# JPods® SC

> Converting traffic costs into jobs & savings


## Posts

- [Pods](https://jpodssc.com/pods/): 90 Second Boston Summary from Bill James on Vimeo.   Junior High students assembling the JPods at their school, JD O’Bryant Assembled and operating    
- [5X5 Standard](https://jpodssc.com/5x5-standard/): The Problem: Climate Change, resource depletion (US Peak Oil was in 1970), $22 trillion in Federal debt buying and defending foreign oil, sacrificing soldiers in perpetual oil-wars since 1991, oil-dollar funded terrorism, and disregard for eight Presidents calling for an end to foreign oil addiction are caused by Federal violations of Federal and State Constitutions (link). The US Constitution Divided Sovereignty: Unlimited Federal taxing powers for the limited sovereignty over war and peace. State sovereignty to tax to provide welfare and “internal improvements”. Federalist #45 (Madison): “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. […]
- [ATL 10x Benefits](https://jpodssc.com/atl-10x-benefits/)
- [Affordable](https://jpodssc.com/affordable/): 10X to 50X Lower Costs By removing the 2-tons to move a person in a car/bus/train and the repetitive start-stops of traffic, JPods networks operate with 10X to 50X the efficiency of current transportation networks.   Working Family Costs In cities with less than 5% public transportation, a typical working family ($20-50,000 income per year) spends $10,300 on transportation. In cities averaging 12% public transportation that cost drops to $9,300; fewer car payments, insurance, gas and parking results in an extra $1,000 per year of disposable income. It is practical to privately finance a 20% displacement of oil-based transportation in […]
- [ATL JPods Network](https://jpodssc.com/atl-jpods-network/): As communication networks digitized replacing rotary telephones with the Internet, transportation networks will digitize. News on the digitizing of transportation networks: Global Hyperloop Network Personal Rapid Transit Systems Digitizing Mobility Following is a summary of the capital flows to implement the digitizing of mobility networks forcused on a specific project at the Atlanta airport. Leadership in Restoring Liberty to Innovate JPods Network for Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport More of What is Failing will Fail Who Pays to Build JPods Network. Capital Flow Links to Metrics Leadership in Restoring Liberty to Innovate: Senator Beach and the Georgia Senate Transportation hearing, March 12, […]

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- [citytool](https://jpodssc.com/citytool/): JPods City Assessment Tool JPods Solar Mobility Network City Assessment Tool Enter your city and state — we’ll look up the data. Verify it, then run your assessment. City Data Input★ = JPods standard assumption Step 1 — Find Your City Look up Enter any US city — checks local cache first, then queries Census Bureau live. 🔒 Data from US Census ACS or local cache. Click  Edit  to adjust any value. Demographics Edit Population US Census Bureau Households US Census Bureau Cars per Household ★ MODIFIED reset ACS / FHWA state average Infrastructure Edit Total Road Miles FHWA / […]
- [realestate](https://jpodssc.com/realestate/): Real Estate Using the Bolden Street development in Greenville, SC as an example, following is an executive summary, followed by the ai prompt that returned it. Link to a Google Doc containing detailed responses from multiple AIs. Try the prompt for your real estate projects. Executive Summary The Bolden Street District in Greenville, SC, is a 90-acre mixed-use redevelopment project currently planning for 2,900 residences, 500,000 sq. ft. of office space, and 750,000 sq. ft. of retail. By implementing a transit network (such as the proposed JPods) and prioritizing pedestrian infrastructure to achieve a 60% reduction in car requirements, the project could […]
- [Resiliency](https://jpodssc.com/resiliency/): Following are details on how solar-powered transport networks might collaborate with SCOR to improve resiliency in South Carolina. Our view of resiliency: Life requires energy. Commerce requires walkable cities. As background, here is a link to “Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze” summary put together by the then Chair of the South Carolina Infrastructure Bank, Vince Graham. Requested Actions: Can we align JPods funded solar-powered transport efforts with SCOR objectives so JPods can fund the $120 million recently lost. Introduce the importance of Economic Work and walkable cities to resiliency. Introduce JPods patent for Rescue Rail to mitigate the hardships of hurricanes. Provide a summary data […]
