Forget about monorail, here's an alternative to expanding that system! Introducing aquarail...
Aquarail does not require any footprint on land, like light rail.
Aquarail does not require expensive viaducts, like monorail.
Aquarail uses its own exclusive rights of way, like monorail.
Aquarail runs submerged under water at the already existing canal systems.
Unlike boats, aquarail uses a fixed guideway and has super fast propulsion.
The guideway for aquarail runs under water, near the bottom. It contains water-proof electromagnets that serve multiple purposes: communication, power, and propulsion.
The vehicles look like donuts, with the guideway running through its center. The vehicles have long vertical pipes reaching to the surface for air ventilation. The vehicles use the guideway's magnetic field for communication and control, as well as for wireless electric charging to keep the onboard battery system always charged.
Under water jets on the back of the vehicles are electrically charged and shoot streams of jetting water (or air) to push a fast foward momentum, propelling the vehicles, which only know to follow the guideway, so steering is not necessary.
Breaking is achieved simply by clamping onto the guideway.
The system is automated and uses wi-fi and GPS for location location awareness.
Once at a station, the guideway would rise out of the water and a pully system will propel it until it need to go back into the canal and back under water.
Aquarail does not require any footprint on land, like light rail.
Aquarail does not require expensive viaducts, like monorail.
Aquarail uses its own exclusive rights of way, like monorail.
Aquarail runs submerged under water at the already existing canal systems.
Unlike boats, aquarail uses a fixed guideway and has super fast propulsion.
The guideway for aquarail runs under water, near the bottom. It contains water-proof electromagnets that serve multiple purposes: communication, power, and propulsion.
The vehicles look like donuts, with the guideway running through its center. The vehicles have long vertical pipes reaching to the surface for air ventilation. The vehicles use the guideway's magnetic field for communication and control, as well as for wireless electric charging to keep the onboard battery system always charged.
Under water jets on the back of the vehicles are electrically charged and shoot streams of jetting water (or air) to push a fast foward momentum, propelling the vehicles, which only know to follow the guideway, so steering is not necessary.
Breaking is achieved simply by clamping onto the guideway.
The system is automated and uses wi-fi and GPS for location location awareness.
Once at a station, the guideway would rise out of the water and a pully system will propel it until it need to go back into the canal and back under water.