News Stories
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GoTo 12/15/08 South Bay considering pod travel By Teresa Garcia SAN JOSE, CA (KGO) -- The future of big city mass transit may be a lot of tiny pods rather than giant trams - pods that you summon whenever you need them. Silicon Valley is considering building just such a system because it's both convenient and green.
GoTo 11/04/08 Housing Recovery's Best Hope: PodCars How PodCar deployment will increase home owner disposable income by $2,000 per year.
GoTo 09/20/08 Increase disposable income by $4,000 Increasing public transportation by 20% will increase the typical working family's disposable income by $2,000 per year. PodCars, like JPods, can implement this increase with out subsidies. Victory Gardens will add another $2,000 and Feed-in Tariffs will create self-reliant economic lifeboats.
GoTo 07/05/08 Gas Lines this Fall A review of inventory issues that have a high priority of causing gas lines this fall.
GoTo 07/05/08 Performance Governing Performance Governing; Getting Luck and Staying Lucky. Changing government's infrastructure roll from HOW it is built to setting standards of performance for WHAT is needed and allowing free markets to invent solutions. Government's roll from manaagement to leadership.
GoTo 07/02/08 Investing in PRT Personal Rapid Transit: Preempting the Need for Oil in Urban Transport   email length url
GoTo06/10/08 Performance StandardsDe-monopolize transportation and power generation infrastructure to allow ingenuity. Set a standard to Beat 100 mpg.
GoTo04/02/08Re-tooling TransportationNeed to re-tool transportation to increase efficiency. Railroads can move a ton 423 miles on a gallon of fuel. Yet in urban transport we use a gallon of fuel to move a person only 18 miles.
GoTo10/01/07Fire OilDetails of Risk with Oil as the monopoly mobility vendor
GoTo05/25/07TimeOnLineRoboTaxi
GoTo5/25/07Business 2.08 Years to Save the Earth
GoTo5/29/07eMagazineOil Crisis, Wrong Problem
GoTo5/29/07eMagazineChanging Life Blood of our economy from oil to ingenuity
GoTo9/29/06Fox 9 NewsGetting There, JPods
GoTo9/28/06Fox MorningJPods, Transportation of the Future
GoTo9/28/06IT-Corp'Beam me up Scotty'; not quite but closer
GoTo7/1/06 Four Corners Peak Oil
Movie Clips
GoToFox News Story JPods news story in Minneapolis
Supporting Documents
Web based TV Documentary on Peak Oil Very important and balanced presentation. It has taken 37 years to build the Internet to the current level of access. Building a Physical Internet, re-tool transportation to be independent of oil will likely take longer. It is critcal that we get started. By the most optimistic estimate Peak Oil will happen within 26 year.
2006 EU Study on PRT.pdf Very clear stated EU report on PRT
Patent_IT_Scan041102.pdf Scan of Patent 6,810,817
JPods_Com_061007e.pdf Group of JPods documents
ITCorp_060710_01_494sm.pdf Presentation to the 494 Corridor Commission
060530_Evacuation.pdf Evacuation concepts using congestion busting
LeanManufacturingTransit.pdf Just-in-time applies to the transporting process
gilbert_CA_GasPricePeakOil.pdf Canadian presentation on alternative energy sources
SenateLetterPRT1974.pdf Letter from the last oil crisis
morgantown_TRB_111504.pdf Mogantown background
economic_assessments.pdf Economics of PRT
060223_LtrAgreements_6.pdf Letters about implementing JPods
InnovPTS2_Swedish.pdf Study on alternative transportation
Ultra_clean_air_paper.pdf Air Quality
Ultra_trb05_airports.pdf Need at airports