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- [Greenville](https://jpodssc.com/greenville/): Category Walk Score Acreage Property Tax/acre Sales Tax/acre Total Tax/acre Service Cost/acre Net Fiscal/acre Net Walkable Commercial Areas 80 800 $87,500 $26,000 $115,500 $35,000 $80,500 $64,400,000 Car-Centric Areas 35 200,000 $3,300 $2,500 $5,700 $7,500 -$1,800 -$360,000,000 Three Phases to minimize risk to town and ramp crews and manufacturing base: Required Action: Key features of the JPods networks: Features for foreign visitors: AI Assessment Features for very large events:
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- [4steps](https://jpodssc.com/4steps/): 4 Steps to Implement Solar-powered transport networks Agree to the #5x5Solar standard. Privately funded transport networks 5 times more efficient than roads (>125 mpg) pay 5% of gross transport revenues to use airspace over approved public Rights of Way with safety regulated by Texas Department of Insurance. Maintenance Facility to stage deployment: Funded and built by JPods. Rights of Way access in compliance with TXDOT. Certified operational by Texas Department of Insurance. If any requirement fails, JPods pays to remove all components that are above grade. Expand the networks between Car Rental and agreed to terminal locations. Expand beyond the […]
- [Paris, France](https://jpodssc.com/paris/): Example network for Paris:   The 2024 Paris Olympics were a huge social and economic success. US cities can become much more walkable before the 2026 World Cup games. Walkable cities reduce draining their economies from importing oil and cars. Mode of Transport US (NHTS Data) Paris (2022-2023) Car Trips 83-85% 4.3% Walking Trips 8.6% in 2001 to 10.5% in 2017 53.3% Biking Trips 0.9% in 2001 to 1% in 2017 11.2% Public Transit 5% 30% Road designs diverged in the US and Europe following the 1973 Oil Embargo. From the same safety record and 43 MWh of oil use […]
- [TeamPresentation](https://jpodssc.com/teampresentation/)
- [NCTCOG](https://jpodssc.com/nctcog/): Discussion and vote by the North Central Texas Coalition of Governments to allow cities to build JPods. The vote to deploy JPods in DFW was passed unanimously. JPods’s presentation to DFW cities.
- [Solar](https://jpodssc.com/solar/): Mixed Grid™, combining JPods networks with microgrids Transportation has always been the catalyst for changing energy systems. JPods networks are the catalyst for changing economic lifeblood from oil to ingenuity — powering cities within a solar budget. Simple summary: For simple calculations, JPods network deploy 1 megawatt of collector per mile (at 4 meters wide). Power (MWhrs) is the miles of guideway times hours of “noon day sun,” typically 3.5-5.5 (daily sun is normally a bell curve from sunrise to sunset. “Noon-day-sun” squishes the bell curve into a square box to get a single value for ease of estimating. Macon, […]
- [Resources](https://jpodssc.com/resources/): Traffic map
- [Memorandum of Understanding](https://jpodssc.com/memorandum-of-understanding/):  (This MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING  (“MOU”) is entered into as of the _____________, by and between the CITY OF _____, Texas (CITY) and JPods LLC. (JPODS), or assigns (“JPodsTX”), each a Party” and collectively the “Parties”. WhereAs: Mobility is physical liberty. Access to mobility should be equitable and sustainable. Traffic congestion, pollution, and rising gasoline prices require innovative solutions.  The Boston Tea Party was a demonstration against a government transportation monopoly that triggered a war; and, The Texas Constitution forbids transportation and other monopolies: Article II, Bill of Rights, SECTION Sec. 26. PERPETUITIES AND MONOPOLIES; PRIMOGENITURE OR ENTAILMENTS. Perpetuities and monopolies […]
