Fastransit's Harbor Freight Animation

FASTRANSIT’s freight capacity will also revolutionize freight forwarding, by allowing specific containers to be offloaded onto individual flatcars that could then be sent directly to their destination on the freight interstate – again, no need to wait for a long trainload of containers to be loaded up one by one. This ability will vastly increase the throughput capacity at ports such as Los Angeles/Long Beach, where the Alameda rail corridor from the ports to inland freight terminals is quickly nearing capacity.

Fastransit's Freight Interstate

Using existing rail rights of way and space adjacent to, or within the median of, the existing interstate highway system, we can create a new, zero-emission, high-speed, “freight interstate” for long-distance freight transport without the need for massive land acquisition through eminent domain, using existing trailer-load freight distribution networks.

A Fastransit Truck Terminal on the Freight Interstate

The system will be designed to have a number of intermodal terminals along portions of the interstate highway system. For example, a local trucker could pick up a trailer from a point of origin south of Chicago destined for Secaucus, NJ, and would drive it to a nearby terminal along I-80. There the trucker would drive the trailer into a FASTRANSIT sled, unhook the tractor and drive off. Terminal operators would secure the trailer to the sled, close the end doors of the aerodynamic shell of the sled, and enter the destination into the sled’s electronic control system. The sled would then travel along Fastransit tracks in the I-80 ROW to a terminal in the New Jersey Meadowlands. There, terminal operators would drive the trailer off the sled to an interchange/holding area, where a local driver would pick it up using standard fifth-wheel operations and drive it to its destination in nearby Secaucus.