Fastransit CEO Hayes to Speak at Green Tech

Andrew Hayes, FASTRANSIT's founder and Chief Executive Officer, will be one of the featured speakers at the AQMD Green Tech Connect Forum, to be held on August 3-4 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA. Joining a prestigious list of business leaders who are helping shape America's green industrial future, Hayes will share his thoughts on the future of transportation in the first session, entitled Off-Road, which is scheduled to take place on Monday, August 3 at 10:45 AM. For details about this exciting symposium, please visit www.greentechconnectforum.com.

Fastransit's GRT Vehicle up Close

Currently, urban mass transit consists of trains of multiple cars carrying up to several hundred passengers per train and running with headways of several minutes, at best. The requirement for each train to stop at each station along the way results in longer origin-to-destination transit times. Off-peak headways are considerably longer because of the equipment and labor inefficiencies at lower ridership densities.

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 Interchange

The freight interstate will also serve as the springboard for a high-speed inter-city passenger transit network. Such a new network would likely be a hybrid of existing inter-city rail facilities and the freight interstate lines, as the interstate routes run more directly between most cities than rail lines that were laid down over 100 years ago to follow the terrain.

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.