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26.02.2002

The Danish company RUF International presented to the government a project designed to solve the problem of congestion in the transport networks of large cities. The essence of the project is to direct all urban transport, including cars, on rails.

The proposed transport system is a network of monorail roads along which public and private electric vehicles move. Small sections of the way transport overcomes on ordinary roads. Then he enters the rails and combines into a kind of train moving at speeds up to 120 km / h.

It is also planned to automate sections of roads without rails: sensors installed underground form a kind of fairway, so that drivers may not drive their cars at all. Cars for the RUF transport system can be anything, but for driving on rails they must have a V-shaped channel running along the bottom of the body.

The monorail system is intended for large cities, but the authors of the project did not forget about the inhabitants of the suburban area: a hybrid transport with electric and fuel engines is provided.

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