The AVT SolaTrek, Advanced Vehicle Transport, Transports You and Your Car…

SolaTrek was presented at University Nevada Las Vegas, UNLV, Transportation Research Center on Monday October 19, 2009. Click here to view a PDF of the announcement and click here to read the newspaper article in the Las Vegas Sun about the presentation.

Las Vegas Sun

Unusual rail proposals not likely to challenge existing plans

By Richard N. Velotta

http://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/oct/16/unusual-rail-proposals-not-likely-challenge-existi/

Fri, Oct 16, 2009 (3 a.m.)

We have all heard about those two high-speed rail proposals that promise to whisk passengers between Las Vegas and Southern California in little more than an hour.

But next week Las Vegans will get a look at three concepts that supporters think could be the future of mass transportation.

UNLV’s Transportation Research Center and the Ward 5 Chamber of Commerce have held public meetings to explain DesertXpress, the proposed $4 billion steel-wheels-on-rails system that would link Las Vegas with Victorville, Calif., and the American Magline Group’s $12 billion maglev train between Las Vegas and Anaheim, Calif.

Both have boosters and critics.

DesertXpress backers say the proposal uses tried-and-true technology and that getting the train built is only the first step in linking up with the planned California high-speed rail network that would be built within 50 miles of Victorville at Palmdale. Eventually, supporters say, there would be a link to Los Angeles and Anaheim.

Maglev boosters, meanwhile, say DesertXpress uses 19th-century technology when 21st-century vehicles are available. The higher cost, they say, would be offset by less-expensive maintenance costs.

Backers say maglev, unlike DesertXpress, could negotiate the grades at Cajon Pass at the entry to the Los Angeles Basin and take passengers to destinations they actually want to go to.

But at 6 p.m. on Oct. 19 at UNLV’s Science and Engineering Building, maglev and DesertXpress take a back seat to three high-speed rail proposals that some say are being developed by visionaries while others say they are just nuts.

Presentations are scheduled by California-based Frank Randak, an advocate of AVT SolaTrek, a highway-decluttering maglev hybrid that motorists would be able to board while the train is in motion; Texas-based Robert Pulliam of Tubular Rail that puts the rails on the vehicle and the locomotion in a series of O-rings stretched across the countryside; and America’s Sunlight Bullet Expressway, a subsidiary of a Las Vegas-based operation that would blend rail transportation with electrical transmission lines linking cities with solar-power generation stations.

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I submitted an abstract to the 2009 Fall Transportation Conference at UNLV about a month ago titled:
“Solar Powered Highways, Public Transit and Freight Transport”. The abstract was accepted by the conference committee and they agreed to display the SolaTrek 1/10th scale model during the 2 day conference at the Cox Pavilion that is part of the Thomas and Mack Center, where the Running Rebels play basketball.

The SolaTrek presentation was without a doubt the most interesting and entertaining presentation at the 2009 Transportation Conference – maybe of any UNLV transportation conference. The conference is filled with detail studies of transportation topics – not exciting. SolaTrek was the only new transportation concept presented. There was only time for 2 questions in our session of 2 presentations, but there were none. I think the audience was in a state of shock and/or they wanted to go home early.

The SolaTrek model looked great and attracted lots of attention with the bright headlights and looping DVD animation and film. On Friday after the conference, the SolaTrek model was moved to the nearby UNLV Science and Engineering Building,  which is part of the Howard Hughes School of Engineering Transportation Research Center. It will be on display in the lobby from September 29th thru October 19th.

The next SolaTrek presentation in Las Vegas will be on October 19th at 6-8 PM in the auditorium of the the UNLV Science and Engineering Building. Please see the draft of the October 19th program, which is attached.

We are  talking to UNLV and the MGM Grand about hosting the full size SolaTrek Proof of Concept Demonstration in Las Vegas.

Thanks for the support,
Frank Randak, President
AVT SolaTrek

UNLV-Oct-19-Flyer

The AVT Advanced Vehicle Transport will be presented at the Big E Extravaganza on September 28, 2008 in Oxnard, CA. The Big E ExtravaGanza will be held on September 27th and 28th.

See www.e-extravaganza.com for more information

Ken Powell of KKZZ AM 1400 in Ventura interviewed Frank Randak regarding the AVT Tuesday, August 19th, 2008, from 3 – 4 PM. The interview was very interesting and informative.

This interview resulted from an invitation to the AVT Presentation at CLU that Frank delivered to the Rotary Club of Ventura.

The Advanced Vehicle Transport – the AVT – A Solar Powered Energy and Traffic Solution

Presentation and Seminar

California Lutheran University

Wednesday September 24, 2008 at 7:30 PM

Lundring Center in Gilbert Sports & Fitness Center

Access via Campus Drive north from Lynn Road

Click on the picture to view and/or print the invitation