- [Steps](https://jpodssc.com/steps/): Establishing a known cost of regulations is essential to get funding: Madison, Federalist #62: “What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not but that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? What farmer or manufacturer will lay himself out for the encouragement given to any particular cultivation or establishment, when he can have no assurance that his preparatory labors and advances will not render him a victim to an inconstant government? In a word, no great improvement or laudable enterprise can go forward which requires the auspices […]
- [Freight](https://jpodssc.com/freight/): Item 7 is about JPods: https://nctcog.swagit.com/play/09082022-712 Item 8 is about  cargo  https://nctcog.swagit.com/play/09082022-712 Freight is a real problem for them 2:54 5:09 Truck travel time continues to worsen 10:00 Truck problems 10:45 Michael talks about trucking is the metric they are most struggling with. My guess this is similar in every city. This is a homerun for us. 10:55: “We are being caught everywhere” Lots of truck in neighborhoods, warehouses, ….. 11:55 Have to engage the goods industry to do something different. Automating vehicles, move at night 12:37 Neighborhood delivery with trucks stacking behind trucks. 12:46 Technology break through to help with goods […]
- [10X Benefits](https://jpodssc.com/10x/): Key Message Points Problem: Burning energy to move 2-ton vehicles to move a person in congested cities costs Americans $2.76 trillion/year. This waste is the root cause of urban traffic congestion, Climate Change, oil-wars, and rising gas prices. Clever Uber YouTube of how foolish it is to design urban transportation around moving people in 2-ton boxes. Solution: It is safer and faster to driving on freeways than secondary roads. JPods® networks build their own grade-separated guideways. People and cargo travel suspended from JPods’ overhead guideways in ultra-light self-driving pods. Solar panels mounted over the guideway structures to gather 100% of the […]
- [Networks](https://jpodssc.com/): Greenville-Spartanburg Economic Leadership 10X benefits on JPods networks PDF of presentation, Greenville loves it walkable areas Highway use by highway and by map Self-driving cars have been available since 1972, Morgantown’s PRT, Congressional Study, New Jersey Legislature study. Self-driving miles: Waymo has 20 million and Tesla 3 billion. Grade-separated networks are even safer. The crisis of 2008 will replay by 2030. EIA reported that in June 2025 the US passed Peak Fracking. Future of oil supply will always be less than June 2025. Dallas Federal Reserve Survey of 144 oil companies, Sept 2022. Background data on why the hardships of 2008 are […]
- [SC Traffic Costs](https://jpodssc.com/sctrafficcosts/): Traffic costs the people of South Carolina about $15.4 billion/year: $9.3 billion/year for foreign oil (link). $4.6 billion/year for accidents (link). In 2022: 1,018 deaths, suspected 33,081 known injuries. $1.5 billion/year for congestion (link). 70% of these traffic costs are urban. These excessive costs come from the defect of burning energy moving two tons to move a person in start-stop traffic. This innovative Uber video illustrates the flaws in moving people in cities in 2-ton boxes: In contrast, JPods networks combine safer and more efficient transportation technologies: Freight railroads average 476 ton-miles per gallon (link). The Personal Rapid Transit (PRT or […]
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- [Barrier](https://jpodssc.com/barrier/): In 1974, Congress commissioned a study of how to mitigate the hardships of the 1973 Oil Embargo and traffic problems in America. “Automated Guideway Transit”, study PB-244854 was published by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (COTA) in 1975. The study had two significant findings: Automated guideway transportation networks presented the greatest opportunity to solve oil and traffic problems. The barrier to solving oil and traffic problems is Federal regulations. Chapter 3: Major Problems in Automated Guideway Transit, Page 41: Urban transportation technology has advanced at such a slow pace that prevailing systems are almost indistinguishable from their counterparts of […]
- [Covid-19](https://jpodssc.com/covid-19/): Download pdf London Tube Study on 6X spread of flu contagion. Covid-19 is 2.5 times more contagious than the flu.
