Metropolitan transport system and method

Abstract

Metropolitan transport method and system that allows maximizing journey time commitment and network coverage by running a first train in a first direction, defined from a starting point to a finishing point of a route including a plurality of stopping stations, where the first train runs through a tunnel having two levels, the first train running on a first level of the tunnel and stopping at all the stopping stations on the route; the method also including running a second train in the first direction of the route on the second level of the tunnel, where the second train does not stop at all the stopping stations on the route.

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TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a metropolitan transport method and system that can be applied in the people transport industry, and more specifically in the area of commuter transport, that allows maximizing journey time commitment and network coverage by using at least two rail transport lines located at a different level in the same tunnel.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Demographic trends indicate that the current process of concentrating a large majority of the world population in large cities will continue. In this sense, prognoses indicate that in the year 2025 there will be over 20 cities exceeding 10 million inhabitants and another 20 more cities exceeding 5 million inhabitants. Overcrowded cities are expected to cover areas of hundreds of square kilometers, so said cities correspond with polycentric models with urban routes and transport thoroughfares that can be up to 100 km long.[0003]At the same time, given that territorial and ur...

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Benefits of technology

[0014]The main advantage of the invention is that the commitment between the increase in schedule speed, which allows reducing journey times, while at the same time maintaining high capillarity that allows assuring a large subway network coverage, for which purpose there is a local line on the first level and an express line on the second level, sharing the stations where both have a stop, and arranged vertically in the same tunnel section is met.

[0015]The express line allows giving the resulting line higher schedule speed with respect to a conventional subway line while at the same time the local line assures coverage of the conventional line. This technical solution is therefore innovative and allows maximizing journey time commitment and network coverage by means of two lines.

[0016]The local line is a conventional wide coverage line, i.e., a line with trains stopping at all the stations on the route, whereas the express line has fewer stops than the local line, i.e., trains

Problems solved by technology

It is necessary to consider that a greater economic growth entails greater mobility needs and more time used in trips, with the subsequent increase in the social cost this entails.

However, none of these solutions approaches the drawbacks described above in depth in relation to the growth of urban areas and the subsequent increase in distances traveled on journeys, which entails the need to increase speed in trips as a means of reducing journey

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