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Access to the public Right of Ways should be govern by Performance Standards of:
Traffic costs Americans about $1.7 trillion per year. :
About $1 trillion per year of costs can be recovered as value (customer savings and profitable revenue). Link to PowerPoint and KeyNote presentation. There is over a $trillion per of waste that can be converted to profits and customer savings by repeating in transportation the success of restoring communication infrastructure to free markets in 1982.
Business plans and calculations.
Injury Rates per Million
There are several regulatory frameworks in existence for carrying passengers:
Parasitic Energy Ratio
This is a very simplified way to measure the waste that can be turned into profits and customer savings.
Multiplying the applications of power (start-stops) times the kinetic energy of the moving mass divided by the payload mass the constants and velocity squared cancel to provide a relatively simplified formula.
Moving a two tons to move a person in repetitively start-stop traffic is very expensive, wasteful, and polluting
Data:
This is also a good way to understand the value of a gallon of gasoline. Steps:
Reducting the Parastic Mass of the vehicle the energy required is radically less than moving two tons to move a person in a car. In the following video a small girl pushes her mom and Judeth (74 years old) pushes two people in a JPods vehicle to show how little energy is required once the parasitic mass of the vehicle is removed.
Clever Uber youtube of the foolishness of moving people in two-ton boxes.
Ad from CSX shows what is known to be practical
Economic Work as measured by Costs per Passenger-mile
Two costs must be considered, those capitalized into the price of the actual transportation and those socialized into pollution and resource depletion against the welfare of Posterity. The following graph uses MassDOT data to compare cost per passenger-mile and pollution per passenger-mile for various modes of transportation. Charting Public Transit’s Decline
Net Energy: Economically useful energy per unit of energy required to obtain that energy. Oil used to be 100:1 but has depleted to 3:1. Solar is 25:1 for wind and 20:1 for photovoltaics. Very good 18 minute summary of Energy Economics. Candidates and policies that support improved Net Energy will create jobs from surplus energy.
Thomas Edison was correct when he observed in 1910 that:
"Sunshine is spread out thin and so is electricity. Perhaps they are the same, Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy.”
“Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.
“There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen...."
Food Metrics: A typical person needs about 2,000 food calories, or 2,000 kcal per day with little physical activity. This equates to 2.33 kWh or 1 megawatt-hour per year. People who are physically active it may be significantly higher (30 – 150% more).
Energy Consumption: The typical American uses 88.5 megaWatt-Hours of energy per year. Cutting all energy use 45% would put the average American at 48.7 megaWatt-Hours, or roughly the same as the 47.2 megaWatt-Hours used by the average German.
Economic Work: energy and transportation should thought of aspects of creating and delivering economic value. The physics definition of work is force applied to mass. The economy is a momentum artifact, a flywheel of labor applying energy to produce, store and distribute energy. Life requires energy. If I had a choice, money would be back by energy, not debt or gold.
Ref: "Is the technology off the shelf ready?"
The technology to power our lives within a solar budget are mundane. If you can ride vertically in an elevator, why should you not be able to go horizontally by similar mechanism? JPods are incredibly simple mechanics and clever software programming. You can see similar technologies:
Metrics for Sustainable Infrastructure are:
Disposable Energy: How much energy can people buy with their take-home-pay. How much energy can people afford to pursuit happiness? How much energy can labor buy to apply to building enonomic momentum.
Real Estate Consumption versus Green Space Recovery
Gas Prices as Unemployment Forecaster
US Oil Production As Metric of Economic Security
"Energy resources are the reserve account behind currency. The economy can grow as long as there is surplus affordable energy in that account." Art Berman
The energy behind the US dollar is depleting at the rate of 1 million barrel per day per year.
The Law of Supply and Demand has been clear since US Peak Oil in 1970. As US oil fields depleted gas prices ratched higher at an average of 7.3% per year, 14.1% since China and India became significant importers in 1998. Note that US Federal debt increased in tandem with oil imports. It is likely gas prices will jump much higher as the dollar loses its monopoly in the world oil-trade. China is to force the Saudis to start trading in the Yuan.
To change the energy behind their economies:
Changing the lifeblood of American from oil to ingenuity will create millions of jobs, save families a car payment per month. The risk in America is that the crisis of 2008 will repeat by between 2017 and 2020 as gas prices crush jobs. Since Peak Fracking in June 2015 the US has the equivalent of one 1973 Oil Embargo less energy. By 2017 this will be three. It will be a nightmare.
Steps to take:
Transportation has always been the catalyst for changing energy systems:
Paddle a canoe, build a water wheel.
Sail a boat, build a windmill.
Ride a horse, harness a horse to a plow.
Railroads in the 1860s allowed the extraction industries to scale from $100 a barrel for oil to $3.
JPods and other solar-powered mobility networks will result in displacing fossil fuels with solar.
It requires a 10x cost savings for people to change their habits. Luck for use, solar-powered mobility networks have cost savings of 10x (over cars) and 10x to 50x (over mass transit). People will vote for policies that increase jobs and save them a car payment per month.
As with the near century of rotary dial telephones under Federal monopoly, the barrier to transportation innovation is the unconstitutional Federal highway monopoly. Here is a 2006 Fox News story on the gargage quality JPods network.
Fox News Story JPods 2006, Garage Quality from Bill James on Vimeo.
https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/f...
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/livability/fact_sheets/transandhousing.cfm
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