Los Angeles to Las Vegas
In Las Vegas, an ever-increasing population has ground I-15 traffic to a halt. Designed to carry approximately 130,000 vehicles per day, I-15 currently sees over 270,000 vehicles daily through central Las Vegas. That number is expected to balloon to over 500,000 by 2030. **
Helping to find a solution is NDOT’s I-15 Resort Corridor Study. In collaboration with local agencies, private developers and property owners, the corridor study has identified over 50 conceptual improvements to increase capacity, improve access and circulation, enhance bicycle and pedestrian facilities and establish a multi-transit corridor. The individual projects, with a cumulative estimated cost of over $2 billion, will be considered and constructed as funding is available.
Freedom Transit would provide a High-Speed mass transit system from Los Angeles to Las Vegas covering 228 miles with 21 stations and 31,725 electric cars. A trip covering the 228 miles would take 1 hour 36 minutes and cost $65.70 per vehicle, which includes the vehicle rental, electric power, and automated roadway usage fee. At 20% of current traffic the gross revenue would be $1.3 billion per year. At 80% of current traffic the gross revenue would be $5.1 billion per year. Total cost of construction would be $7.7 billion including the automated roadway, stations, solar panels, and electric cars.
Freedom Transit system users rent electric cars at stations for the trip. Users travel in there own rented electric car just for use on the automated roadway as passengers. They may also manually drive the electric cars out of the system and around town for an additional rental fee.
** http://www.nevadadot.com/news/newsletters/pdfs/centerline/2009_07.pdf
Helping to find a solution is NDOT’s I-15 Resort Corridor Study. In collaboration with local agencies, private developers and property owners, the corridor study has identified over 50 conceptual improvements to increase capacity, improve access and circulation, enhance bicycle and pedestrian facilities and establish a multi-transit corridor. The individual projects, with a cumulative estimated cost of over $2 billion, will be considered and constructed as funding is available.
Freedom Transit would provide a High-Speed mass transit system from Los Angeles to Las Vegas covering 228 miles with 21 stations and 31,725 electric cars. A trip covering the 228 miles would take 1 hour 36 minutes and cost $65.70 per vehicle, which includes the vehicle rental, electric power, and automated roadway usage fee. At 20% of current traffic the gross revenue would be $1.3 billion per year. At 80% of current traffic the gross revenue would be $5.1 billion per year. Total cost of construction would be $7.7 billion including the automated roadway, stations, solar panels, and electric cars.
Freedom Transit system users rent electric cars at stations for the trip. Users travel in there own rented electric car just for use on the automated roadway as passengers. They may also manually drive the electric cars out of the system and around town for an additional rental fee.
** http://www.nevadadot.com/news/newsletters/pdfs/centerline/2009_07.pdf