Timeline for How far could a maglev elevator travel in two hours?
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| Jul 15, 2017 at 1:25 | comment | added | cybernard | We would need to know how many intersections, and how far apart these changes occur? Each change has an acceleration and deceleration penalty. Short routes would have slower speed limits, and take longer. Otherwise speed*time - time penalties. Straight shot maybe 2k-3k, but realistically 800-1000 especially as the population grows and more congestion exists. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 0:14 | comment | added | MolbOrg | how it then differs from the roads. also they do not have wait at intersections take look at Autonomous Intersection Management and similar videos (there is a lot about that subject) | |
| Jan 24, 2017 at 23:27 | comment | added | Tim | @LorenPechtel For my situation I'm imagining that roads were replaced by tubes and pods. Like a bus, it might go on the freeway for a while, but at some point needs to turn off and travel normal streets. Consider urban to city & return. You couldn't have a dedicated tube for every urban street - it would be impractical. | |
| Jan 24, 2017 at 23:24 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | @Tim With roads it's normally not worthwhile to build the bridges except in the heaviest use places. A better comparison to what you're talking about is subways--ever see them intersect? And since we are talking about small pods (ie, cars) lets combine the two--look at freeways. Zero intersections. | |
| Jan 24, 2017 at 23:24 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2017 at 23:17 | comment | added | Tim | @LorenPechtel What magical city do you live in where roads never intersect? What happens when you need to switch into another road/tube? | |
| Jan 24, 2017 at 7:34 | answer | added | Samwise | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 22:22 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | Why would there be junctions to stop at? We are talking small things, ever hear of a bridge? One goes over another, the paths should never meet. | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 19:19 | comment | added | Karl | What now, Express elevator or stopping at junctions? That'll change the answer by an order of magnitude! | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 11:41 | comment | added | Mikey | If you streamilne your elevator like a maglev train, you may go as fast as the coefficient of friction allows you to: all things being equal, a maglev train will go almost as fast as a maglev pod: they endure almost the same air resistance. The acceleration & deceleration will be a limiting factor for human endurance, so it depends how far you are going: Up a tower, there's no need to reach such speed. | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 10:01 | answer | added | Xenocacia | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 9:20 | comment | added | Separatrix | Are the passengers standing or seated? | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 7:57 | answer | added | SRM | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 6:24 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 6:01 | comment | added | o.m. | As I understand the question, you are talking about elevator-car-sized "maglev cars" that travel both horizontal and vertical. | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 1:31 | answer | added | Fred | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 0:52 | history | asked | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |