SUMMARY OF RESEARCH AT RPI ON TUBEFLIGHT, 15 FEBRUARY 1968 - 15 JANUARY 1969

Project Tubeflight deals with an intercity high-speed ground-transportation scheme in which air-cushion-supported vehicles propel themselves in a novel way in nonevacuated tubes. The report covers effort aimed primarily at the objective of obtaining realistic predictions of the power demands and attainable speeds of full-scale tubeflight vehicles. (Author)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also PB-177 518.
• Corporate Authors:

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  110 Eighth Street
  Troy, NY  United States  12180
• Publication Date: 1969-1

Media Info

• Pagination: 24 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Energy consumption; Intelligent transportation systems; Pneumatic conveyors; Propulsion; Tubing; Vehicle power plants
• Uncontrolled Terms: Propulsion systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Advanced systems; Power requirement; Tube systems; Tube vehicles
• Subject Areas: Energy; Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00039146
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: TR-PT-6904 Summary
• Contract Numbers: DOT-C-117-66
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 24 1973 12:00AM