KYMickey
Adding EARS to Kentucky!
- Joined
- Sep 14, 1999
The system looks like it could have a promising future in many places including WDW: http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/23/smallbusiness/skytran-air-taxis/index.html?iid=surge-story-summary
If the costs in the article or even close to reality it sound like it could be quite cost-effective compared to many other alternatives. They are talking about $8 million/km which equals about $14 million or so per mile, significantly less than anything even in the realm of what's needed for monorails. The cost per vehicle is between $25,000 and $30,000 which is considerably cheaper even if you compare the number needed to transport the same repeatable as a single monorail train. It's also a much more flexible system.
It probably won't ever happen but it's any idea anyway.
If the costs in the article or even close to reality it sound like it could be quite cost-effective compared to many other alternatives. They are talking about $8 million/km which equals about $14 million or so per mile, significantly less than anything even in the realm of what's needed for monorails. The cost per vehicle is between $25,000 and $30,000 which is considerably cheaper even if you compare the number needed to transport the same repeatable as a single monorail train. It's also a much more flexible system.
It probably won't ever happen but it's any idea anyway.