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The Interstate Traveler Project
  • Presented to:
  • Detroit City Council
  • January 31st 2003
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Who are we?
  • World Class Local and International Advisory Board


  • Lee Bates,  President     - AEM, Inc.
  • Greg Cook    CEO      - Ann Arbor Transit Authority
  • Mark Hepburn   Bus. Dev. Mg - Danotek Motion Technologies, Inc.
  • Neil Lehto     Esq.           - O'Reilly, Rancilio, Nitz, Andrews, Turnbull & Scott, P.C.
  • Sharon McDonald     President - McDonald Communications
  • Chuck Meek   President    - Executive Leadership Recruiters, LLC
  • Jeffrey Dolowy    C.P.A.      - Plante Moran, LLP
  • Frank Phillips     - Phillips Consulting & Sales, LLC
  • Martin Ringhofer   - Aerospace Executive
  • Jack Salo   - Automotive Consultant
  • Lark Samouelian,  President     - Samouelian Communications, Inc.
  • Paul Zwirkoski,  President     - ZDR Engineering Excellence
  • Frank and Paula Jamison   - Professor Emeritus WMU
  • Gary Wellings,   - Midcoast Management
  • … and many, many others…..
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Mission Statement
  • Mass production of high-speed maglev rail
  • Full Integration w/existing Interstate Highway System
  • Connect to existing transit systems and city centers.
  • Major focus on Transit Oriented Developments TOD
  • Highly secure passenger travel
  • Easily expanded / interconnected transit system
  • Feeder to Existing Bus Systems
  • Generate Electricity


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Features and Benefits
  • Provide Inter-City Multimodal Transit
  • Move People, Private Cars, Small Freight
  • Environmentally Clean Transit System
  • Create first interurban hydrogen network
  • Enhance Municipal Infrastructure
  • Hundreds of small cars vs. a few large cars
  • Automatic routing to sub networks TCP/IP





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Opportunities
  • Create hundreds of jobs and local incentives
  • Reduced Air Pollution
  • Conduit Cluster Concept
  • Automatic Internet access for ridership
  • Increased Ridership for Local Bus Systems



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Illustrations
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Highway Installation
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Interstate Traveler Car
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The Switch Plan
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Design Board 4 (Full Service Rails System)
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Inside the Traveler
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Cloverleaf Substations (Detailed)
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Car Ferry Station
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Cloverleaf Substation Terminal
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Detroit Highways
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Detroit Loop
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Ann Arbor Full Integration
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NEMCOG
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South West
Michigan
Commission
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West Michigan
Regional Planning
Commission
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Congressman
Mike Rogers
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Michigan
Representative
John Hansen
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City of Detroit
Agenda 1-31-03
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District 55
Rep DeRossett
to Mayor Kilpatrick
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Community Rewards
  • Seamless, intermodal, interconnected transportation system
  • High speed rail from the Detroit River Front to the Lake Michigan Shoreline
  • Large Annual Tax Revenue
  • Faster Growth with less Pollution
  • Fully self sufficient.
  • Profitable to stock holders
  • Bring our communities closer together by saving the time it takes to get from here to there.



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Conclusion
  • Rapid transit can be rapidly installed anywhere, anytime.