Towards compact transport

By Starrport Corporation

Transport will be, next to housing, the sector where most of the now used energy and created emissions can be saved.

Recyclus.com became aware of the paramount importance of transport and emissions when we got in contact with Jim Starry, who developed an environmentally friendlier airport he calls Starrport. In it, all the necessary processes - landing, take-off and terminal – are brought together under one roof. The resulting incline and decline and the not-needed taxiing saves about 4.000 liters of fuel per flight.

Because of noticeably reduced noise and fumes, the airport can be planned in the close vicinity of big agglomerations. The savings in travelling to and from the airport add up significantly. The compact terminal allows to arrive practically under the gate and leave in a small fraction of an hour. Unthinkable in the present gargantuan ground hogs. The Starrport design is optimized in numerous ways. Elevators shuttling the passengers from the park deck to the gate can be used for security and identity control. In this scenario, the long lines during check-in are no longer necessary. And even more valuable travelling time is gained.

The Starrport offers many floors for a huge commercial zone, right in the building where the aircrafts alight atop. For instance, a top notch international convention center and first grade cultural presentation facilities allow the use of the spot on a scale that would otherwise hardly be affordable. Payback time of the condensed airport city is short, because of the multiple use of the same highly desirable quality space.

A similar way of thinking can be applied to any part of the Starrport, to the necessary logistics, the maintenance requirements, and the surrounding infrastructure. Inefficiency in each and every part of buildings, traffic situation, passenger flows, environmental requirements, general layout, and procedures can be singled out and taken care of. The 123 patent-pending technologies of the Starrport offer an overall approach that assure an optimal investment in each individual situation and assure payback for every euro spent.

A desired Future Scenario for highway traffic

The same mindset can be transposed to other areas and infrastructure systems. As an example, highways can be used as stacked driveways for either light train or a coupled-car train, where individual cars are driving together hooked in train-like rows, as long as they have the same destination. The modules decouple when their way parts. On elevated rails above, if possible along the centre strip of the runway, such a second traffic system will make use of the same estate that the runway needed initially. The expectedly faster traffic above will both ease the usual congestion below and visually promote a new kind of fast convenient collective individual transport.

Ideally, the pod car itself will use emerging techniques like the Luxemburg-based Motor Development International air pressure car. MDI headed by the former French Formula 1 pilot Guy Negre recently signed an accord with Tata Motors that grants licenses for the exclusive implementation of MDI technologies in India. A welcome possibility for them will be the probable adaption of air pressure in the Tata Nano. Revealed last January and costing about 1.700 Euro, it is the world’s cheapest people’s car to date. An air car Tata Nano makes double sense, because such a fuel-less feature would allow that the millions of expected Nanos will be environmentally-friendly like no other car before. When the STEM(Systematic Temperature Elimination) invention of Jim Starry is applied in addition, each of these cars would re-oxygenate the air, just like Volvos since 2000 and some selected models of BMW do.

The responsible European authorities and interested companies could develop concurrently a desired future scenario and then combine the already available technologies in an optimal format, plus open a search competition for more solutions in every imagineable field. The challenge to curb CO2 and the hazardous environmental impact on air, water and land forces us as humanity to overstep former hesitation, limited thinking and hidden agendas.

Europe seems still in a quite luxury position compared to most of the rest of the world, and expressed its dedication to lead in different areas, namely for a liveable ecology. Solutions are everywhere. It is imperative to create / expand a platform to harvest them successfully.

StarrportCorp is ready to contribute and co-operate.