The synchrotrain® unites all the advantages of individual traffic on highways with the track guidance of the railway system. The result is an automatic public transportation system without any drivers where the rail tracks are controlling the direction. It is not necessary and possible to get ahead of another vehicle as all vehicles have the same speed of e.g. 200km/h. Passengers or goods having the same destination will order a vehicle for a specific station, board it and enter their destimation. If there is a start window (like with planes) they will be accelerated to the systems speed and then can be integrated into the fluent traffic either separately or as part of a small group. Through this invention it is also possbile to drop out of the traffic either individually or as small groups.

As there are different rail tracks widths throughout Europe you have to change trains or the speed has to decrease dramatically to adjust the track width. With this invention adjustments like these can be made at full speed.

Since within one city the stations have to be closer together than in the countryside the speed of the vehicles has to be lower there. To realize that there are specific tracks necessary for braking and accelerating.

All that is possible because there is a functional separation between carrying the load and the track guidance and the vehicles have at least one controllable axis. The steering is influenced by the mechanical scanning of the track through three independent, interchangeable scanning devices and is described under [Harte].