Solar Driven Molecular Transportation System For High Density / Heavy Traffic Areas

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Sustainable Infrastructure
Solar Driven
Molecular Transportation System
For High Density / Heavy Traffic Areas
The Physical Internet:
Solar Power Mobility Networks
Bill James +1 612.414.4211

2. Imagine:
• traveling anywhere in Mexico City (any city),
• anytime of day, seven days per week,
• non-stop,
• without traffic,
• without pollution,
• without noise,
• and, with a certainty of travel time.
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Cleaner, Faster, Safer, more Affordable™
https://vimeo.com/253859435
Newsflash:
• On Jan 17, 2018 JPods signed a contract and is
ramping to build a 9.2 km network in Shaxian, China.

3. JPods Networks are overhead rails from which ultralight vehicles
carry people and cargo on-demand, non-stop from origin to
destination. Solar collectors over the rails gather more energy
than is required to power the networks.
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JPods Networks
JPods demo,
Boston City Hall.
JPods payload 1-6 people,
up to 500 kg.

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Riding Experience
• JPods wait for people.
• Select any pod.
• Entering a pod, your phone,
fingerprint, or ticket tells the robot
vehicle your destination.
• The self-driving pod chauffeurs you
non-stop to your destination.
• Emergency redirect is available.
• Cleaner, faster, safer, affordable.
• Available 24x7
• No riding with strangers.
• No connections required.

5. JPods Networks
Shaxian Network Video

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Problem - Traffic
JPods Networks - Go where
you want, when you want, with
known travel time, 24x7.
JPods are 10x better:
•Per passenger-mile costs.
•On-time.
•Capacity.
•Real estate costs.
•Capital costs.
•ROI.
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Solution
Traffic congestion costs the
people of Mexico City:
•More than 50 hours of traffic
congestion/week.
•$5 billion/year in congestion.
•Mass transit is saturated and
has not solved congestion.

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Problem - Wasted Time
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Solution
• Batch process.
• People wait for trains and
buses.
• Transfers compound waste.
• Streaming process.
• JPods vehicles wait for
people.
• As people arrive, they
leave, no waiting.
• The network fills the queue
with empty vehicles.
• Greater capacity.
• More and smaller stations.

8. JPods On-demand versus Trains/Buses Batch Process
• Treat people as individuals and families.
• Just-in-Time (Six Sigma) have lower costs and higher quality.
• Vehicles swarm to meet anticipated demand.
• Occupied and unneeded (red & green) vehicles bypass stations.
• Adapt to the passenger's destination, get in any pod.
• Force people into batches with strangers.
• Mass Transit and Mass Production, batches,
have the same defects.
Trains and buses:
JPods:

9. JPods:
• On-demand, JPods
wait for passengers
instead of passengers
waiting for
trains/buses.
• Direct, no
connections.
• 24x7.
• Known travel time.
• Personal.
Any Time, On Time, Personal, Direct to Destination
New airport (NAICM) to Mexico City:
• Mass Transit: 55 minutes, schedule.
• Cars: 54 minutes, variable.
• JPods: 25 minutes, 24x7, no wait time.
Subway
Car
JPods’ Route-Time™ software
calculates travel times based on
customer demands.

10. Seat Capacity, Batch versus Streaming
Seat Capacity per Hour (not all seats are filled):
Seats per Vehicle Headway Seats per Hour
Bus 0-50, 50 used 5 mins 600
Light Rail 0-200, 200 used 10 mins 1200
Automobiles 1-6, 4 used 1-6 secs 4800
JPods 1-6, 4 used 3 secs 4800
JPods 1-6, 4 used 1 secs 14400
JPods 1-6, 4 used .5 secs 28800
JPods 1-6, 4 used .25 secs 57600
JPods capacity:
•5x cars.
•20x trains.
•40x buses.

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Savings per Passenger-mile
JPods cost per
passenger-mile:
•10x less than cars.
•25x less than trains.
•50x less than buses.

12. Real Estate Savings
JPods Real Estate Savings:
•50x cars and trucks.
JPods footprint is 1 meter2 every 30 meters.
Roads will not likely be removed. Images
illustrate relative real estate requirements for
equal carrying capacity.

13. JPods:
•Many more stations.
Greater Network Density
Prime Law of Networks:
Value increases exponentially based on
the number of interconnected nodes.
JPods network cross connecting three
existing subway lines with many more
stations. Freight capacity added.

14. Better Safety
Similar to JPods:
• Morgantown, WV Personal Rapid
Transit (PRT) network delivered
110 million injury-free passenger-
miles. In that same period, 1.7
million Americans died on roads.
• Theme park (ASTM-F24) injury-
rate is 0.2 per million. Roads have
a death-rate of 106 per million.

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Energy Self-reliance
JPods networks
gather more energy
than is required to
power the networks.
Patent pending energy
storage system.

16. Getting to Your Station
JPods Networks are a matrix of tracks and stations.
•Vehicles move on “traveling rails”.
•To stop, they exit the traveling rail
to enter stations.
•Switches in the vehicles control
travel.
Lab grade,
not commercial grade.

17. • JPods3D™
• RouteTime™
• JPods Network™
• WebClerk™
• Vehicles, robots, structures.
JPods Implementation
Tools

18. Similar JPods, Kiva orange robot networks operate in warehouses.
Between 2003-6 Kiva obtained $18.1 million in capital.
In 2012, Amazon bought Kiva for $775 million, a 40x ROI.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kiva-
systems
Return on Capital

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Solution
Thank you.
Let’s install JPods Networks in your community.
Engineering and financial details available on request.
Please contact
Alan Davis +52-1-415-151-3574