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What is the Interstate Traveler Hydrogen Super Highway?  It is a collection of vital municipal utilities bundled into what we call the Conduit Cluster providing a first of its kind full integration of solar powered hydrogen production and distribution system supporting a high speed magnetic levitation ( MagLev ) on-demand public transit network built along the right of way of the US Interstate Highway Systems, and any other permissible right of way where such a machine would be of benefit.  The Hydrogen Super Highway, also known as the HSH, is accessed by Traveler Stations that are built within the right of way of the Interstate Highway within the land locked real-estate of the clover leaf interchanges providing maximum ease of access for people who live anywhere near the Interstate Highway.  The HSH is much more than just a high speed rail system.

The HSH public transit network will enable millions of people in the future to utilize on-demand publicly owned transit vehicles that share the same maglev rail with privately owned transit vehicles.  Essentially the HSH represents the addition of new lanes of transportation traffic on existing rights of way.

What problem does the Interstate Traveler Solve?  The newscasters tell us every day about the difficult times people are having all over the world.   Everywhere there is overcrowding, urban sprawl, public utility failures, traffic jams, car accidents, utility poles that are easily damaged by bad weather,  backed up sewer systems that contaminate local public waters and the threat of drought and famine.  The science of all these problems being significant unto themselves as a business, a municipal responsibility and as a personal plight.  The Interstate Traveler creates a more resilient solution to all of these problems in a single relatively inexpensive mass-produced rapid transit rail system with an embedded 'self-contained and self-sustained' conduit cluster for common municipal utilities.  Further, the ability of the Hydrogen Super Highway to reduce greenhouse emissions is unsurpassed.  Cities that are now choked with harmful smog will soon begin to breathe easier as the skies begin to clear when all the existing internal combustion engines switch over to hydrogen produced in abundance by the rays of the sun.  Further, the ability of the system to process waste will enable the supply of hydroponic grade agricultural irrigation on a massive scale, which in itself will produce edible crops, fuel grade crops and actual carbon sequestration.

 Ultimately, we are creating a massive functional upgrade to the efficiency of the United States public infrastructure as a whole by implementing a nested domain address system for a National Public Transit Network.

Garden Arbor Light Rail

It has become ever more popular for new urban areas to be developed with underground utilities, and as the ever increasing population grows into new areas and redevelops old ones, there will be a need for both a highly efficient light rail system, and a need for massive upgrades in the basic public utility conduits for services such as electricity, water, and liquid waste.  One of the many great aspects of the Garden Arbor Light Rail system is the ability to sequester carbon while releasing oxygen into the atmosphere.   You can read more about the Garden Arbor Light rail system here.  You can also visit the Hydroponic Highway systems approach for carbon sequestration and water purification by clicking here.

Our Mission

Our mission is to mass produce the least expensive and most universal form of public conduit to move people via maglev technology, and simultaneously provide structural conduit for the distribution of electricity, potable water, liquid waste, fiber optics, hydrogen, oxygen, and where applicable, other liquid and vapor based fuels. By partnership with the State and Federal governments, we intend to expand our business to include an International Sales Organization to supply light rail systems and utility conduits to municipalities world-wide.

In this regard, our aim is to provide a continuous revenue stream for municipal governments for the management of public works and the embellishment of parks and other public spaces along with the management of local public transportation services at all levels.

Our vision is this: To mass produce a unified public conduit system that can be installed anywhere at the lowest possible cost, the highest possible quality, with the greatest efficiency, built from the most resilient materials and is pollution free.

Business Model Overview

 The Interstate Traveler Company, LLC enables the consolidation of public utility systems into a single mass produced rail system as an affordable product supplied to municipalities world-wide. All nations face the same infrastructure dilemmas, that is why the Interstate Traveler is a truly global enterprise for a truly global need.

Directly servicing the ever growing populations of the world with reliable and quickly installed utility conduits for electricity, potable water, fluid waste, liquid and vapor based fuels, and public transportation is our mission.

The utility clustering principle being exploited by the benefits of mass production using materials that guarantee hundreds of years of service, is the ultimate investment of both public bonds and private venture capital.

Concentrating on the most efficient design brings about an irreducible magnitude on structure principles, minimal cost and maximum performance. Steel tubing is very quickly formed to the quantity that will allow miles of track to be installed per month, and even miles of track to be installed in a single day with the back-log of pre-fabricated, modular, mass-produced sections.

Automated TCP/IP traffic control system using ports, and subnets will allow for personally owned, publicly owned and commercially owned cars to operate on the same platform (public network) with assurance that the commercial cars get to the right loading dock on the right spur of the right sub network automatically. The Internet has proven the massive expandability of TCP/IP based addressing systems, we are simply treating each car on the public system, each gallon of water, each kilowatt of electricity, each kilogram of hydrogen as a packet in a massively expandable network that will serve the people for generations.

The TCP/IP Protocol is ideal for traffic management via real-time location determination to properly provide credit and debit to public toll-ways, scenic routes, all the way down to local township municipal networks. All this being understood, it is easy to see the efficiency, economy and reliability of a self sustaining conduit system that delivers people and public utilities giving the Passenger or the Concierge or the owner of a private Transport the freedom to pick a destination on the rail, and reroute to another destination at any time with the click of a button.

The Interstate Traveler is a Semi-Public transit system, riders are registered in advance.