- [Network](https://jpodssc.com/network/): Example Networks:- Link Our experience causedus to invent Solar-Powered Mobility Networks: I learned the value of moving payloads suspended from a guideway more than half a century ago as a child. Too small to manage a wheelbarrow, I could move tons. The lesson was reinforced as an Infantry officer using cargo nets and helicopters to deliver logistics. In 1998, we applied these concepts to invent JPods solar-powered mobility networks. Electric motors replaced the muscles, and robots replaced the small child. Solar collectors deployed over the guideways can gather the energy to power the networks. The combined outcome cuts urban mobility […]
- [Railroad Regulations](https://jpodssc.com/railroadregulations/): Reasons why capital will not invest under Federal railroad laws. Written Constitutions are vividly clear that the Federal transportation monopoly is forbidden: Georgia’s Constitution: “Article I, Bill of Rights, Section VI, Paragraph V: “Shall not have the power to authorize any contract or agreement which may have the effect of or which is intended to have the effect of encouraging a monopoly, which is hereby declared to be unlawful and void.” US Constitution specifically enumerates the maximum extent of Federal involvement in roads at ensuring the defense of free speech in the “post Roads” clause. This restriction was adopted 8 states to […]
- [Atlanta](https://jpodssc.com/atlanta/): Reference: ATLANTA’S TRANSPORTATION PLAN CHALLENGES THE GOALS OF ATLANTA’S TRANSPORTATION PLAN ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES WE FACE AS A CITY. UNEVEN OPPORTUNITIES AND BURDENS Some neighborhoods are frustrated by growth and the traffic that has come with it. Others are frustrated by the lack of basic amenities like sidewalks, grocery stores and community services that often accompany growth. People have good reasons to be unhappy with traffic: Atlantic Monthly: Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It The automobile/oil-based economy requires families to own 1.97 cars to be economically competitive at a typical cost of $8,558/car/year. This is […]
- [Ridership](https://jpodssc.com/ridership/): BluePrint Aerotropolis Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL): 95.6 million passengers/year 65+ percent Non-Aeronautical Revenues World’s busiest airport since 1998 Estimated impact of $64.2 billion and 450,000 jobs 6.8 million square feet terminal Cargo Tonnage: 137,943 average 3 month period Daily people coming and leaving ATL is 110,000. Overall Strategy (Page 64):  The Aerotropolis Atlanta Blueprint builds on the “just-in-time” connectivity of the airport as a framework for strategic economic development and enhanced global competitiveness. With over 95 million passengers per year and an impact of $65 billion, the airport functions as an economic driver for the City of Atlanta, […]
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- [Digitizing Mobility](https://jpodssc.com/digitizing-mobility-2/): Letter to an entrepreneur group in Oklahoma. Digitizing factory process controls As background, between 1980-86 I worked for Honeywell setting up outside factories to support Honeywell’s manufacturing. I was part of the Just-in-Time application to manufacturing. Between 1986-1989 I founded and helped create the technologies for digitizing manufacturing processes. ASIDataMyte became folded into Allen Bradley. But the technologies created have been adopted by many customers. Process controls can be applied to digitizing business and the mobility processes. Digitizing business: Amazon has grown on its ability to integrate delivery with excellent web-based customer service. In 1989 I left ASIDatamyte to write WebClerk […]
- [Capital Flow](https://jpodssc.com/capital-flow/): Employing capital to radically retool an infrastructure has a case study: Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen Ambrose, how the Transcontinental Railroads were built. Private construction capital (risk on the innovators) reinforced by government-backed bonds once networks were in operation and achieving public policy objectives. Four Types of Companies: As with building the Internet and Transcontinental Railroads, companies must be created to be single-purpose. There may be overlapping of similar shareholders, but each type of company will have independent ownership, management, and operations: Capital: JPods Capital LLC and similar companies provide capital and enforced fiscal discipline. Technology:  JPods […]
- [City Request](https://jpodssc.com/request/): Subject: Requests by cities to have JPods fund, build, and operate networks. Intent: In 18-24 month certify the solar-powered mobility networks (US Patent 6,810,817) and establish the manufacturing base to convert traffic costs into customer savings, jobs, and value. Actions: By Nov 18th, cities submit request for JPods networks by using Attachment 2 – Submittal Form : CERTT_1stPacket_TransPod_JPods.pdf Where would this facility be built? Limits? Please include a map with your submission What would be the length of this facility? (Please review attachments 3 and 4 for recommended minimum facility sizes) What is the status/ownership of the right-of-way? Would this […]
