Homepage Initiative Rail Individual Transport (SIV)

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We are a small initiative that presents feasible ideas using existing technologies to redesign motorised transport in an environmentally friendly, climate-neutral, safe, more comfortable and economical way. All motorised vehicles are considered, because all vehicles need a lot of space, are heavy, produce fine dust and cause accidents, regardless of the drive system.

In the process, the roads become habitable for us humans.

Traffic will be adapted to the logistics sector and automated accordingly, for the benefit of people.

This is not a solution for the few, but a solution for everyone, worldwide.

During this initial work, other areas of transport were added. Transport is not just a single issue, but an overall concept. Some things could already be implemented today:

•     A borderless ticket to be able to charge the costs to the users,
•     getting more freight traffic onto the railway to relieve the roads,
•     plan new ecological industrial estates with new transport connections,
•     create new car parks for trucks, including e-trucks with charging facilities,
•     callable toilet facilities to create a new offer for the missing toilets in public spaces,
•     own ideas, e.g. rubbish and bicycle garages, two TEN V railway projects for fast freight connections, new Rhine bridges with second and third level uses.

A major challenge is always the cost of transport infrastructure projects. Often these are quickly brushed aside. Comparisons are often lacking and described as difficult because of the differences between the projects.

Nevertheless, very rough data can be found on the net. 

Here is a small non-binding rough cost overview for each 1 km of new lines:

Underground                               600 Mill. EUR

Highway                                             6 - 20 Mill. EUR (most expensive A100 Germany: 140 Mill. EUR)

Railway ICE (Germany)                  12 - 30 Mill. EUR

Tram                                                 11 Mill. EUR

new individual rail system              4 Mill. EUR

New individual cable car system   4 Mill. EUR

No study has been done on this, as the competences are lacking in our initiative. However, the whole set-up will take more than 10 years. Since all current vehicles can run on this system, there will be a very slow change and little negative impact on the labour market. 

The production of the new vehicles and the rails will require many jobs and bring many innovations. The redesign of the roads will also take many workers.

We may as well look at the problem and discuss it for a few more years.

Our planet doesn't care, it doesn't need us,

We are paving its way towards global warming.

Let's turn the wheel now and drive in a different direction, just please don't go back,

where nature and people are priority one. 

On 01.01.2022, there are approx. 717 registered vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants in Germany with an average age of approx. 10.1 years.

Do we want to replace these resources with new drive technologies in 10 years? Although some of them could be used for more than 15 years. Let's calculate this worldwide, would it work, would it be feasible?

In September 2022, we were informed that there are currently 48 million registered vehicles in Germany. 

In what time frame should these be replaced with new engines and at what cost to the environment?

We humans are strange:

we have solved millions of problems perfectly and economically,

we have perfected our health, provided our lives with many luxuries, and much more.

But some things we just leave behind and don't pay attention to:

our planet,

even though we could do it differently, of course we can,

but can and do are two different things.

Everyone knows that cars no longer have a future because the price is too high, regardless of the drive system.

The car costs a lot of lives,

in 2021, there were about 2,600 road deaths in Germany,

Worldwide, according to the WHO, about 1.35 million people died on the roads.

furthermore

• fine dust and exhaust fumes are produced, as well as tyre wear,
• traffic wastes energy,
• traffic takes up enormous amounts of sealed land for roads and car parks,
• the vehicles have a bad environmental balance in their production and operation,
• most vehicles are only used for about an hour a day,
• there is hardly any room for pedestrians and cyclists.

About 80 % of our streets are 2-lane with parking lanes and a small footpath, which is blocked with rubbish bins 3 times a week. There is hardly any solution for safe walking and more cycling.

It's time to put the environmental damage on the transport systems.

There is space above all traffic routes, lots of space that we can use. We don't always have to seal new areas. More motorways can be built over motorways, or railway lines. There are already some double-decker bridges, e.g. the Öresund Bridge Denmark / Sweden and the Moselle Bridge in Alf-Bullay, both are for n railways and roads. The George Washington Bridge has 8 vehicle lanes above and 6 vehicle lanes below. With houses it is natural to go up in height, so why not with roads or railway tracks. These areas are mostly owned by the public sector and could be used more easily than buying and building new lines and tracks.

Underground, we already have enough experience with the underground railways in many cities, although it is much more complicated and difficult.

Very large bridges with long spans have existed for a long time:

Danyang-Kunshan Expressway Beijing-Shanghai Longest bridge since 2011, 164.8 km.

If you find any errors, we are grateful for any advice.