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General presentation of Fastransit maglev technology and potential applicationsTRANSCRIPT
Andrew W. Hayeswww.fastransitinc.com 1 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 1005New York, NY 10020 [email protected]
21st Century Transportation®
The Opportunity: The Most Energy-Efficient, Highest-Capacity
Transportation Infrastructure
Freight or passenger, local or long-distance
Fewest BTUs per ton-mile at any given speed
Packet switching = Highest capacity
Simple guideway = lowest capital cost
Strong patents, more IP in pipeline Prototype
Flatcar with truck trailer
Problem: We Cannot Build Enough Conventional Transportation
Can’t afford enough new capacity
Can’t find new rights of way
Can’t subsidize more mass transit
People prefer personal vehicles
Electric cars will still get stuck in traffic, and need to recharge
No long-distance electric trucks
Result: growing recognition of the need for new technologies
Solution: Retrofit Existing Rails and Roads with Permanent Magnets to
Create High-Speed “Electric Highway”
Low cost passive magnet guideway installs easily
Less energy: permanent levitation with no power
Maximum capacity: instant, electronic switching
Key: capture revenue from individual trucks and cars that now drive the highways
Background: Technology Patented by LaunchPoint Technologies
Established tech incubator focusing on electromagnetic systems
– 12 year track record
Permanent-levitation heart pump
– Magnetically-levitated impeller never touches the side of the chamber
Maglev power storage ring
IP licensed by Fastransit (more IP in pipeline will extend franchise)
Stabilized Permanent Magnets Create Permanent Levitation with No Power
Five foot vehicle levitating over a track for six years –using no power
Powerful neodymium-iron-boron magnets
“Halbach Array” focuses magnetic field on rails (safe, DC field above rails)
Constant levitation gap of 3-8 cm at all speeds
Vehicle magnets can be sized to lift different types of payloads,
all using the same rails
Low-Power Stabilization and Motor System Proved in Multiple Applications
Stabilizers center vehicle over rails at all times
Vehicle follows right or left rail at the switch –nothing moves in the rails
Onboard linear motor and instant switches allow individually routed cars on short headways
A highway, not a railroad
The copper windings are stabilizers; the coils in the center are actuators for the short-stator linear motor –and yes, the bogie pivots on curves
Second Successful Prototype Combines and Validates All Design Elements
Vehicle switches between inner and outer loop Pivoting bogies on vehicle allow sharp turns –
40’ vehicle can turn on city street corners Modular track design easy to scale up
Retrofit Guideway Installs Quickly, Costs Under $8 Million/Mile
Overlay or new rails alongside existing rails 2-meter gauge spans standard rail gauge Fits easily in existing rail tunnels, underpasses Can use existing third rail or onboard batteries
Can interoperate with steel wheel trainsMay cost less to install as overlay
Patented Design Is Fundamentally Superior to (and Costs Less than)
Other Maglev Systems
“Wrap-around” guideway systems:
– Slow, mechanical switches; expensive guideways
EMS (electromagnetic suspension) systems:
– Tiny levitation gap limits flexibility, increases costs
EDS (electrodynamic suspension) systems:
– Vehicles run on wheels at low speed => higher vehicle and guideway costs, complicated switching, more power
Supercooled EDS systems:
– Runs on wheels until 30 mph; expensive magnet cooler units
Combination of Features Can Redefine – and Dominate – Freight and
Passenger Transportation Markets
Much faster and much less expensive than rail or trucks
– Ports: one move from gantry crane to offramp near customer
Seamless urban/regional/high-speed inter-city rail networks
Faster personal vehicle travel on the “Electric Highway”
– Most trips up to 600 miles are made by personal vehicle; this is a huge market we can own
Sample Application: San Pedro Bay On-Dock Rail/Conveyor System
RFQ now, RFP by 2010
Phase I: drayage to ICTF –2M diesel truck moves/year
First step of system to the Inland Empire – Fastransit can continue on to Chicago
We can handle all port traffic on dual track guideway
No need for on-dock rail electrification
Sample Application:Stryker Brigade Movement
Proposed demo at Port Hueneme/Navy Base Ventura County
Strategic priority for DOD– Existing federal funding
– State funding also possible
Can start very quickly –port’s rails on Navy base
Validates port drayage application
Military equipment is often driven short distances from a railyard onto Navy ships, wasting time, money, and diesel
Pro Forma Costs: On-Dock Rail/ Freight Movement System
Capital Cost: $8MM/mi
– Magnets: <$3MM/mi
– Vehicles: $125K each
Operating Cost (avg. 60 mph): $0.03/mile
Capacity: 1 second headway per 2-TEU sleds = 7200 TEUs/hr = >60M TEUs/year/track
Can easily retrofit existing on-dock rail
Sample Application:New/Retrofitted Metro Lines
Incremental retrofit of existing steel-wheel routes
Light or heavy rail
Lighter guideway better for elevated grade crossings
Premium, on-demand transit service for off hours
A retrofit project that other maglev systems cannot do
Sample Application: Retro-Style Trolley/People-Mover
Comparable capex
– No need for concrete anchors in roadbed
– No catenary
– Lower operating cost
Much higher-value, higher-ridership service
– Smaller vehicles, flexible routing, faster throughput
– More frequent (on demand) service – higher value
– Inter-operable with other Fastransit modes
Pro Forma Costs:Mass Transit Retrofit
Capital Cost: $6-8MM/mi
– Magnets: <$3MM/mi
– Can use existing power distribution
– Vehicles: $1.5M each (current size)
Operating Cost: $0.03/veh. mi.
