Terreplane Technologies, LLC
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Faster, cheaper, and more sustainable transportation is what Terreplane Technologies, LLC offers in the form of a patent-pending portfolio of technology. Costs of Terreplane are from 1 percent to 20 percent of the best available alternatives with lower-cost applications for bridges across rivers (piggybacking on existing structure).
Terreplane is based on continuous zipline-type guideways where vehicles propel themselves along the zipline at speeds great enough to provide aerodynamic lift so that the prominent force on the zipline is a pulling force. Flying trains of Terreplane vehicles would travel twenty feet above existing rail, street, and highway corridors with minimal impact on terrain.
Minimum velocities of about 100 mph are needed for air suspension; the pulling force inherently keeps the path free off bumps allowing speeds to near-sonic conditions. Terreplane is more than a new mode of transportation, it is a new approach with vast possibilities on where evolution of the technology will take us. It provides a path to a hyperloop type infrastructure as a result of this evolution and without the investment risk of going straight to such a system.
The market and patent portfolio covers more than 80% of the GWP. Nation-wide technology licenses are available for over 40 countries.
