Cars, bikes and taxis
- +Private, seated, flexible
- +Comfortable and direct
- –Congestion
- –Poor energy use
- –High public and private cost
- –Accidents and emissions
- Not a solution
Technology
How a city moves at 100 km/h.
The question is not only whether the problems can be named. It is how a system can take the advantages of the car and of mass transit, drop the disadvantages of both, and add something neither offers: nonstop, private, seated travel at about 100 km/h average in a city.
The breakthrough: car-quality service with transit-grade efficiency
For a century, private cars and mass transit lived in separate worlds. FlywayRapid merges the advantages of both, drops the disadvantages — and adds what neither offers: nonstop, private, seated travel at about 100 km/h average.
Metro, monorail, buses, minibuses
- +Efficient when full
- +No driving burden
- –Inconvenient routes and long waits
- –Crowding, standing
- –Huge government capital cost
- –Slow door to door
- Not a solution
FlywayRapid
- +Private, seated, on demand
- +Nonstop, point to point
- +Low capital cost, high capacity
- +Grid power, low operating cost
- +Thin right of way
- +Safe automated control
- About 5× faster
Neopod
The vehicle is a node in a network.
A passenger goes from their station to any other station directly — no timetable, no stop at stations along the way, no change of vehicle. The path is assembled for that person, in real time.
The network can cover a premium locality, an airport, a special economic zone, a city, or a region. Every station is connected to every other. Unidirectional lines keep cost down in lower-density areas; bidirectional lines serve high demand. The two can meet, so the system thickens where it must and stays lean where it can.
Seamless
One vehicle, origin to destination. No interchange, no waiting on a platform for the next line.
Nonstop
The Neopod does not halt at every station. That is what makes a 100 km/h urban average plausible.
Many places
A grid, not a single corridor. Demand in one district does not force a metro-scale line through a quiet one.
Flyway motor
Ultra high-efficiency drive.
As part of the efficiency work, FlywayRapid developed its own motor: a specialised permanent-magnet synchronous design that increases drive efficiency by about 20%. It combines the direct-drive character of a hub motor with the advantages of a conventional PMSM / BLDC machine — and avoids the usual penalties of both.
The motor has uses beyond this network, including conventional electric vehicles. It is one of many product-level optimisations in the system, not the whole story.
Vehicles take energy from the grid as they move. There is no large traction battery to haul, recharge, or replace.
Talk to us about a FlywayRapid network.
We work with cities, real-estate projects, industrial sites and partners who want to bring this network to people who currently lose hours on the road.