Capital Summery

Capital Summary

Average capital cost of light rail is $100 (Japan) to $202 million per mile only to lose 80 cents of every operating dollar.

St Louis Fed, Dec 2003, Light-Rail Transit: Myths and Realities

Line	Type	Cost	Length	Cost/mile
San Francisco Central Subway	Underground	$1.57 billion	1.7 miles	$920 million
Los Angeles Regional Connector	Underground	$1.75 billion	1.9 miles	$920 million
Los Angeles Purple Line Phases 1-2	Underground	$5.2 billion	6.5 miles	$800 million
BART to San Jose (proposed)	83% Underground	$4.7 billion	6 miles	$780 million
Seattle U-Link	Underground	$1.8 billion	3 miles	$600 million
Honolulu Area Rapid Transit	Elevated	$10 billion	20 miles	$500 million
Boston Green Line Extension	Trench	$2.3 billion	4.7 miles	$490 million
Washington Metro Silver Line Phase 2	Freeway median	$2.8 billion	11.5 miles	$240 million
Atlanta I-20 East Heavy Rail	Freeway median	$3.2 billion	19.2 miles	$170 million

Transportation is digitizing just as communications did. Uber, scooters, Tesla are digital devices on the analog highway. JPods and Hyperloops will be digital devices on digital networks. Link to Red Bull TV documentary on the Future of Transportation

Links to documents:

Problem: Burning a finite resource to move two tons to move a person in congested urban networks.
- Clever Uber YouTube on the defect of moving people in two-ton envelops.
- Eight Presidents declaring foreign oil addiction a major national security threat.
- Traffic costs Americans $1.7 trillion/year.
Solution: Profit by converting traffic cost into value with 10X more efficient and lower-cost networks of self-driving cars on grade-separated, solar-powered guideways.
- 3-minute summary video (China)
Metrics: Link:
- Cost data, 50X less than buses, 25X less than trains, 10X less than cars.
- Capacity
- Energy Durability
- Safety
Team: Deep experience in technology, manufacturing, engineering, compliance, and logistics. Access to thousands of former military officers to seed networks where applicable.
Market Size: Start small and iterate relentlessly where there is less than a 5 year payback on networks.
- Boston
- Atlanta
- San Jose
- Kansas City
- BWI
- Miami
- Dubai
- Morgantown
  - Independent Audit of Morgantown’s PRT documents that PRT networks pay for themselves about every 5 years relative to buses. Morgantown’s network is not nearly as efficient as JPods.
  - Barriers to innovtion: Congressional Office of Technology Assessment study PB-244854
  - Background on how courts declaring the Federal communications monopoly unconstitutional in 1982 will be repeated in transportation.
Path to Market:
Supporting tools:
- Route-Time™ and JPods3D
- WebClerk, founded and wrote the tools for controlling the selling process.
- ASIDatamyte, founded and invented digital systems for controlling manufacturing process.
- Aesthetic Green Power, solar collectors we make in Poughkeepsie, NY.
- SkyRide that JPods contracted with to add automation. Best Cruise Ship Feature of 2016 and 2017. Carnival added to 3 ships.
- Business Plan
- Spread Sheet
  - To keep the scale projects understandable, finances are calculated by Projects.
  - The baseline is a 10 km network, such as the Mall of America to hotels and airport. This requires $82 million.
  - Total projects are for 118 km, at $1,360 million.
  - Tabs at the bottom:
    - JPods Summary: Job created per 10 km, for the 118 km, and the estimated Physical Internet in the US.
  - go to the P&L tab at the botton to see EBITDA (gold).
- The following 8-minute video explains the capital benefits of building the Physical Internet and JPods.