“SkyTran is a system of small, automated maglev capsules that run on elevated rails, and a working demonstration system is scheduled for completion in Tel Aviv at the end of 2016. SkyTran’s advances include very light two-person pods, which run suspended from a guideway not much bigger around than your leg. That rail is held up by supports about the size of telephone poles, with all the pieces built off-site for quick assembly. That speed helps make construction remarkably cheap—less than $10 million per mile, around 1/10th of the steadily-climbing cost of urban light rail. Some of that savings is simply because skyTran doesn’t need nearly as much right-of-way.”
http://fortune.com/2015/11/24/skytran-maglev-pod-system-tel-aviv/
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