Multilevel Urban Transport Layout for Congestion-Free City Movement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current urban transportation and logistics systems in large cities face congestion, accidents, environmental degradation, and inefficiencies due to overlapping and intersecting transport levels, which lead to traffic jams and hinder rapid movement within the city.
Innovation Solution
A multilevel urban transportation and logistics system is designed with separate levels for freight, technical communications, passenger transport, and pedestrian use, connected by vertical elements like elevators and staircases, ensuring non-intersecting levels and efficient movement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If transport levels are separated into distinct vertical levels, then traffic congestion is eliminated and movement speed improves, but device complexity and infrastructure construction difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies vertical stratification by dividing the urban space into multiple levels: underground level for freight transport, surface level for pedestrian zones and green spaces, and elevated levels for public transport. This dimensional separation eliminates horizontal conflicts between different transport types, enabling faster movement without congestion while managing complexity through systematic vertical organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The transportation system is segmented into distinct functional levels: freight transport in underground tunnels, pedestrians on surface level with green zones, and public transport on elevated structures. Each segment operates independently with dedicated infrastructure, resolving congestion issues while the modular segmentation helps manage overall system complexity.
2Reliability
If multilevel separated transport system is implemented, then traffic congestion and accidents are eliminated, but construction difficulty and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
By relocating freight transport to underground tunnels and public transport to elevated levels, the system achieves complete physical separation from pedestrian zones on the surface. This dimensional redistribution eliminates accidents between vehicles and pedestrians while the modular design of elevated structures and underground tunnels facilitates standardized construction processes.
Solution Approach 2:
Green zones and pedestrian-only surface areas act as intermediary layers between underground freight transport and elevated public transport. These intermediary zones provide buffer spaces that enhance safety while allowing independent construction of each transport level without direct interference, simplifying the overall construction process.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If freight transport is moved to underground level, then environmental degradation from surface pollution is reduced, but construction complexity of underground infrastructure increases
Solution Approach 1:
Freight transport operations are extracted from the surface environment and relocated to dedicated underground tunnels. This extraction removes pollution sources (vehicle emissions, noise, vibrations) from the urban surface, improving environmental quality while the tunnels provide controlled, standardized infrastructure that manages construction complexity through conventional underground engineering methods.
Solution Approach 2:
Freight transport is shifted to the underground dimension, creating a separate operational layer below the surface. This dimensional relocation isolates pollution-generating activities from the urban environment above while the modular tunnel design and standardized underground construction techniques help manage the complexity of underground infrastructure development.
4Reliability
If pedestrian zones are created on surface level, then pedestrian safety improves, but transport efficiency may be reduced due to separate levels
Solution Approach 1:
Pedestrian zones are established on the surface level, completely separated from vehicle transport operations which occur in underground and elevated dimensions. This spatial separation guarantees pedestrian safety by eliminating vehicle-pedestrian conflicts, while vertical transport connections (elevators, escalators, stairs) provide efficient access between levels, maintaining overall transport productivity through rapid inter-level transitions.
Solution Approach 2:
The urban space is segmented into distinct functional zones: surface level exclusively for pedestrians and green spaces, underground for freight, and elevated levels for public transport. This segmentation ensures pedestrian safety through complete separation from vehicles, while dedicated vertical circulation systems maintain efficient connectivity across segments, preserving overall transport productivity.
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AI summary
Disclosed are transport and logistics systems of large cities that may be used in construction of cities with population of over five hundred thousand people. The technical result of the proposed solution is to optimize the urban transport and logistics system, eliminate traffic congestions and ensure rapid movement to any point in the city. The urban transport and logistics system includes the first ground level for road and rail freight transport, the second level of pipeline and technical communications, the third level of passenger transport, the fourth pedestrian level, each level being located one above the other, and they are connected with each other and with residential and non-residential buildings by vertical staircase-elevator modules.