Abstract Summary
Land-transportation can´t further meet its demands. Crowded highways, crowded cities, dangerous emissions, traffic accidents, delays, expensive railways. Solutions are being sought to transfer a large part of passengers- and especially freight-traffic to (high-speed) rail and to go electromobility, car-sharing, 5G-connectivity, autonomous ride, MaaS-transport-coordination, Hyperloop-type solutions. However, all these solutions have other problems and limitations. Solutions are not sought where they really exist - in the mutual adaptation of road and rail vehicles and their deep cooperation. ComplexTrans-project shows that simply adapting dimensions and functions of road and rail vehicles can eliminate (at least substantially reduce) all the problems of existing land transport, resulting in - ample parking space, - reduced traffic density in and outside of cities, - electric-vehicles with unlimited range and cheaper than standard cars, cheaper and easy affordable recharging of batteries, - pseudo autonomous ride, - transfer of intercity freight to rail, - replacing part of continental air-transport, - self-financing rail-transport, - deep cooperation with renewable energy resources sun and wind - significant reduction of energy consumption in transport, - independence of oil and a significant possibility for emissions reduction, - resistance to the transmission of communicable diseases - and many others. The main components of the ComplexTrans system are - high-speed trains (200 km/h) consisting of passenger-freight double-decker coaches and connected fast rail cargo cars - road transport modules for cargo or passengers - adapted cars with changed dimensions, design and functions and follow-up systems - passenger-freight (semi) rail/road terminals and support systems. Railways have been developing independently for more than 200 years, cars for more than 125 years. By combining road and rail transport into one transportation system, we can obtain an optimal land transport system that eliminates almost all of the problems of current transport better than other currently developed transport solutions. Based on new combination of existing technologies and infrastructure only.
