AIRTUBE-AIRROUTE
TWO NETWORKS ?!

WHY TWO SYSTEMS ?

In the beginning of the idea of a new transportation, there were imperatives :
-secure, not - pollutant, economic, and that would be employed .

This had therefore to be a transportation :

- without individual conduct (automatic), in height to avoid the other transportations, this for the security.
- a clean energy (solar, wind) silent , this for the pollution
- an economic energy ( natural source, efficient transformation, existent technology : wind),
(few losses of movement, transportation : few rubbing : isolated from air resistence : tube)
- employed = supple ( no schedules, no wait, everywhere, rapid) economic and sure.

So is born it an aerial tube network, in which displace modules at the same time that the air flow that powers them.(the air allows the suppleness of manoeuvres, the few usury of equipment, it is pneumatic)

A great distinction : what does one transport ? goods or travelers ?
For the transportation of travelers , the security makes that have for identical volumes, the price of infrastructures
is ten time this a transportation of goods. The traveler is demanding : the transportation has to be rapid and to bring it everywhere and without strain. The comfort (price of modules) , rapidity and security = exponential factor on the technology and the price. Rapid = no wait = no schedule = an extensive network, numerous modules = price raised.
The transportation of travelers is a transportation in "peaks" (rush hours) while the transportation of goods supports better the planning.
The transportation of goods asks for "volumes" and the "cost reduced" , where the necessity of minimal "dead-weight" proportion, from where a simple technology and simple propulsion.

The transportation of travelers, seen the price of infrastructures, will never be able to pay extensive networks as the transportation of goods. It will not be able therefore to go "everywhere" . Therefore it will be necessary "to integrate it" and to make some a intermodal-transportationl. It will be completed by other transportations.

The transportation of goods, to "change the life and the economy" has to profit from its relatively weak price to spread "everywhere" and thus to avoid a strong share of traveler transportation provoked by the transportation of goods.

Where has come the idea to create a system "a base network" of transportation of travelers, most extensive network possible (because the traveler will employ it only if it can "go everywhere") , that base network completed by other transportations(intermodal) that will allow effectively the traveler "to go everywhere" and this "rapidly" (it is not possible that for 2 hours of train, 160 km, we have to add 5 hours to our work-time) . To this base system of transportation of travelers would be added a base system of goods transportation , this to profit from common infrastructures.(from there the idea to use the existing railroad network)
FROM these base networks , "escape" extensions of the system of travelers (Airroute) to centers - cities, the industrial areas, etc... as well as escape ramifications of the system of goods transportation (Airtube) to the industrial areas, manufacturers, main axes, all concentrations of habitations and then isolated localities.
The principle is that the system Airroute is always "steady" by at least a tube Airtube. But Airtube ramifies more and goes everywhere.

Since the transportation of travelers is the type "peaks and rush hours", why not to profit, since often under-used , to employ it for the transportation of goods.

This would allow to limit the "volumes" of the Airtube network (diameter 60 cm) and therefore to decrease its cost price, and therefore to increase its ramification and therefore its extent and its suppleness.
Therefore Airroute transports travelers to a maximum of destinations in an "possible" investment, each time that the traveler trade allows it, Airroute transports goods in special modules( unit volumes of +/- 1 ton / 2 m³) .Airtube transports in continuous the "small volumes" allowing thus a net diminution of the traveler trade.

CAPACITIES -SEQUENTIAL -PARALLEL - SYSTEM

The "tube" imposes a "sequential" factor to the transportation.
The speed of the "modules and spheres"and the relative activation slowness of the "switchings" and "mechanisms of entry - exit" imposes a minimum-distance between two modules or spheres. Between two points of high debit(traffic) of the system (goods or travelers) , i.e. Paris - Brussels, it will be necessary not to split, triple ... tubes, but well to research an average term between the multiplication of tubes (to induce the parallelism and the simultaneity) and a limited network ramification (villages...). This is allowed by the "speed" and the relatively low investment. That will allow to spread rapidly the system and to avoid to induce portions of system sometimes under - employed.

SPEEDS

As in all systems of transportation, it is necessary to envisage for Airtube and Airroute, some sub-networks to different speeds (as hi-ways and other roads). The module leaving from the center of Brussels will travel to a "city-speed" , then outgoing of the city will take the "urban-network" more rapid, goes directly on the "great speed connection Brussels-Paris. In Paris, the scenario inverts before the traveler reaches its destination to the center of Paris.
More the speed of a network will be raised , at least there will be switching - entry -exit points for a given distance, thus a maximal density of modules - spheres, thus an increased "debit" between important points.

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