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This invention’s advantage is the dramatic reduction of stop and wait periods as well as energy costs. Due to the principle, similar to the conventional trains, the vehicles can work without crush-collapsible zones, airbags, protection structure and a security passenger compartment which saves energy and costs enormously.The single vehicle is only slowed down or accelerated when it is being loaded or unloaded. Besides that it weighs a lot less than similar automobiles. That lowers energy costs too. The driving motors can be individually optimized for a constant number of revolutions depending on the load to be carried per vehicle. They just have to compensate load change through wind. Accelerations which are only needed within the area of stations or higher pressures at slopes can be balanced with the help of external linear motors. Therefore the vehicles can do without heavier control gears. The energy from slowing down which is also only necessary in stations or at slopes can be stored as potential energy and/or made available for starting vehicles respectively the oncoming traffic. Thus, there are no periods of halting, accelerating or slowing down. The synchrotrain is similar to today’s Sprinter. The difference is that the synchrotrain approaches every destination within the network without any halts as far as the main-land reaches. Since the length of the trains is not restricted due to the direct drives of every vehicle the tracks’ capacities are better used. The investment costs for a new individual means of traffic could not be lower as there are no new tracks to be build.
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Last Updated ( Dienstag, 17 Juli 2007 )
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