Advantages for the Motorists?

Creating parking space for motorcars is like feeding pidgeons in the park; the more space you create, the more cars will appear.

If one wants to, one could enumerate lots of advantages for motorists in a community with fully built-out beamtraffic service. One could possibly find disadvantages as well, but off-hand we cannot think of any. Check the listings below; there are many things that deserve to be considered. This page is just a non-technical listing of advantages.		Gains when travelling Eliminated troubles and expenses Gains throughout the life Environmental considerations

1.1 Possibility to choose a vehicle according to one's desires or needs regarding purpose and size. 1.2 Lower travel costs, because of less use of resources (land, material, labor, energy). 1.3 Shorter travel time door-to-door (not having to put up with traffic lights and intervening traffic). 1.4 No stress factors when travelling in darkness, rain, snow and ice. No exhaust fumes in the vehicle. 1.5 Increased traffic safety (without opposing and crossing traffic, bikers, pedestrians). 1.6 Being able to use the travelling time as one sees fit. 1.7 Availability of TV, radio, telephone and Internet etc. during long-haul journeys. 1.8 Heated or airconditioned vehicles from the moment one enters it, and with comfy seats. 1.9 Possibility to recline the back support of the seat, and to twist the seat around if one wants to talk to a fellow passenger.. 1.10 One has often a good view over the surroundings from an elevated position, without railings obstructing the view (as is the case with today's train bridges). 1.11 Better personal safety (by reason of short walking distances, etc.). 1.12 Better travel information, such as when a vehicle will arrive to a place where one is waiting, and when it will arrive at its destination. 1.13 Direct information as to what various trips and travel choices will cost. 1.14 Travel costs directly charged to employer when one is travelling in the line of work.

1.15 Shorter walking distance than to most parking garages, once the beam system has been fully extended (Because the automatically controlled beamcar will drive up and to where you are when it's needed). 1.16 Easily accessible information about all travel targets together with route descriptions. 1.17 It is possible to get information about the position of any vehicle at any time, and also descriptions of the surroundings while travelling. For the benefit of tourists, this could be made available on recordings in several languages. Museums already use this technique to guide visitors about exhibited objects. 1.18 One can always communicate directly with information personnel. 1.19 As with today's trains, one could asked to be awakened at a certain time during long-haul journeys. This would not be an alternative if one is driving one's own car! 1.20 As with today's trains, one gets alerted a few minutes before arrival during long-haul journeys. 1.21 Combination trips, such as beam/train/beam or beam/car/beam, would be possible to book.

2.1 One does not have to bother about taking driver's license. 2.2 One saves the trouble of buying a car. 2.3 One saves the trouble of servicing the car gas, oil, water..... 2.4 One saves the trouble of scraping ice from window panes. 2.5 One saves the trouble of showelling snow from parking lots. 2.6 One saves the trouble of heating or cooling the car before it can be used. 2.7 One saves the trouble of washing and cleaning the car. 2.8 One saves the trouble of changing tyres which in snowy climates has to be done every winter and spring. 2.9 One saves the trouble of getting back pains because of a rigid driving position. 2.10 One saves the trouble of looking for and paying for parking. 2.11 One saves the trouble of taking the car to its annual safety evaluation (in many countries).

2.12 One saves the trouble of leaving and fetching the car at the workshop and fight over repair bills and insurances. 2.13 One saves the money of paying for gas, insurance, repair, road taxes,..... 2.14 One avoids having a bad conscience because of alcohol-intoxicated driving, speeding, running traffic lights, unlawful parking. 2.15 One does not have to worry about losing one's driver's licence because of the above mentioned. 2.16 One saves the trouble of selling or scrapping the car when that time comes.

3. Gains Throughout the Life

4. Environmental Considerations

The Beam Traffic System: 4.1 Does not consume oil for comming generations. 4.2 Uses less alternatively useable resources, such as land, labor and energy. 4.3 No crowding of the streets. 4.4 Does not create barriers for farm vehicles, people and animals. 4.5 Does not contribute to spreading of urban areas which in turn force more people to get a motorcar. 4.6 Does not contribute to the centralisation of service functions, which forces more people to travel further. 4.7 Does not spread poisonous exhaust fumes which causes cancer, allergy, astma, etc. 4.8 Does not spread poisonous metals. 4.9 Does not spread chemicals such as petrol, oil, detergents, glycol, etc. 4.10 Does not shower pedestrians and other vehicles with dirty rainwater from puddles. 4.11 Does not contribute to the deterioration of buildings and monuments of stone and masonry, metals in statues. 4.12 Does not indirectly contribute to poisons such as dioxins, PCB, etc. from steelworks that smelts wrecked cars, containing plastic compounds. 4.13 Does not contribute to high service costs to the community because of traffic supervision, traffic courts, hospitals, etc. 4.14 Does not contribute tothe spreading of asphalt on valuable land.

4.15 Does not contribute to the acidification of forests. 4.16 Does not contribute to quicksilver- and aluminum poisoning of lakes and subsoil water. 4.17 Does not contribute to oil damages to the high seas. 4.18 Does not contribute to the deterioration of the ozon layer. 4.19 Does not contribute to the hothouse effect, caused by carbon dioxide exhaust. 4.20 Does not contribute to the spread of unsustainable technology to the developing world.

As an illustration to point 4.11 above: The number of motor vehicles in the Indian city of Agra how increased to the point that the famous monument Taj Mahal is now slowly disintegrating. The marble is being greytinted and cracks in the structure are becoming visible because of the acid exhaust gases from the city's motor vehicles. In conclusion, motorist will be hit by more and more demands for payment in one form or another, for investments and maintenance costs for traffic conduits and vehicles, and increasingly more impositions for all environmental consequences.

As an alternative to this development, the community should offer everybody an alternative way of travelling, considering that such an alternative is really available.