- [Metrics](https://jpodssc.com/metrics/): Access to the public Right of Ways should be governed by Performance Standards of: Exceed efficiency of currently approved transport modes by 5 times. Exceed the safety of existing modes. Traffic costs Americans about $1.7 trillion per year. : $425 billion per year for oil. $871 billion per year in accidents, alternate data source. 40,100 road-deaths in 2017. 2.31 million injuries in 2013. $305 billion per year in congestion. $109 billion per year in car damage from poor road maintenance. About $1 trillion per year of costs can be recovered as value (customer savings and profitable revenue). Link to PowerPoint and KeyNote presentation. There is over a […]
- [Morgantown PRT](https://jpodssc.com/morgantown-prt/): Tricia Nixon opened the first self-driving car network on Oct 24, 1972. She said it was “more fun than Disneyland.” The Federal highway monopoly has blocked further deployments of PRT in America since. That same highway policy caused the bankruptcy/abandonment of nearly half the freight railroads despite 400+ ton-miles per gallon efficiencies. here Summary: West Virginia University Transportation site. One hundred ten million injury-free passenger miles. In the same period, 1.7 million Americans were road-killed. Pays for itself every five years, independent audit in 2010. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment study (COTA 1974) PB-244854, a solution for American cities to be […]
- [Prime Law of Networks](https://jpodssc.com/prime-law-of-networks/): The Prime Law of Networks: Network value and capacity increases exponentially based on the number of interconnected nodes divided by packet size. In transportation networks, the optimum packet size moves between one person and one family, 1-6 people. We travel as individuals and families. Designing human transportation networks to support human nature has 10X paybacks. The current government planned transportation network that mandate burning coal/oil to move two tons to move a person accounts for debt, oil-wars, and Climate Change. Government mass transportation has the same core failure as mass production, the larger the batch the poorer the quality. Small […]
- [Team](https://jpodssc.com/team/): Tool our team has created. JPods3D™ supports sketching deployments. The lat-long of each pier is estimated, but will have to be specified by physical surveys. Here is a 4 times actual speed Ride-along between the main and international terminals (link). WebClerk™ software incorporates the geolocation of each pier, truss, switch, etc… into a serialized commerce and maintenance system. This provides us with in-depth control and documentation and your team with regulatory insight. Here is a very short video of how this manages spare parts. Essentially everything become “click-to-order” enabling crews to access maintenance data, support videos, history, etc… by clicking on […]
- [WP72](https://jpodssc.com/wp72/): This involves risks, so if you are uncomfortable, or unable, do not take the risk or feel any obligation. We formed the Georgia Mobility Company and can provide Founders shares to anyone willing to help, at $0.10 per share: The minimum is $1,000 for ~ .1% of the company The maximum is $15,000 for ~ 2.1% of the company We have not done the paperwork for a formal offering. This is a “friend, family, and fools” effort. It should only be taken understanding the risks are very high and the chances of success are totally uncertain. We are not desperate […]
- [Leadership](https://jpodssc.com/leadership/): There are doers and watchers. Doers are rare, and they change the world. Georgia has the leadership of five teams that are triggering the creation of a physical version of the Internet. Digitizing mobility will create vast numbers of construction, manufacturing, and engineering jobs by converting traffic congestion and costs into value. Senator Beach triggered action in Georgia. Governor Kemp has defined a “Georgia First” framework where Georgia is leading to innovate solutions to traffic and energy problems. GDOT Commissioner McMurry, Chief Engineer Pirkle, and Director of Operations Hibbard are defining how existing Georgia laws can be used to secure […]
- [News](https://jpodssc.com/news/): Facebook Groups: Global Hyperloop Network Personal Rapid Transit Systems Greenway & Futuristic Rail System Evacuated Tube Transport Climate Chaos Info & Data Antarctic Sea Ice Example news links to the digitizing of mobility. There are too many stories to keep up with. Here are some: Governments: Cuomo: I Reached Out to Tesla to Help Fix the Subway System’s Signal Problems Engineers to Pedestrians: No ‘Walk’ Signs for You! Senator Beach and the Georgia Senate Transportation hearing, March 12, 2019 on solar-powered mobility networks. Most Big Cities Are Planning for Autonomous Vehicles 50% up from 10% are planning for self-driving cars A […]
- [Videos](https://jpodssc.com/videos/): 22-second summary 90-second summary Station behaviors Software for robots to collaborate. 10-meter example SkyRide, awarded Best Cruise Ship Feature of 2016 and 2017. JPods robots on SkyRide Example of building a carrier for emergency vehicles that can be deployed anywhere along a JPods guideway.   Video on collision avoidance on SkyRide. Break testing at SkyRide. Bogies on a table to show the way motors behave.   Collision avoidance testing.   2008 News story in San Jose 2006 News story in Minneapolis Illustration of network reducing loads on the George Washington Bridge.
