The Future of Travel

The PODyssey system can move pods containing parcels and people by using electricity instead of air-polluting fuels, and can create a city-wide network for people to go from work to home, for parcels to be delivered all over the city. Journeys can be completed in a single pod by using multiple modes of travel. One pod can be moved on the road, lifted by a tram system, run on tracks, and even moved by a flying drone, with all travel modes powered by electricity.

• All electric transport system
• Autonomous transport system
• Evolutionary transport options
• Transport of passengers and parcels
• Transport of light goods, urgent mail, urgent medical products
• Move by drones, on hardened tram tracks, overhead rail, in tunnels, on roads
• Stay in same pod for entire journey
• Easy autonomous transition from one travel mode to another
• Pods recharged while in motion
• No known competition
• Environmentally safe
• Pods enable isolated personal transportation, minimizing risk of infection

This technology provides an opportunity for development of an end-to-end autonomous all-electric parcel delivery system using pods, to be subsequently shared with passenger transport such that parcels, light goods, if needed, or passenger(s), can remain in the same pod for the entire journey. The system does not

differentiate between parcels and passengers except at the start and finish. Pods when latched to drones or intelligent chassis (the carrier vehicles) can travel anywhere that has communication coverage within a metro area, including cities, suburbs, hills, rural areas, rivers and bays. The pods unlatch from or latch to carrier vehicles inside podports (i.e. exchange stations), seamlessly

transferring between different forms or sizes of carrier vehicle without affecting parcels or passengers inside the pod. Each pod’s journey from origin to destination is set up initially by transport system control, which routes the journey via preselected

podports and podchargers on the agreed-to route. Pods with parcels or light goods and eventually passengers will all share the same infrastructure.