Examining the structure of the city immediately appears that the only usable space to create a new urban mobility system, without causing the destruction of many roads of the cities themselves, are in the streets above the height of 4 feet up. It is this space that will be used for Metro Superleggera. The Metro
Superleggera is a revolutionary means of public transport that uses the location of the cars and the recognition of their speed, the GPS technology, available with the accuracy required only since 2000 and which differs from all existing means of transport public for the following seven key characteristics:
- the type of space used, which is constructed by air to more than 4 feet above the ground (floor level of the cars) so as not to interfere with ordinary roads, consisting of spans of steel profiles with arms hanging at their time attached to the sides of the pylons supporting them
- means of locomotion, which are self-propelled electric cars to use individual and couple, which means they are very close to the type of private transport tends in part to replace it, hanging from trucks traveling flowing In a profile
- the absence of intermediate stops along the route chosen, the cars, in fact, once they are out of the station of departure, are not intermediate stops, but only stop at the station selected by the passenger
- the cancellation of half time waiting, because, in Metro cars are super light waiting at stations and passengers who depart as soon as the passenger is on board
- The low-speed cruising and maximum (25 to 33 km h) which ensures maximum security and maximum comfort while ensuring travel times less than or equal to those obtained with traditional meters
- the guidance system of the cars, which is fully automatically controlled by computers which, as mentioned, use cars for the location of the GPS system of last generation
- getting the total interconnection network that connects together all the stations so that it never becomes necessary for users to make intermediate stops or transhipment
Defects with the adoption of the lightweight Metro will be removed and which are inherent in all current public transport systems and, as mentioned above, have addressed many users to prefer private transport with its attendant problems of pollution are:
- the need for intermediate stops along the way (train, metro, bus)
- the waiting media at the stations (train, metro, bus)
- the need for transhipment between different lines (metro, train, bus)
- the overcrowding of vehicles especially during peak hours (bus, metro, train)
- the distance of the stations of the user and the destination (train, meter)
- waiting times and half of the journey is different depending on the time (bus, metro)
- the use of polluting fuels (bus)
- the high cost impact of train (bus)
- the high incidence of the construction costs of facilities (metro, trains)
- considerable time creating infrastructure needed (metro, train)
- time high of travel is especially during peak hours (bus)
- the high risk of becoming victims of theft (metro, train, bus)
- high maximum operating speed (metro, train, bus)