Sustainable circulating railway line and network

Abstract

A sustainable circulating railway line and / or network, including circular-turnouts, covered by multi-way stations, as cores and / or key nodes of circulating-line and / or network including poly-rails feeder-line / net derived. The circulating railway line and / or network employs a circulating route-system to minimize red-lights, enhance and balance traffic flow, facilitates vehicles' interchange and reorganizing, and passengers' on-board and / or easy transfer, improves service layover, safety and efficiency in general, and effectively reduces the building and operating cost of the railway network.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation-in-part of International Patent Application No. PCT / CN2012 / 075257 with an international filing date of May 9, 2012, designating the United States, now pending, and further claims priority benefits to Chinese Patent Application No. 201110128735.9 filed on May 10, 2011. The contents of all of the aforementioned applications, including any intervening amendments thereto, are incorporated herein by reference. Inquiries from the public to applicants or assignees concerning this document or the related applications should be directed to Matthias Scholl P.C., Attn.: Dr. Matthias Scholl Esq., 14781 Memorial Drive, Suite 1319, Houston, Tex. 77079.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The invention relates to a railway route-system and line / network planning, and more particularly to the structure of multi-track turnouts, junctions and stations, and inside which switch-compages.[0004]2. De...

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Benefits of technology

The invention aims to solve problems in traditional railway networks by employing a circulating route-system in properly connected sustainable lines / networks and improving service layover, safety and efficiency in general. This leads to a reduction in building and operating costs and facilitates vehicles' interchange and reorganizing, and passengers' on-board and / or easy transfer. The objective is achieved by designing a sustainable railway network with circular-turnouts covered by multi-way stations, which serve as cores and key nodes of the circulating lines / networks and of the feeder-lines / nets derived.

Problems solved by technology

Stations become larger when bus / taxi stations and car parking gather all around, resorting crowds and causing disorder or even jams.

In summary, based on the traditional full-return routing, lines can hardly connect each other by existing turnouts or junctions, while keeping traffic flow saturate and balanced, let alone reorganizing multi-way trains; and rail-transit in general can hardly expand its service layover to replace general traffics.

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