We propose principally new,
tecknically approved, patented in a number of countries
String Transport
System (STS),
which is a special electromobil,
the wheels of which move by the special current-holding, rails-strings.
Short Summery
String elements in the construction are
taut till the summar strain of 200-500 tones and are stretched to the total
strain of 100...500 tons and rigidly secured to anchored supports placed
with the step of 0.5...5 km. Except this, the transport line, having two
rails, is upheld in spans by intermediate supports with the step of 20...100
m. depending upon the relief.
The STS route structure requires little
materials. For example, the consumption of materials for the one-way route
will be within the limits of 50...100 kg/m and this is equal to the quantity
of material for a one standart rail of the common railway.
Vehicles will easily achieve the speed
of 300...500 km/h due to the high directness of the rail-string (it has
no deflections and joints along its length) and its dynamic rigidity, that
is ensured by both constructional decisions and technological techniques.
The electric engine with the power of
100 kW will provide the speed of 300...350 km/h for a ten-seat vehicle;
the power of 200 kW - 400 km/h, of 300 kW - 500 km/h.
STS has a high carrying capacity: up to
500 thousend passengers a day or up to 500 thousend tones of cargo per
day.
Main advantages
of the wide usage of STS
1. Planetary ecology
- 1.1 The consumption of the non-refillable
resurses (oil, coal gas, metal ores, non-ore materials) will decrease due
to:
- the STS route structure requires little
materials;
- no digs, embankments, bridges, viadusc
and other facilities requiring large amounts of the resurces are needed;
- 1.2. The environmental pollution wiil
decrease due to:
- usage of the most clean type of energy
- electrical;
- low level of the energy consumption per
unit (5-6 times lover in comparison with am automobile);
- accurate development of vulnerable ecosystems
(thundra, jungles, swamped areas…);
- possibility of using the ecologically
clean alternative power production sources (wind, sun, etc.).
- 1.3. The utilisation of the arable lands
will be decreased because very small areas will be needed for the construction
of the string tracks (less then 0.1 hectare/km, the same as for a walking
path or a trail), at tlie same time it does not need embankments, tunnels,
bridges or conduits, there is no need in cutting trees and demolition of
buildings.
2. Economy
- 2.1. The long-term employment of the financial
resources for the construction will be decreased because of:
- low capital capacity of STS (the value
of the finished tracks of STS will be about 1-2 US$ millions/km against
10-15 US$ for the high-speed railway);
- fast repayment of the money spent (5-8)
years;
- 2.2. The price of the transport service
will decrease and its safety, comfort and security will encrease;
- 2.3. Integrational and co-operational
processes in the economy and between them will become faster and stronger;
- 2.4. There will be no need in building
of separate elestric and communicational lines (including optical) because
they can aesily be combined with the STS track;
- 2.5. The opportunity for the creation
of global high-speed STS infrastructure in the short terms (10-15 years)
will appear, this must create multiplicatory effect for the other brunches
of industry.
3. Society
- 3.1. The communicativity wil rise;
- 3.2. Will be provided the responsibility
of:
- using the remote employment opportunities
without changing tha place of living;
- creation of the steady habitable zones
in the borders of the footwalk reachibility of STS;
- non-interfering with the normal life and
habits of people in the sphere of transport services (i.e. possibility
of moving to a remote location with a personal authomobile for an affordable
price);
- 3.3. Transportation using the STS transport
module as a personal car at lower costs will individualise.
- 3.4. Accidentivity of the other transportation
sources will decrease due to carrying of the part of the passengers and
cargo by STS (every year about 200000 people die and more then 1 mln. become
invalids on the highways only);
- 3.5. Protection of the transport-energetical
system and the systems of communications against natural disasters and
acts of terror thanks to the intensity of the elements of operations and
controle of STS.
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STS
will pay a great merit in the development of the new, more safe and united
world.
By its range and sence
STS can be compared with the develompent of the contemporary INTERNET network
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