Rail cum road vehicles (RCRV) and economy rail track-cum-corrugated concrete track to engage with corrugated tread rubber wheels on all roadways.

Abstract

A rail cum road vehicle(RCRV) running on rail tracks or on plain roads, includes a gas powered hybrid engine coach linked to and pulling one or several passenger coaches or goods vehicles, all of which in common are fitted with pneumatic rubber wheels, steel wheels, air suspension system with hanger brackets, air brakes and couplers. The air suspension system will lift the axles of the rubber wheels for rail travel, and it will lift the steel wheels to nm on plain roads. Its regenerative braking system produces electricity to run the motor of an air compressor unit or the vehicle itself. The engine power is transmitted to the steel wheels and the rubber wheels via crown/differential boxes and sprockets and chains. All of the RCRV are fitted with ‘advanced light weight rail tracks brakes’ and ‘corrugated concrete track to engage with the corrugated tread rubber wheels’ for instant braking. The circular chassis bogie at rear end helps the RCRV on tracks and on road comfortably negotiate. The ballast-less economy rail track with lesser numbers of light weight sleepers is bolted to the ground for comfortable journey with less noise.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001]The invention relates to Rail-cum-Road Vehicle (RCRV) comprises of Hybrid Engine coach coupled with Trailer-cum-Semi Trailer / Passenger coach / Caravan / Ambulance, Economy Sleeper and Rail Track-cum-corrugated Concrete Track to engage with corrugated tread rubber wheels there for on a portion of all the existing roadways / expressways, for fast mass transportation of passengers and goods within the cities, inter cities and inter states, with facility for door to door loading and delivery of various goods.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Description of the Related Prior Arts and their Deficiencies [0002]The existing, more than one and a half centuries old road vehicles, heavy railway trains of passenger coaches and wagons, heavy and slow trams and the huge cost metro and mono trains are all known. Because of many advantages in rail journey, people prefer it. But unfortunately the existing railways could not accommodate more passenger coaches or wagons, as they alrea...

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Benefits of technology

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Problems solved by technology

But unfortunately the existing railways could not accommodate more passenger coaches or wagons, as they already reached a saturation point.

The main problem with Railways is the high construction cost of their rail tracks.

So, all developing and poor countries could not afford to spend for such costly rail net work.

Also, so far, there was no any alternative economic rail transport technology like RCRV available to the public throughout world.

Regarding freight movement also, either rail or road transportation did not at all satisfy people.

There is enormous delay and theft in rail transport.

So, they seriously warn that the existing world-wide transport net work may collapse and the mankind has to face the aftermath doom and gloom.

When such is the present world's burning crisis, no attempts of any kind have so far been made to revolutionize the heavy, costly, slow moving and obsolete TRAMS/Street rail cars and the killer road vehicles.

But unfortunately all the embodiments of their inventions had been found to be deficient in technologies and unsafe to run on rail tracks as detailed below:

Cumbersome equipments to lift and lower the axles with rubber wheels and steel wheels, then complicated construction of guides to place the vehicle on rail track from plain road, then fitting motors to rubber wheels to move along rail track, without applying mind how the motor will run the vehicle on plain roads without electricity and then other embodiments were orientated with the existing heavy railway bogies.

Therefore roadways commercial vehicles may not suit for broad gauge rail track.

In another dangerous embodiment, both steel wheels and rubber wheels were designed to bear and share the vehicle load equally while running fast, may lead to derailment and more consumption of fuel due to continuous friction/adhesion of rubber wheels on its road track; in anoth

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