No word on cost. That’s a red flag signaling a possible gadgetbahn. But this might not even qualify as badgetbahn since it’s not public transport.
Remove 1 lane, put a train track and some electric trains on it. It’s more cost effective, energy efficient, and has a much better track record.
I have an idea: to make the process more efficient, we could have power lines overhead or - less ugly - buried in the ground.
And then to make transport more efficient than one multiton vehicle per person, we could put several people in the same vehicle.
We could call it, I don’t know, “public transport:” for example… Would that this idea existed…
While I’d like this scenario, I don’t see it realistically happen in my country, Slovenia. At least not to degree that we’d have a working public transport.That leaves us with cars and the idea mentioned in article has a lot of merit.
Why is this less likely than maintaining tarmac roads with electrical inductors an over the place?
Because public transport requires a lot of investments in infrastructure (trains) and a lot of that into vehicles, drivers and maintenance, plus there would be a lot of non-profitable lines, specially when you have a fragmented country. Also a vision from politicians. They would understand “relatively cheaper” one time investments better, and EVs are the thing politicians like to speak about all the time. IOW we won’t see working public transport ever, while this … it might happen. Emphasis on might.
They tested it, Tom Scott did a video on it:
The highway where trucks work like electric trains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg
But doesn’t seem to have gone very far, I haven’t heard much about it since:
Germany’s “eHighway” overhead charging system for trucks has seen continued development and testing, but it remains in the pilot phase as of late 2025.
This is shit teir stupid, it’s why someone will try it.
