[OKC] FW: Amazing Concept: Chinese Bullet Train

[Shauna Lawyer Struby]

>From colleagues at Alliance for Public Transportation, OKC … way cool concept. Watch the video after you read the concept as the video voiceover is in Chinese.

 

From: Joseph Mecham [mailto:jsmecham at cox.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6:47 PM
To: apt_general_membership at okapt.org
Subject: Fwd: Amazing Concept: Chinese Bullet Train

 

To The Membership of the APT:

 

The forwarded message and video is from one of the APT's members. This is indeed and interesting concept. Please send all comments to "Kobe" <okjmc at sbcglobal.net>.

 

Thank you, 

Joe Mecham

APT Webmaster

 

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From: "Kobe" <okjmc at sbcglobal.net>

Date: June 22, 2010 8:14:00 AM CDT

To: "Joseph Mecham" <jsmecham at cox.net>

Subject: Fw: Amazing Concept: Chinese Bullet Train

 

Those interested in public transit should find this article and video exciting.  Perhaps you could see that it gets distributed.

Kobe


 

 


I thought this was a brilliant idea!


Watch  the video after you read the following. 
PURE GENIUS- The train that  never
 stops at a  station, but picks up and drops off passengers.
Passengers get  on and off the bullet  train but it does not stop. No time is  wasted. The train is moving all  the time.  If there are 30 stations between   Beijing  and Guangzhou, just  stopping and accelerating again at each  station will waste  energy and time.
A mere 5 min stop per  station will result in a total loss  of 5 min x 30 stations or,  2.5 hours of travel  time! The Chinese  are innovative enough to come up  with a non-stopping train. When the train  arrives at a station, it will never stops.
The passengers at a station load into to a connector cabin long before the train arrives  at the station.  When the train arrives it just slows down to pick  up the connector cabin which will  be moved onto the roof at the front of the train.
While the train is travelling  away from the station, the new passengers will board the  train from the  connector cabin mounted on the train's roof. 

After  fully  unloading all of the passengers, the connector cabin will be moved to the roof at the back of the train.  Passengers who want to depart at the next station will board the connector cabin located at the rear. When the train  arrives at the next station, it simply drops the connector cabin at the  station, leaving the departing passengers behind. The offboarding  passengers can disembark at their leisure, while the train moves on. Simultaneously, a connector cabin, housing onboarding passengers, is placed on the roof at the front of the train. 

At each station, the train drops off one  connector cabin on the  rear  roof, and loads a new connector cabin to the roof at the front of the train. 

 

"Time spent with cats is never wasted." 

 

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