Edina Foundation: Big Carrot, Bigger Stick - JPods

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EdinaIt costs less to move lesswww.JPods.comInfrastructure and Operating Costs: Parasitic MassGreen line is a potential route.Green bars are 1/2 and 1 mile long.It costs a lot less to move a person than to movea ton. Yet most personal and public transportationmove at least a ton to move a person. This massis Parasitic Mass. It is the mass we pay to movethat is not cargo or passengers.Worse, every go/stop/go consumes energy to movethis Parasitic Mass.Moving a ton to move a person.Moving 3 tons tomove a person.Driving Parasitic Masstowards zero lowers operatingadn capital costsThe solution is simple. Move less and move it fromstart to destination without stops. That is whatJPods do; people are chauffeured from origin todestination on-demand.JPods infrastructure is so light weight that allaspects of cost are radically less than light rail.In a rail cost per kilometer comparison, Ottawacould have 200 km of JPods for the same cost as29 km of light rail.In most cases the entire JPod network can be privatelyfinanced with a payback of 3 to 10 years.Private funding will expand the number of JPods onany network.
EdinaIt costs less to move lesswww.JPods.comGreen line is a potential route.Green bars are 1/2 and 1 mile long.Process: Concepts Become RealityConnectedThe Wright Brothers did not start by inventing a 747.They implemented a concept that became a process.JPods implements the concept that it "costs less tomove less." There will be a running process to develop,deploy and profit by expanding that concept into asustainable future.
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