Los Angeles (Disney Land) 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 (Disneyland) to Las Vegas covering 261 miles with 32 stations and 39,214 electric cars. A trip covering the 261 miles would take 1 hour 52 minutes (non-stop at 140 mph) and cost $124.00 per vehicle (not per passenger), which includes the vehicle rental, electric power, and automated roadway usage fee. At 37% of current traffic (40 million trips per year) the gross revenue would be $5.1 billion per year. At 80% of current traffic the gross revenue would be $10.9 billion per year. Total cost of construction would be $12.4 billion including the automated roadway, stations, solar panels, and electric cars. A $10,000 investment at 37% of current traffic would pay a dividend $1,563 per year. The total tax revenue would be $1,493 million annually.
Freedom Transit system users rent electric cars at stations for the trip. Users travel in their own rented electric car just for use on the automated roadway as passengers. They may also manually or autonomously 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
*** http://www.techbriefs.tv/video/DARPA%E2%80%99s-Future-Ground-Based-Ar
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 (Disneyland) to Las Vegas covering 261 miles with 32 stations and 39,214 electric cars. A trip covering the 261 miles would take 1 hour 52 minutes (non-stop at 140 mph) and cost $124.00 per vehicle (not per passenger), which includes the vehicle rental, electric power, and automated roadway usage fee. At 37% of current traffic (40 million trips per year) the gross revenue would be $5.1 billion per year. At 80% of current traffic the gross revenue would be $10.9 billion per year. Total cost of construction would be $12.4 billion including the automated roadway, stations, solar panels, and electric cars. A $10,000 investment at 37% of current traffic would pay a dividend $1,563 per year. The total tax revenue would be $1,493 million annually.
Freedom Transit system users rent electric cars at stations for the trip. Users travel in their own rented electric car just for use on the automated roadway as passengers. They may also manually or autonomously 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
*** http://www.techbriefs.tv/video/DARPA%E2%80%99s-Future-Ground-Based-Ar