00:01Old railway tracks rehabilitated, thanks to these futuristic capsules running on a single rail.
00:07A test that's being conducted in North Rhine-Westphalia.
00:11This rural German region is committed to a new automated and on-demand means of public transport.
00:17Something known as MonoCab.
00:30A MonoCab closes this gap between bus and big road and we do it at the same price as for
00:38a bus.
00:44Several tests have already been carried out on these cabins.
00:48The user books a place via an app.
00:51The engineer Thorsten Fosterling is the creator of this idea,
00:55which breathes new life into railway tracks that have been abandoned for decades.
01:00And thanks to an electric means of transport,
01:02equipped with state-of-the-art technology,
01:04and designed to operate 24 hours a day.
01:07What is important besides speed is the speed,
01:11the seamless mobility.
01:13So if we need a seamless mobility,
01:16we need a good overall service.
01:19Railway, bus, bike, auto.
01:22And it is important that the rural area
01:24can reach doctors and doctors.
01:28The cabins weigh three tons and are designed to travel at 60 kilometers per hour.
01:34But how do they work?
01:36And how are they stabilized when traveling on just a single rail?
01:39We use actually a combination.
01:42One is gyroscopes.
01:43A gyroscope is stabilized if we just make it spinning.
01:48But we use it here in a technical way, of course, much bigger.
01:51And the second one is a trim mass.
01:53So you imagine a large, large block which is moving naturally in this vehicle.
01:59The total budget for the monocab owl is close to 4 million euros.
02:03The EU cohesion policy has financed half.
02:05The Energy Research Institute at the University of Applied Sciences in Lippa has financed 10%.
02:11And the remaining 40% has been financed by the North Rhine-Westphalia region.
02:16The Lippa district is relying on Monocab to boost economic growth and social cohesion in the area.
02:23We are in a rural area.
02:25We have 16 cities and communities.
02:27And you are very quickly, flexible for all citizens, whether students, whether students, whether students or older people.
02:33And you are exactly right at the goal-oriented.
02:36We think that we can put the test company in 2028 well on the feet.
02:43And in 2032 the project will actually be implemented at us.
02:48Monocab owl has received a Rejo Stars Award.
02:51A European Award for excellence in projects funded by the European Union.
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