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Bishop Austrans
Austrans: automated urban transport
This technology uses a unique, self-steering bogie carrying lightweight vehicles on elevated or underground tracks. The tracks incorporate high-speed switches which, together with other patented features, allow for a new high capacity urban transport system. This system will deliver people faster than a car, at lower cost, with minimal air and noise pollution, and provide line capacities of approximately 10 000 people per hour, per direction.
Bishop Austrans is an automated people mover designed to provide commuters with an attractive, economical and safe alternative to the use of private cars and existing public transportation. Existing rolling stock in light and heavy rail systems employ what is known as "conicity steering", a system that has not changed since the invention of the steam locomotive. The Bishop Austrans uses a patented self-steering bogie which employs cylindrical wheels that are inclined on a dihedral angle.
The company's four core patents for the Austrans concept are based around the self-steering bogie, the grip wheel, the rail profile and the high speed track-switching mechanism, and have now all been lodged and passed internationally.
It uses steel wheels on a unique profile steel rail, both of which are rubber-isolated for quiet performance.
The Austrans transport alternative is a demand-responsive system where vehicles can be put into or taken out of service immediately if there is a sudden increase or decrease in passenger numbers.
In a report that was compiled by leading transport consultants to assess the viability of the Bishop Austrans system in Sydney's traffic-congested Warringah corridor, it was shown to have significant benefits. Sinclair Knight Merz said that the Austrans system would cost less to build, cost less to operate, and achieve greater environmental benefits than the heavy and light rail alternatives investigated by the New South Wales Government.
It has also been assessed to have the added benefit of generating significant financial return without government subsidies - something rare in transport systems around the world - and could be rapidly constructed.
Bishop Austrans is an automated people mover designed to provide commuters with an attractive, economical and safe alternative to the use of private cars and existing public transportation. Existing rolling stock in light and heavy rail systems employ what is known as "conicity steering", a system that has not changed since the invention of the steam locomotive. The Bishop Austrans uses a patented self-steering bogie which employs cylindrical wheels that are inclined on a dihedral angle.
The company's four core patents for the Austrans concept are based around the self-steering bogie, the grip wheel, the rail profile and the high speed track-switching mechanism, and have now all been lodged and passed internationally.
It uses steel wheels on a unique profile steel rail, both of which are rubber-isolated for quiet performance.
The Austrans transport alternative is a demand-responsive system where vehicles can be put into or taken out of service immediately if there is a sudden increase or decrease in passenger numbers.
In a report that was compiled by leading transport consultants to assess the viability of the Bishop Austrans system in Sydney's traffic-congested Warringah corridor, it was shown to have significant benefits. Sinclair Knight Merz said that the Austrans system would cost less to build, cost less to operate, and achieve greater environmental benefits than the heavy and light rail alternatives investigated by the New South Wales Government.
It has also been assessed to have the added benefit of generating significant financial return without government subsidies - something rare in transport systems around the world - and could be rapidly constructed.