Ron Swenson, Founder & CEO at Solar Skyways
It would mean a lot to us here at Solar Skyways if you could join us on our journey towards a more sustainable future. We are currently working on the development of innovative technology that, among other things, uses the power of the sun to create a cleaner and more environmentally friendly way of traveling. Get ready to...
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Our project
At Solar Skyways we are designing a system of self driving vehicles that run suspended from an elevated guideway powered by photovoltaic energy.
Some of the key features of this system are that it can be built quickly and on an attractive budget, that it can be adapted to different types of environments, not just urban ones, and that it is easy to expand. Our goal is to contribute to the reduction of car traffic by transporting people and goods along an at-grade route using photovoltaics and self-driving, zero-emission vehicles.
Solarskyways' main directives
Scalability
In the past, PRT systems consisted of a group of vehicles moving along a closed route that did not allow for expansion. Today, we can expand our routes into a network, which in turn can be connected to other similar networks, mainly because of our innovative control system.
Sustainability
Our control system enables efficient coordination of all vehicles, precise spacing between them and a smoother flow of traffic on the guideways. This efficiency allows the system to operate safely with minimal gaps between vehicles, maximizing passenger throughput while minimizing unnecessary gaps between vehicles, optimizing both guideway usage and energy consumption.
Safety
Safety is a major concern for any transportation system, especially one that involves autonomous vehicles. Therefore, both the design of the bogie and our control system must ensure a a mean time between unsafe failures in the order of 10 to the nineth hours.
We currently consist of a group of mechanical engineers, software engineers and industrial designers who are working on the purely operational aspects of the system.
We are conducting initial trial tests to confirm that our main control system is capable of sending instructions to our vehicles to achieve the expected effect.
Solarskyways' current tests
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