Hi! I am an Egyptian citizen …a university student…living in Cairo…most of my friends and colleagues live in the regions beside our college, but unfortunately I don't.
Everyday, In order to go to college I need to take some transportation and that’s what I am going to talk about.
Metro:
As most of the Egyptian people think, it’s the most suitable mean of transportation in Cairo because it’s fast, cheap and connecting the capital as whole. I can’t deny this or hide my pride of having such a huge project in my country.
But as a Metro user, I want it to be better and better for the good of our country and then of me as a user of it. So, form my long experience and heavy suffers with the Metro, I can say that it has only two problems:-
- The crowd (a large number of Cairo people – Cairo’s population is more than 20 millions - are depending on the Metro as the main way of transportation, so there’s always a problem getting on and off the Metro cart).
- The other problem is a technical problem: a large ratio of the Metro’s energy consumption is wasted. As it’s known that most of the energy consumption of any vehicle goes at the process of starting the move. So if we can make it non-stopping, we would conserve this wasted energy.
These two problems are not compared with huge benefits of the Metro, but if it weren’t for them, it would have been perfect.
In this article, we are seeking PERFECTION!! So keep reading… 
I don’t know if I have been thinking loudly, but I am sure of one thing…even if I am, it wouldn’t be so loud that it reaches China…I was amazed by an idea developed by Chinese innovators that meets the exact needs of Cairo’s Metro. Let’s get into it and keep focused to keep up with the Chinese brilliance.
The core of the idea is about the separation between the passengers that will get of the Metro and those who will not.
So, we will have the ordinary carts of the train where the passengers that are not willing to leave the train will set, but that’s not it. We will also have an additional cart running on bars on top of the ordinary carts. This one will be in the station loaded with its passengers waiting for the train to come.
The train that is about to reach the station already has a cart on top of it loaded with the passengers that want to get off at this station. So, before the train reaches the station, the cart on top of it separates and slows down the speed giving the chance to the train to grab the cart that’s already waiting in the station to merge with it and continue their way together. As the train leaves the station, the cart on the upper bar reaches the station allowing its passengers to leave.
This way, the train never stops at a station…only the additional carts do so allowing passengers to get on and off the train so we solved the two problems of Cairo’s Metro as the train will not waste so much energy trying to move from silence and also there will no crowds or jams of people doing any legal or even illegal act to get to their destination because there won’t be any interference between passengers leaving and getting on the train as they are in two separate carts.
At the end, I would like to say that all the Egyptians are thankful and appreciating for the great project of Cairo’s Metro…but such an idea would be very useful for everyone, People would be more relaxed to take the Metro without crowds and fights and also we would save some energy consumed as waste.
I wish to find this idea or a similar one by Egyptian innovators in the forthcoming third line of Metro as an application of the human’s brilliance.
The Idea we talked about throughout the article is present in this video if you want to picture it:here
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Published at www.magnology.net | 21st Issue | 01/12/2010
(482 reads)the original article Here : http://www.magnology.net/magazine/21st-issue/fresh-ideas/never-stopping-train
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