AIRTUBE ???

AIRTUBE is a network of goods transportation (parcel, mail, various products...). AIRTUBE is a very dense network of tubes in polymer. In these tubes circulate air powered double spheres. Each sphere can transport 80 kgs. The internal sphere is perfectly stable. Each sphere hold its identification, source, destination and characteristics.

WHY AIRTUBE?

- ECONOMIC (few energy)
- RAPID (no intermediate stops)
- SILENT (of mechanics)
- NO POLLUTANT (pneumatic)
- REDUCED ROAD TRANSPORTATION AND ITS DISADVANTAGES
(bottlenecks, congestion of roads, stress, fatigue)
- CAN BE WIDENED TO WILL IN THE COUNTRY
(difficult access places, villages isolated)
- GOODS AND VALUE MOBILITY
(parcel, urgent medicines, transportation of fund)
- DON'T REDUCE The PUBLIC SPACE (circulates in height)
- FUNCTIONS 24 / 24 H, 7 / 7 days
- SECURITY (confidentiality and discretion, identification of the parcel,
sender, addressee)

WHAT ARE INFRASTRUCTURES USED BY AIRTUBE?

- Those of the RAIL
- Those of ROAD WAYS
- Those of WATERWAYS
- UNLIMITED infrastructures (National and International)

UNTIL WHERE CAN GO AIRTUBE?

1.- SNCB (Belgian railway : 3000 km - In all stations + / - 700)
2 - industrial zones
3 - shopping malls
4 - Cities
5 - Administrative Centers
6 - Hospitals
7 - important Sites
8 - Villages
9 - Quarters
10 - Streets
11 - Domiciles

AIRTUBE possesses many favor. It integrates perfectly in socio-economic and ecocological concepts. More, it guarantees the security and the confidentiality.

IMAGINE. .. IMAGINE. .. IMAGINE. ..

- INDUSTRIAL ZONINGS -

Imagine AIRTUBE geting in the heart of an enterprise (arrival and expedition tube ,and wait for loadings / unload).Via Internet or by telephoning the user orders in function of the weight, volume and characteristics, the number of necessary bubbles for its deliveries of goods. As soon as bubbles arrive in its enterprise or to the expected place the user 'injected' them and dispatches them at the addressee.
Thanks to Internet, the user knows exactly the time that puts its delivery to arrive at the client and can thereby the to inform some. The client can equally follow via Internet the progression of its parcel.
The enterprise can possess its clean bubbles (rental, purchase. ..) adapted to products transported.
Each bubble comprises its own identification. It possesses indispensable data (name, designation, nature of the merchandise, etc. ..).

AIRTUBE offers the advantage to be reliable, mobile, without constraint of
schedules, and fast. ..

- SHOPPING MALLS -

Imagine a system of tubes installed inside / exterior of buildings in a small place destined for deliveries / expeditions and wait for loadings and unloadings. The user, via Internet or by telephone, orders its bubble (s) in function of goods that he has to dispatch (weight, volume and characteristics).
It will dispatch bubbles:
- to the SNCB that will store the parcel s until the arrival from the client,
- or that will deliver it directly at the client (electrical car)
- or at a merchant domicileed in the quarter of its client. (in deposit) (delivery)
- or at an individual that accepts to make a service "deposit / delivery" at
it, in return for remuneration.

AIRTUBE offers the advantage to be fast. The client has no longer had waited several days to obtain satisfaction. It can be delivered in the hour that follows. In the case that the merchant has not the article in stock: he passes order via Internet or by telephone to its supplier that will send the article at the client
or to the service "deposit" designated.

- CITY -

Imagine that a tube placed to height of houses or underground crosses the city until its center (Great - Place). We can use for the reception / expedition of parcels, a place, that can be been a small trade (against
remuneration). .. or even. .. the Townhall itself! . The designated person receives parcels, places them in deposit until their removal and can propose a delivery service. ..
AIRTUBE offers the advantage to reduce the circulation in city, the pollution, risks of accidents, robbery. .. The city will be equipped of several AIRTUBE centers and whoever will have no matter to dispatch / to receive parcels in either one of these centers.

- ADMINISTRATIVE CENTERS -

- Imagine each Ministry / Embassy equipped a local containing a tube serving to the expedition / reception of the different goods .. Via Internet, each Ministry / Embassy orders the number of bubbles whose it (it) needs.
AIRTUBE offers the advantage of a complete security. Via Internet, the time that puts the bubble to arrive to destination. is known.

- HOSPITALS -

- Imagine in each equipped hospital a place for expeditions / receptions of medicines or others. ..
Via Internet or by telephone, several bubbles can be ordered for important deliveries. Via Internet or by telephone, hospitals communicate between - them periods of delivery / reception.
AIRTUBE possesses the advantage to be very fast. Its internal sphere being perfectly stable, the transportation of organs for example, would not in suffer absolutely! .

- VILLAGES -

- Imagine that the tube arrives to the entry of the village or to the heart of the village. It can be placed at a merchant (hangar, garage, etc. ..), an individual (hangar, garage), in a place of the TownHall. The designated person wouldreceive / would dispatch parcels and would practice the service "deposit" .
The former can equally propose a service "orders" whose it would have the cost. (contacts with the merchant via Internet or by telephone, delivery). A service "deliveries at home" can be envisaged.
AIRTUBE is particularly substantial in this case. It allows to comes out theisolation of the small villages, hamlets, very difficult of access in bad season. .. (medicines, fresh food, etc. ..). It provokes indispensable
human contacts to the isolated (points of encounter).

- QUARTERS - STREETS -

Imagine a tube that arrives to a precise place, in beginning or in fine of street, in a quarter / determined street . A small trade possessing a local is committed, against remuneration, to insure a service "deposit" at it. It receives parcels and stocks them until removal by the client.
This person can propose a service "Orders" to clients (contacts with the merchant designated via Internet or by telephone, delivery) and also envisage a service "deliveries at home" . ..
AIRTUBE reduced the fatigue, the stress, the pollution that provoke displacement in car. It facilitates the life to these and those that do not know to displace or use Internet (elderly, handicapped, etc. ..) or more simply, too occupied.

- DOMICILES -

Imagine that in a close future, each house, each building, have AIRTUBE. How? : AIRTUBE would become underground in this case. In an expected place to the garage, to the cellar, inside the house of garden, parcels would arrive and leave. ..

AIRTUBE thanks to its great mobility, offers a total liberty by coming at "domicile"and provokes A radical SOCIETY CHANGE.

AIRTUBE opens all possibilities of work at home. ..

HERE, AIRTUBE, MERIT FULLY THE NAME OF "TRANSPORTATION COMPLEMENT OF THE INFORMATION HIGHWAYS"