Skytran tel Aviv

SkyTran in Tel Aviv and Herzelia, often called " pod " stories, have been in the news for month.

Netanya to benefit from Future Oriented Transport System for Pods

According to the city's planning, a 600-metre-long line will be used by 2-person maglev trains to transport passengers from the train stations to their homes. Netanya, the town of Israel, is the next to board the skyTran project for the development of urban transport. SkyTran has authorized the building of a 600-meter-long line on which a two-person maglev train will carry passengers on call - supported by synthetic intelligentsia - between the Poleg Industrial Zone train and the Kiryat Nordau housing estate. skyTran's computer-controlled trains, which are up to 300 kilometres per hour fast, were designed at the NASA Ames Research Center in California and are being constructed by Israel Aerospace Industries.

SkyTran was first mentioned in 2012 and most recently in 2015, when the town of Herzliya announced a cooperation with skyTran. This magnetic rail system is intended to revolutionise shuttle travel in cities and suburbs quickly, safely, environmentally friendly and economically. There is no idea when skyTran will be marketable, although Globes says that the technological process will be finished before the end of this year.

SkyTran - HEALTH & SCIENCE - helps you think high up

A retrofuturistic view of the twenty-first hundred could see humans zipping from place to place in slim sleeves while a robot wizard was preparing a homemade dinner and an electrical hound wagging its tails in expectation of its possessor coming home. On the other side, the Skype pod is just around the corner, thanks to SkyTran, an innovating enterprise with ties to Israel that promises to improve the way local communities get from place to place.

SkyTran's envision is like a single railroad, but instead of having a train travel from stop to stop on an increased route through the town, instead humans can take single iPods from place to place. Rather than wait for a planned car, instead locals can conjure up a capsule if needed.

SkyTran, which works in collaboration with NASA, uses different types of magnetics. Dropping a solenoid onto an aluminium plate, a piece of non-magnetic material, drops it down just like that. However, when you turn a solenoid on its side, the aluminium slows down the falling of the solenoid "like molasses" because loosely attached electron interact with the solenoid.

SkyTran is able to move the magnetic upwards through a certain alignment of the solenoids with respect to the aluminium and to use the resistance of the magnetic against the aluminium to press the car upwards. The only thing he needs is a drive that he can achieve with a similar trick: he winds magnetic coils around a motor, puts them into an aluminium barrel, and when the engine turns, it forwards.

Sanders said the whole thing consumes about a third of the power consumed by a Prius hybride only. Sander says that SkyTran, kilometre by kilometre, will cover 1 per cent of the Shanghai Railway bill and about one tenth of the Tel Aviv Live Rail's present outlay. Trams usually run for about $70 million a kilometre, he said.

The Jerusalem Light Rail in Israel was 160 million dollars per kilometre ("God bless it"). The SkyTran only cost $6 million a mile. "Instead, you can make 10 SkyTran lines," said Sanders. Sure. "A lot of guys say that their technologies are different, but we do things that have never been done before, and we know that because when we apply for our patent there is essentially no previous arc," he added.

Rather than disassembling streets for a suburban railway or constructing new ones for automobiles and busses, SkyTran only needs a set of masts to connect railway yards, which can be accommodated on the road, on rooftops or even in large structures. The SkyTran has already entered into contracts in Nigeria, with major EU member states, and even with the United Arab Emirates (which Sanders said ignored the company's Israel connections).

"We are two years away from a mercantile system, and that's because we don't have a complete plant yet where the parts are produced," said Mr Sanders. She is currently working on tests for NASA and Israel Aerospace Industries. In Israel, she has blueprints for Netanya and Herzliya, although her Tel Aviv blueprints have suffered a setback and approval will take some while.

Of course it will be more complex in Israel," he said. Sky- Tran, if it can deliver on its promise, could indeed be a groundbreaking complement to Israel, for more than initially apparent grounds. At the end of July, an OECD survey found that Israel had the highest median transport densities among the 34 members of the group of industrialised countries.

In 2014, a Bank of Israel 2014 survey found that individuals use personal transportation about twice as much as mass transit, while a Treasury survey said that total per capita urban transportation investments in Israel were only 15 per cent of those in other major west European towns, Globes said. SkyTran, Sanders argued, would help Israel jump forward without necessitating the same fiscal investments.

"We are the only form of government bus that is viable, and we are actually very viable because our investment costs are so low," he said. Sander said it could help locals travel through their towns and help them get to other modes of urban transit, such as the rail. Drivers' lifeless automotive visionaries say they will make it simpler to form driving pools, cut down the amount of driving effort, find places to park, and generally cut the stress of commuting.

Sanders did not hesitate when asked about this potential customer. "This is the largest piece of crap ever put out to tender," he said. Road automobiles are road automobiles, he reasoned, whether they are computer-controlled, self-propelled, or electrically powered. In fact, research has shown that the construction of more streets suddenly results in more transport because Americans buy more automobiles.

"He went on, "The more streets you make, the more road you get. It would be better if there were means of transportation to help locals get to work quickly from remote areas. This could mitigate the intensive demands for centralized apartments and ultimately help to reduce the extravagant costs of living in Israel.

"SkyTran, I think, is an interesting, groundbreaking system, especially in Israel, because it's meant to be silent and electromagnetically powered, so it could be a possible midway between the battle between Haredi und Heloni for Sabbath traffic," he said. No, Sanders isn't affected.