Company Summary
A) Belief Statement - Facilitating the leap to a fully integrated urban environment.B) Vision - Revolutionise the movement of people & freight and the reticulation of communication and electrical infrastructure in an urban environment.C) Mission - Design and build a driverless transport system that ensures point-to-point non-stop delivery of passenger or freight and to incorporate
carriage of infrastructure cabling and fibre optics. Executive Summary
Management
Michael Roach MBA (Tech Mgt) - Founder/COO/Mgt Cons.Tim Green – Project Director/CEO. Senior Manager in the oil and gas business with 35 years’ experience; skilled in managing complex Projects. Laurence has 35 years worldwide design and construction experience John Broadley – Consultant/CFO. After a 16-year career in Data Processing with a Major International, he established his own businesses. Customer Problem
The biggest problem in city/urban areas worldwide is traffic congestion, which causes massive financial losses to economies; leads to increased levels of air pollution; deaths and inefficient use of energy when transport consuming around 25% of all energy used in many developed countries. This waste is very significant; SkyCar is a cost effective, zero carbon, personal transport system designed specifically to tackle congestion for all people. Product/Services
SkyCar, Phase 1; a Personal Rapid Transport (PRT); 24/7 driverless pod cars; eco-friendly, point to point urban network system for the able and less able. Phase 2 has dual on/off beam Electrical Vehicle (EV) capability to and from the stops and home/business. SkyCar is designed to work with other transport modes. The car pods suspended under lightweight beams that circles and/or criss-cross 5m above the city/urban congestion between buildings. Target Market
The Global market is huge; new SmartCities; Mega Airports across the world and offers much better value when compared to LRT/trams and buses. A mathematical model/case studies of varying demographic densities; network configurations and feeder applications considered.Pods can be converted for other purposes; cargo etc. Business Model
See one-page Business Plan. Customers
The biggest problem in city/urban areas worldwide is traffic congestion, which causes massive financial losses to economies; leads to increased levels of air pollution; deaths and inefficient use of energy when transport consuming around 25% of all energy used in many developed countries. This waste is very significant - SkyCar is a cost effective, zero carbon, personal transport system designed specifically to tackle congestion for all people. Sales/Marketing Strategy
Competitors
Our most serious competitor is SkyTran, for which a 500m long technology demonstrator is being built by Israel Aerospace Industries. This system is also similar in operation to SkyCar, but uses Maglev for support and has only 2-seater pods. We presume that separate pods will be used for those with disabilities. Competitive Advantage
Globally, PRT is gaining momentum, particularly in India/Mexico/Sweden/USA and at least 4 systems on guideways, funded by governments. Ultra, UK, with a headway of 3 seconds severely reduces their potential capacity.SkyCar is completely different; suspended 0.5-second headway; which means higher capacity. A separate RoW above street level, with the flexibility to go over and around obstacles and inter- building for SmartCities and Airports.
