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SwedeTrack System is a public Swedish company which has designed the FlyWay, a technically advanced system for automatically controlled beamcarried traffic, for transportation of people and goods.

This suspended rail system allegedly has many practical uses for the masses that must commute in cities flooded with cars from the urban sprawl.

To better understand the use of a FlyWay, the SwedeTrack people have provided some background insight:

SwedeTrack has in detail studied how a good transportation system for people and for goods should function, and what attributes it should have, in order to be of optimal use in an urban environmenet.

The cheapest and quickest way to produce a functioning system is by further development of the “SIPEM” system developed by Siemens in Germany. We at SwedeTrack have chosen to call this complete system of ours for “FLYWAY”

Since Siemens has chosen to no longer promote its own system, SwedeTrack has developed this by itself. Thus, FLYWAY is a genuinely Swedish project.

The details that distinguish “FLYWAY”® from other existing and proposed systems are:

• the beamcars can be equipped with lifts
• the beamcars can be equipped with swiveling functions
• the system is designed for scheduled transports, individual transports and transportation of goods, intermixed
• the system has computer-controlled functions that allow the size and complexity of the network to grow indefinitely
• the system uses addressing functions based on that of the Internet

Since February 2004, SwedeTrack System Inc. is a public company and offers shares (Swedish only) to interested parties.

The inventors of this engaging urban transportation system have also caught our attention with this statement: “To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” — in our view, when two distinct ideas meet for the first time, they inevitably give way to a third idea which is, by its very nature, something new.

On a lighter note, the term “FlyWay” is presented as a registered trademark but our search at the USPTO yielded no relevant results. Perhaps it’s registered in Sweden.

Tags: sweden, swedish flyway, swedetrack, suspended rail, mass transit, alternative transport, europe

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