The Interstate Traveler

Hydrogen Super Highway

Company Intent: Public Private Partnership

The Interstate Traveler Project has been formed into a Limited Liability Company, registered in the State of Michigan working in the design, production and distribution of alternative energy, where that alternative energy production system is fully integrated into the Rail Conduit Cluster and Utility Substations. The Interstate Traveler is intended to provide a new standard rail infrastructure for mass-transit as an upgrade to the existing United States Interstate Highway System and along existing right of ways operated under a 50/50 Revenue Share Public / Private Partnership on Public Rights of Way. We make the rail, and all the Transports are made by strategic partners and vendors such as the existing Automobile, Heavy Equipment and the Aerospace Industry, where those cars on the rail may be owned by Municipalities, Corporations, and Private Individuals. As long as the standard propulsion systems are used, any one can make a car of any shape and size (Using Proper Safety Codes and Standards) and will be able to ride the Interstate Traveler Rail Network from city to city all over the United States.

You can click here to read one of our Executive Summaries.... Click this Link

The Founding of the Interstate Traveler

Inspiration for the Interstate Traveler finally amassed itself on Sunday March 19th, 1995.  On that day Justin Sutton was inspired to conceive of an advanced mass transit system when reading a story involving the rail road industry. On that day, the primary requirements of the system flashed into his mind, and he transcribed them onto two sheets of paper.

You can see the first two pages of objectives for what would become the Hydrogen Super Highway outlined on March 19th 1995 by clicking here:
Original Outline Page One of Two
Original Outline Page Two of Two

Justin Sutton published this work in 2002 and immediately began building a national and international advisory community then filed a Limited Liability Company registration in the State of Michigan in 2003. During the year of 2002 presentations were made to City, Township, County and Multi-County Planning Organizations along with Transportation Agencies and Labor Unions all across Michigan. In 2003 the system was officially presented to the State of Michigan where after proper protocol and presentations to House and Senate Committees the House and Senate Unanimously Resolved support for the Interstate Traveler Project.

Then after years of effort planing then publishing and making formal presentations at banks, cities, townships, counties and civic clubs we received many great letters of support from bankers and government planners, State Reps and Congressman.  You may click here to see some of our letters of support.

Then progress moved us into the Legislature of the State of Michigan and in 2003 the House and Senate both passed Unanimous Resolutions of support for the Interstate Traveler Project.  You can read the two State Resolutions from the Michigan Legislature by clicking here:
State of Michigan House Resolution 23 - 2003
State of Michigan Senate Resolution 89 - 2003

Research History for the Hydrogen Super Highway

American Steel

The only way to save American Steel companies from being shut down is to buy what they make.

Realizing that the Interstate Traveler Rail Conduit Cluster is a mass produced "Snap-together" plug-&-play technology made from tons of steel components, the broad adoption of this rail design provides an unprecedented economic benefit to steel manufactures. As an exportable commodity, we will supply American made technology to the world using tons of American made Steel. Here in America, the build-out of the Eisenhower Interstate Traveler on 54,000 miles of Interstate Highway (including access roads and siding tracks) will require no less than 750,000,000 tons of American Made Steel!

Creating Jobs in America and Abroad

Some of our most basic projections have suggested the creation of 40 permanent jobs per mile of rail installed to staff all the businesses in Traveler Stations and provide concierge on all the Transports. Therefore we can project that the 54,000 miles of the Eisenhower System could sustain as many as 2,160,000 good paying, "Livable wage" jobs spread out across America in the hospitality, food and entertainment industry alone. When professional trades are added for the construction and expansion of this system, the number of high paying jobs skyrockets.

The benefits of having huge doors on all Transports means there will NEVER be a problem for anyone boarding one of our Transports. ADA Compliance means more to us than just putting up hand rails. The benefits of having a fuselage that can freely move in three dimensions enables each Transport to make direct contact against the loading bay so that there is no bump and no gap for anyone to step over, or get a wheel or heel stuck in when heading out for a ride across the country.

Carbon Credits

Of the many great benefits of the Hydrogen Super Highway, the ability of the HSH to offset carbon is practically unmatched.   Many sources claim that automobiles, on average, generate one pound of carbon dioxide for every mile driven by a car.   Therefore if we consider each passenger on the HSH to represent one car off the road, compiled annually using an average of 15,000 miles / year, we can offset 15,000 lbs of carbon dioxide per passenger per year.   With the National HSH built out on the 54,000 miles of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway we will have a simultaneous passenger capacity of more than 9,000,000 people.   Therefore, we look at 9,000,000 * 15,000 = 135,000,000,000 lbs (67.5 Million Tons) of carbon dioxide per year.  With some cap and trade figures valuing carbon offset at as much as $10/ton, the National HSH offset value is $675,000,000.00 / year for providing daily transportation for upwards of 9,000,000 people. 
For a more detailed description of how burning gasoline creates so much carbon dioxide, please visit our Hydroponic Highway page.

Standard ISO Shipping Containers

When we look at freight hauling on 45,000 miles of this system we can easily support 50,000 Freight Transports that can hold two 40 foot standard shipping containers for a total capacity of 100,000 containers that can move about the country, fast, quite, and carbon free.

The original Smart-Grid for Public Transportation

HSH Solar Cycle from Sunrise to Sunset

Solar-Panels on Standard HSH Rail: 84,480 SqFt/Mile

Cross-sectional Elevation at Scale

HSH Elevated Rail System

Taking Transportation to a Higher Level