SkyTran (Eilat)

SkyTran is a public transport system planned in Eilat to connect Eilat International Airport , Israel , to the city center.

Project

The US company SkyTran has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the city of Eilat with the aim of setting up a transport system of the same name in the city. This is the fourth such MoU signed with a city in Israel.

In April 2019, approval from the Israeli Ministry of Transport was awaited. Construction is planned to start in 2019.

technology

SkyTran is a magnetic levitation train . It should run on a single rail that can be used in both directions. Two or four-person cabins are to be used, which run driverless and computer-controlled and hang under the rails. The rail is mounted on masts eight to nine meters above the ground. However, the technology is still in the development stage and will not be ready for the market until 2021 at the earliest. The costs should be around 1/10 for a corresponding tram route.

literature

Shoshana Solomon: Eilat links deal with SkyTran, taking step toward futuristic pod transport system of April 4, 2019. In: HaRakevet 125 (June 2019), p. 20.

Remarks

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Further letters of intent were signed with
- Netanya for the construction of a corresponding line from the Netanya-Sapir train station to the Kiryat Nordau district ;
- Herzlia about a feasibility study and
- Ra'anana , where the feasibility study is already available and the project is to be assessed by a regional committee. (Solomon: Eilat left deal .)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Solomon: Eilat left deal

[2] Further letters of intent were signed with

Netanya for the construction of a corresponding line from the Netanya-Sapir train station to the Kiryat Nordau district ;

Herzlia about a feasibility study and

Ra'anana , where the feasibility study is already available and the project is to be assessed by a regional committee. (Solomon: Eilat left deal .)

[2] Netanya for the construction of a corresponding line from the Netanya-Sapir train station to the Kiryat Nordau district ;

[3] Herzlia about a feasibility study and

[4] Ra'anana , where the feasibility study is already available and the project is to be assessed by a regional committee. (Solomon: Eilat left deal .)

[Solo-1] Solomon: Eilat left deal