- [Franchise Page](https://jpodssc.com/franchise-page/): Following is the 5X5 Standard of the Solar Mobility Agreement. It is based on: Existing city agreements for granting Rights of Way access to cell towers, electrical grids, and other networks of interest to the public. 1864 Pacific Railroad Act that granted Rights of Way access based on privately funding construction. The Rights of Way codes for the US general 5% fee. State sovereignty over “internal improvements” (link) as documented by: State regulations using ASTM-International F24 standards with a 10,000 time better safety record than US DOT. States are more innovative that the Federal government: “States Take the Wheel on […]
- [Design Networks](https://jpodssc.com/design-networks/): Changing the lifeblood of America, and the world, from oil to ingenuity is a huge task. It is too big to be accomplished by anyone. At JPods, we take the ant approach to eating an elephant, small bites, lots of friends. We will provide anyone that wants to help and participate with the tools to design JPods solar-powered mobility network. We have a program so that people creating ideas and opening markets can share in the value that is created. We created tools to help those who want to help: RouteTime™ (download). Sourish led the effort to integrate v into […]
- [TEDx and Red Bull TV](https://jpodssc.com/tedx-and-red-bull-tv/): TEDx Atlanta, 2011   Other news links: Red Bull TV documentary on the Future of Transportation Garden Girls’ presentation to Fremont, CA City Council Hearing with Boston City Council  
- [$1.7 Trillion/year](https://jpodssc.com/1-7-trillion-year/): Traffic costs Americans about $1.7 trillion per year: $425 billion per year for oil. $871 billion per year in accidents, alternate data source. 40,100 road-deaths in 2017. 2.31 million injuries in 2013. $305 billion per year in congestion. $109 billion per year in car damage from poor road maintenance. ASCE estimates $2.046 trillion to fix ground transportation with Grades of: D for roads D- for transit There is over $1 trillion per year of waste that can be converted to profits and customer savings by repeating in transportation the success of restoring communication infrastructure to free markets in 1982. Link to […]
- [Capacity](https://jpodssc.com/capacity/): Capacity is determined by: The number of people in each vehicle. Time the network is empty between vehicles. In your circulatory system, you have 20 trillion red cells which act as very tiny packets that can stream resources on-demand. JPods networks are circulatory networks for economic communities, because: People and cargo need to go from their origin to their destination when they want. Batch processes, buses and trains, force people to adapt to the machines. JPods’ Just-in-Time system supports the needs and desires of people.   Because JPods stream resources to needs in small packets, the networks are better utilized […]
- [Travel Times](https://jpodssc.com/travel-times/): Travel times are calculated by our Route-Time™ software which you can download to create your own networks. The rails are generally indicated by lines and stations are indicated by squares at the center of circles. Circles indicate walk time away from a station. Following are several images of the same network with different start points of: Grand Central Station LaGuardia Airport Queens From the Red Cross, the distance you can walk-ride-walk is: Green circles = 5 minutes Blue circles = 10 minutes Yellow circles = 20 minutes Red circles = 30 minutes
- [Affordable](https://jpodssc.com/affordable/): Question: If we know we can move a ton at 400+ ton-mpg, why are we moving a person with the 25 mpg efficiency of the Model-T? Answer: As with the near century of rotary telephones under Federal monopoly, the 25 mpg of Model-T has been protected from free-market competition since The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1916 began violating the Constitution’s “post Roads” restriction. Since 1916, 46% of freight railroads have been replaced with 25 mpg roads. As soon as free markets are restored by the 5X5 Standard of the Solar Mobility Ordinance, JPods will have solar-powered mobility networks. JPods: Are […]
- [Economic Development](https://jpodssc.com/economic-development/): An estimated 13,000 job-years are created for each $1 billion in highway construction according to the FTA and White House. On March 20, Goldman Sachs provided JPods LLC a Letter of High Interest relative to investing $4-6 billion to build JPods networks in Texas. They expected to profit from converting current Texas traffic costs into value. Traffic costs the people of Texas about $107.5 billion/year: $72.8 billion/year for foreign oil (link). $26.1 billion/year for accidents (link). In 2021: 4,489 deaths, suspected 239,539 known injuries. $8.6 billion/year for congestion (link). There are more than enough traffic costs in DFW to support […]
