Physical Internet®

1. Mobility As A Service for people and cargo by Middle Mile™ mesh networks of podcars.
2. Active Mobility made safe for Last-Mile.
   • Walkable: Commerce and Community are pedestrian activities.
   • Bikeable: Making streets safe to bike
3. Integrate of transport and energy networks into a system so energy is applied to create and distribute value to fill wants and needs.
4. Build about 500,000 miles of grade-separated, solar-powered transport networks by 2037. This is about 4x the miles of freight railroads and 1/16th the miles of highways. ASCE rates US highways a “D”, they are unaffordable. This build is similar in scale to building the 260,000 miles of railroads in the late 1800’s. Americans spend $2.76 trillion/year on traffic. The network would have less than a 10 year payback. Assessment by ai for major US cities.

Layers of the Physical Internet are similar to network layers of the Internet:

Consider that the Internet and Physical Internet® have roughly 4 layers:

1. Fiber optics for high speed and heavy traffic.
   • Long distance: Airline, freight rail, and trucking for transport between cities.
2. Wi-Fi for local area networks.
   • Commuter: JPods and other PRT innovators provide commuter range (<50 mile) Transportation as a Service (TAAS), transit, and cars/trucks provide commuter-range transport of people and cargo.
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3. Bluetooth for last-device.
   • Bikes, walking, scooters, Uber, drones, Local Use Vehicles, etc… provide the last device.
4. Satellites, SD cards, and a vast number of other devices to fill specialty niches.
   • Off network vehicles such as existing cars and trucks

Patents

60% mode shift in 6 years from highways to Mesh Networks and Active Mobility:

Example of JPods mesh network to move people and cargo between walkable neighborhoods.

Shift from handling packages multiple times to standardized subcontainers.

Shift from batch carrying in truck to streaming in 500kg (1100 pound) packets.

Create standard subcontainers that:

• Fit into delivery vans and cargo bikes.
• Aggregate to fit into standard 20′ and 40′ containers for transport between cities.
• Add digital security/transaction/tracking devices.

Example of Last-mile options to move cargo and make walkable cities.

Fundamentals:

Commerce and Community are pedestrian activities. Machine behaviors should be adapted to support Community and Commerce. The current Build Environment, dominated by unconstitutional Federal Highways creates linear barriers to Commerce and Community:

• Commerce is pedestrian. Only 1.2% of land area in the 35 largest US cities are walkable land and generate 20% of GDP.
  • Links to walkable and bikeable details.
• Community is pedestrian:
• Built Environment is:
  • 188 times less efficient than freight railroads. The 140,000 miles of US freight railroads average 470 ton-mpg (Warren Buffett). Since The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1916 began violating the Constitution, 45% of 470 ton-mpg railroads have been replaced by roads with the 25 mpg efficiency of the Model-T.
  • . Financially harmful: Each car costs a family about $9,282, is parked 95% of the time with ~85% of car costs leave the local economy. 2.24 cars per household (278.06 million cars,   124.01 million households
  • Hostile to pedestrians and commerce. In 1973 the US, Sweden, and Denmark all had the same safe record and oil use of 44 megawatt-hours/person/year. Following the 1973 Oil Embargo Sweden and Demark diverged from car-centric sprawl to make cities more walkable and bikeable. The US continued car-centric sprawl. Per person oil use was reduced to 60% below that of the US. Road-kill of bike riders and pedestrians was reduced 400%.

Constitutional foundation:

Courts declaring the Federal communications monopoly unconstitutional in (1918-1982) provides a precedent for courts enforcing the Constitution to end the Federal transportation monopoly (Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1916-today).

• Sept 14, 1787, 8 states to 3 vote in the Constitutional Convention to forbid mercantile Federal infrastructure taxing and spending as enumerate in the “post Roads” and “No Preference” clauses.
• Federalist #45 explaining that states are sovereign over “internal improvements.”
• Madison Congressional debate Bounty Payments for Cod Fisheries, Feb 6, 1792.
• 21 Presidential veto messages enforcing the “post Roads” and “No Preference” Clauses.
• 10 of the last 10 Presidents issuing unanswered calls to action to end foreign oil addiction, oil-wars, and oil-dollar funded terrorism. The US imports 1/3rd of the oil we use each day.
  • Highways that mandate burning energy to move 2-tons to move a person are 188 times less efficient than freight railroads. Since The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1916 created a mercantile transportation monopoly political influence replaced free market efficiency in making transportation policies. The results are:
    • 45% of 470 ton-mpg railroads have been replaced by 25 mpg roads.
    • Foreign oil addiction.
    • Oil-wars since 1991.
    • Oil-dollar funded terrorist attacks.
    • $33 trillion in Federal debt increasing in tandem with the costs of oil imports and oil-wars.
    • Climate Change
  • Highways and Mass Transit are the wrong networks in cities (video). They created and have not solve traffic problems that cost Americans $2.76 trillion/year.
• Book, Climate Change Root Cause, Unconstitutional Federal Highway Making Unwalkable Cities.

Key to a paradigm shift is regulations