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California-based skyTran to build futuristic levitating public transit system in Israel
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/24/california-based-skytran-to-build-futuristic-levitating-public-transit-system-in-israel/California-based skyTran to build futuristic levitating public transit system in Israel
By Reuters
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:19 EDT
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – California-based skyTran has teamed up with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to construct the world’s first public pilot project for skyTran’s elevated transit network.
A number of skyTran projects are being planned globally, including in India and the United States, pending the success of the pilot in Israel.
The pilot will be a 400-500 meter (yard) loop built at IAI’s campus in central Israel and, if successful, will be followed by a commercial network in Tel Aviv in the coming years, skyTran CEO Jerry Sanders told Reuters, without disclosing the cost.
SkyTran is a rapid transit system in which lightweight two-person vehicles are suspended from elevated magnetic levitation tracks. The skyTran vehicles in the pilot will cruise at speeds of up to 70 km an hour but that will jump to 240 km an hour at the commercial phase, Sanders said.