- [5x5 Solar](https://jpodssc.com/5x5/): The 5×5 solar standard creates certainty so capital can invest. It is based on the same contract many cities use with communications and power networks to support the public good. ////////////   BEGIN 5X5 Standard that is quick to read, see detailed version below that can be funded. //////////// WHEREAS, Mobility is physical liberty. Access to mobility should be equitable and sustainable. Traffic congestion, pollution, and rising gasoline prices require innovative solutions. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, To encourage economic development and transportation innovation in free markets, the ___CITY__or__STATE___ shall regulate grade-separated networks of self-driving vehicles by the following 5X5 Standard: […]
- [Digitizing Mobility™](https://jpodssc.com/digitizing-mobility/): Digitizing communications created millions of jobs and vast wealth. This innovation had been stifled for a century by a Federal monopoly that mandated rotary telephones. In 1982, the courts enforced the Constitution, breaking the Federal communications monopoly. The history of digitizing communications will be repeated in transportation. 1919: President Wilson, by Executive Order, socialized and monopolized communications, power, and transportation infrastructures as “natural monopolies.” 1968: The technology existed decades before commercialization, see Mother of All Demos (watch for 4 minutes starting at minute 29 if pressed for time). 1982: Courts declared the Federal communications monopoly unconstitutional. 1983: Frank Caufield asked […]
- [Funding](https://jpodssc.com/funding/): Who pays for Building the JPods Network JPods LLC and the Texas Mobility Company LLC pay to build our solar-powered mobility networks. We are investors, not vendors. We are taxpayers. We pay 5% of our gross revenues to use the public Rights of Way. We are investing in Texas to provide solar-powered mobility networks that combine: The 140 times greater efficiency of freight railroads ($0.01 per passenger-mile in graph below, link). The on-demand service of a physical version of the Internet, a network of Horizontal-Elevators™ (link). The 50,000 times better safety of theme park thrill rides (link). JPods Networks are 10 […]
- [Safer](https://jpodssc.com/safer/): Theme parks, regulated by ASTM F24 standards, have an injury rate of about 3.7 per million. Approximately 372 million guests safely enjoyed 1.7 billion rides at 400 U.S. amusement parks. DOTs are self-regulated and have an injury-rate of 11,200 per million. DOT injuries are 4.6 million medically consulted injuries per year. Radically safer transportation networks can replace the unsafe government monopolies. DOTs have a death rate of 106 per million people (source: The Economic and Societal Impact Of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2010). Simply put, you are 530 times more likely to die from an automobile accident than to be injured on an […]
- [Faster](https://jpodssc.com/faster/): Since JPods travel non-stop from origin to destination, travel is much quicker than on roads. Although JPods vehicles can travel faster, JPods will typically travel at 45 mph (72 kph) in most cities. See typical speeds in cities listed below: Driving Speeds of U.S. Cities Source City Average Speed (MPH) StdDev Steps Per Mile StdDev Routes Albuquerque, NM 31.2 +/- 7.3 1 +/- 0.6 960 1 Arlington, TX 33 +/- 11.3 1 +/- 0.7 928 2 Atlanta, GA 30.7 +/- 8.0 1.1 +/- 0.8 930 3 Austin, TX 28 +/- 8.3 1.6 +/- 1.3 928 4 Baltimore, MD 25.8 +/- 8.4 1.4 +/- 1.0 930 5 Boston, MA 20.9 +/- 8.5 […]
- [Cleaner](https://jpodssc.com/cleaner/): Cleaner – Solar powered mobility networks: Preempt operational pollution. Minimize land waste for: Road use Parking. There are 3.4 parking spaces per car, with a strong indication that in many locations there are eight parking spaces per car. Parking cars adds clutter to cities.  
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- [About Us](https://jpodssc.com/about/): Our Approach The Why of JPods (video): Mobility is physical liberty. Life requires energy: Affordable oil has been ending at the slow pace of geology since US Peak Oil in 1970. Thomas Edison, 1910: “Sunshine is spread out thin and so is electricity. Perhaps they are the same, Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy… Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property…. There must surely come […]
- [Home](https://jpodssc.com/home/): Problem Burning energy moving 2-tons to move a person.       Solution JPods Networks preempts these defects by moving ultra-light self-driving cars suspended from an overhead guideway. To be energy self-reliant, we use the structure of that guideway to deploy the solar collectors to gather the energy needed. The result is urban traffic costs are cut by 10X to provide on-demand mobility regardless of age, ability, or wealth. Arena Greenville GSP Is the Juice worth the squeeze


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