November 7, 2010

New and old pedal powered monorail handling systems, automatic

A Inhabitat post this week pointed out that Google is investing $ 1 million in Shweeb, a company working on a pedal powered monorail system. The company was selected as the "innovation in public transport winner" in the project 10100 program from Google, which aims to "change the world by help as many people as possible."

Shweeb has been working on this pedal powered monorail pods for a while now. The New Zealand based company was founded in 2006, and you may have seen images of their two 200-metre-long test tracks. The idea of a bicycle monorail system is already back even after 2006.

In 1892 was the Hotchkiss bicycle railways, invented by Arthur e. Hotchkiss, built of Mount Holly to Smithville in New Jersey. According to unusual pedal cycling, bike train was not a success, and the company filed for bankruptcy in 1898.Let's hope that with the infusion of money from Google, Shweeb may take longer than Hotchkiss did. it is certainly an idea that I would like to see implemented (again).

Posted in the commuter, Concept. tagged with Google, monorail, public transport, recumbent, Shweeb, transportation. By James T




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