Intermodal transport system and energy storage system for global warming prevention.

Author(s)
Kawaguchi, K. Suzuki, E. Kondo, H. & Ichino, T.
Year
Abstract

The amount of CO2 exhaust from automobiles is still increasing in the world. Therefore, a drastic innovation of traffic policy and technology is needed. We have designed and manufactured a new-concept flywheel battery system with sliding bearings, using tribology and traction control technologies, for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). The results of vehicle running tests show more than 80% energy efficiency of the whole flywheel battery system including the auxiliary units. We are studying an innovative HEV intermodal transport system using this fiywheel. One main feature of this transport system is the movable cyber-expressway using jumbo trains. The effect of jumbo trains that substantially cut the CO2 emission from automobiles is discussed when they are integrated with a new concept of road traffic in an intelligent transport system (ITS). For the covering abstract see ITRD E128680.

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C 36222 (In: C 36168 [electronic version only]) /91 /15 /72 / ITRD E128734
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In: Urban Transport X : urban transport and the environment in the 21st century : proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Urban Transport and The Environment in the 21st Century, Dresden, Germany, 2004, p. 553-562, 5 ref.

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