Profit and Loss and Super Highways

Consider a UPS road  rig that carries 10,000 packages that races across the USA on the digital highway.  Two day delivery is $10 for a shoe box, so this really old technology generates $100,000 every two days.

So, the secret here is that if I am a transit manager in say, Nevada, then I want to collect $1,000 of that for a passthru.  In return, I curb off the protected lane, pave it for speed, and sell it.  The US economy would of course boom.  From the center of the USA, I can jump on the nearest BRT and be anywhere else in country, in one day.  There is no change over, just drive the thing into the heart of down town LA.

All of these vehicles have a standard cross sectional area for motor vehicles, but they are a lot longer. The diesel electrics run constant speed, we can refuel them at high speed on the highway.  The other cars are simply variations on trailer bot.

Construction costs along the major interstates?  We could take the long stretches across Nevada and get paving costs close to $200,000 a mile.  $300 million across Nevada gets the money flowing.    But the demand would be nearly 3 million trucks a year, isn't that $3 billion?

That is why I like Utah in this game, they are the interstate crossroads in the west.  I have blogged about the Salt Lake City transit managers, and they are gung ho, a very likely partner to Nevada.

If I were a car makers, say GM, I would have my tiger team working on diesel electric road locomotives.

We would need construction crews right away.  The main job here is allocating at least one median lane, but the more of the median we can get the more we will use.  We will curb off the asynchronous human traffic, then run the center lanes using traffic control technology.

So, you want a jobs program, take your construction workers and get them working with curbing and paving and traffic signal installation and test and sometimes bridging or tunneling.  We guarantee the states income on a per mile basis and they will push it, without much help from central government.  Nevada could easily generate 2-4 billion a year.  But Nevada itself would boom, in fact there would be a real estate boom because any parcel of land is a comfortable BRT ride away from any city.

Boom times, really.  In the future, they will say,about us that we suffered a shortage of sand built into our asphalt.