Capacity: peak >40,000 passengers/hr each direction
On-demand off-hour service The least expensive way to increase capacity
Sample Application:Airport Parking/Circulator Services
Sacramento, LAX planning new airport parking and people-movers
We are uniquely suited to offer integrated solution
– Airport parking is ideal application for SyncPark automated garages
Many other opportunities– Oakland, LaGuardia Sacramento Airport
Pro Forma Costs: Airport/People-Mover PRT System
Capital Cost: $5-$15MM/mi
– Magnets: $2/mi
– Elev. guideways: $5-$10MM
Vehicles: $100k
Operating Cost: $0.01/mi
Capacity: 14,400 passengers/track/hour
– 60 mph, 1 car/sec., 4 passengers/vehicle
PRT magnets cost less because they are sized to carry light passenger pods; they can also run on narrower-gauge tracks
Pro Forma Costs: Linear-Motor Automated Garages
Most space-efficient parking system
Low power: .5 kWh to store and retrieve
$20,000 per space
– Less than self-parking garage
Ideal complement to people-movers
SyncPark garage motor system licensed from MagneMotion, Inc.
Sample Application:I-710 Highway Congestion Mitigation
Currently being studied by Gateway Cities COG
Key: reducing diesel truck emissions
Dual guideway can move all trucks on flatcars
Alternative => more lanes => much more expensive
Future car-sled capability –the “Electric Highway”
Electric Highway Is Feasible Because it Offers Major Benefits for All
Public and Private Stakeholders
Replaces diesel trucks = less pollution, congestion
Lowers shipping costs = better for trucking cos.
Just-in-time deliveries = better for customers
Much lower highway maintenance costs
Much greater capacity A fast, zero-emission toll road
Faster, Cheaper, Greener: A Viable Business Model for a National
Transportation Network
One operating system for multiple markets segments
– Network economics will reinforce market dominance
Price at cost of self-driving:
– $1.50/mi for trucks
– $.20/mi for cars
Solves “battery problem” of electric cars, trucks All this can be
replaced by 4 lanes
Individually-Profitable Near-Term Projects Lead Up to the Proposed
National Network
2010: Demo in India
2011-12: Port drayage in CA, Middle East
2013: Shuttle on NY Subway, MTA, then
Northeast Corridor
Alameda Corridor, CA High-Speed Rail
The best way to significantly reduce car and truck miles is to offer a better alternative to gasoline vehicle driving
Our Future Network:
Partners, Team, Budget
Engineers/Project Managers: Parsons Brinckerhoff
– The leading railroad engineers in the world
Chassis/Controls: Multiple potential partners
Fastransit: decades of legal, finance, project work
LaunchPoint: 20+ staff, decades of experience
Legal: Nossaman LLP, top infrastructure counsel
Budget: $12.5MM for freight demo; $125MM total through 2014 for high-speed passenger rail
– Public funds leverage working capital 4:1
Thank You
Andrew W. Hayes
Fastransit Inc.
1 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 1005
New York, NY 10020
(212) 554-3125
www.fastransitinc.com