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Payback:
- Affordable Access
- Not dependent on gas or gas prices
- Kids and elderly not restricted by
driving competence
- No waiting, available 24 x 7
- Focused on quality of the trip
- Automating Repetitive Travel
- Kids to school, sports, friends
- Shoppers to retail centers
- Commuters to work
- Reduces highway congestion
- Example map relative to calculations at
the lower right
- Red lines are distance markers not
routes
- Approximately 140 miles of rail
- Rails would be constructed in similar
areas
- Typical fare would be less than
driving and parking
- Access density will expand providing
greater payback and lower costs (Moore's Law applied to intelligent
devices)
- Image from maps.google.com
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Proposal Details
- Heathrow Airport, Buys a Network
- Princeton Study
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| There is a profit in saving
people time and money. |
| System Basics |
| Rail Path Length (km) |
11 |
| Average trip length (km) |
6 |
| Fare paying Vehicle
Trips/day |
25,000 |
| Deadhead Factor,
Non-paying / Paying |
0 |
| Vehicle Trips per day,
paying + non-paying |
33,333 |
| Peak Hour Percentage |
0 |
| Max trips per hour |
5,000 |
| Number of Stations |
35 |
| Number of Vehicles
Required |
1,127 |
| Vehicles out for
Maintenance, % |
0 |
| Vehicles out for
Maintenance |
68 |
| Average Speed, mph |
20 |
| Average Travel Time,
minutes |
12 |
| Average Unloading +
Loading Time, minutes |
1 |
| Average JPod Trip Cycle
Time, minutes |
13 |
| Max trips per JPod per
hour |
5 |
| Average Passenger Load |
1 |
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| Fare Vehicle Miles
traveled/day |
100,000 |
| Carbon Incentives, per day |
$ 321 |
| Advertising and Service
Revenues per day |
$ 24,000 |
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| Capital Costs |
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| System Cost |
$ 96,295,067 |
| System Cost less Loading
Station Placement Fees |
$ 67,406,547 |
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| Revenue Calculations |
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| Fare per Vehicle Mile |
$ 2.26 |
| Average Fare |
$ 5.60 |
| Average daily fare
receipts ($) |
$ 140,000 |
| Fare days per year |
365 |
| Operation &
Maintenance Rate @ % capital |
2% |
| Operation &
Maintenance |
$ 1,925,901 |
| Power duty (fraction time
on) |
0 |
| Average power use, each
vehicle, kW |
1 |
| Average power use, all
vehicles, kW |
620 |
| Annual power use, all
vehicles, kW-hr |
5,433,605 |
| Annual Power Use of
Stations, kW-hr |
613,620 |
| Annual Power Use of
Switches, kW-hr |
955,494 |
| Annual Power Cost @
$.15/kW-hr |
1,050,408 |
| Fare Receipts/year |
$ 51,100,000 |
| Power and Operating Costs |
$ 2,976,309 |
| Pre-Tax Profit |
$ 57,001,012 |
| Pre-Tax Profit as % of
Cost with Loading Station Placement Fees |
84.6% |
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| Summary |
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| System Cost less Loading
Station Placement Fees |
$ 67,406,547 |
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| Number of Stations |
35 |
| Rail Path Length (mi) |
7 |
| Fare paying Vehicle
Trips/day |
25,000 |
| Pretax Profits |
$ 57,001,012 |
| Operating Cost per Paying
Mile |
$ 0.13 |
| Average Fare |
$ 5.60 |
| Pre-Tax Profit as % of
Cost with Loading Station Placement Fees |
84.6% |
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