over support magnets of guideways with different width tracks, at intersections between guideways. The transporters can be designed in a variety of ways and equipped with numerous amenities.