A new kind of transport capable to accelerate up to 500 km/h exhibits at the trade fair InnoTrans 2018

A high-speed unibus (one of the new transportation modules of SkyWay string transport) is displayed to the public for the first time at the International transport exhibition Innotrans 2018 to be held at the Berlin Exhibition Center “Messe Berlin” on September 18-21. The Company-developer SkyWay Technologies Co. has created and introduces to the market rail transport systems based on the use of ultralight overpasses of a special design. The first models of SkyWay rolling stock – unibus and unibike – were presented at Innotrans 2016 and the developers have made great progress since then. This year the Company presents a completely new development – a high-speed unibus capable to accelerate up to 500 kilometers per hour.

High-speed unibus presentation: https://youtu.be/qhQp3yyxbuk

The novelty is a six-seat high-speed transport module having unique aerodynamic features close to the theoretical limit: its aerodynamic drag factor is Cx = 0.06. The design speed is 500 km/h with the energy consumption of 0.93 kg/100 passengers × km in fuel equivalent. At 100 km/h speed, this consumption rate is less than 0.1 kg/100 passengers × km. These figures will be a record for a minor high-speed wheeled vehicle.

SkyWay Technologies Co. will also present at Innotrans 2018 an eighteen-seat unicar, which has passed the full range of tests and certification, designed for urban passenger traffic at speed up to 150 km/h. This vehicle is equipped only with seats; it has an advanced level of comfort and safety. The unicar is the record holder by efficiency in its class: its energy consumption in fuel equivalent is 0.12 kg/100 passengers × km (at 100 km/h speed).

SkyWay is an innovative transport/infrastructure complex consisting of string-rail pre-stressed continuous overpasses, aerodynamic unmanned rail vehicles on steel wheels, an intelligent system of safety, control, power supply and communications, as well as a second-level infrastructure – stations, terminals, garages, turnout-switches, etc.

Cargo, urban and intercity high-speed SkyWay complexes have various modifications for cargo, passenger and freight-and-passenger transportation and will provide the through-put of up to 100 thousand passengers per hour for passenger traffic and up to 250 million tons of cargo per year for freight traffic. The speed of rail vehicles reaches 500 km/h on intercity routes and 150 km/h in the city.

SkyWay Technologies Co.
222838, Republic of Belarus, Minsk region, Pukhovichi district,
35 Novosyolki Rural Council, Zorny Shlyakh St. area, Maryina Gorka.

This release was published on openPR.