Inside Sharjahs futuristic new sky pods

his is what Sharjah s future mode of transport will look like. Once the highspeed electric sky pods become functional, these Sky Pods will cover 2. 4km in less than a minute travelling at 120km, hr. Currently, it travels at a speed of 40km, hour, covering a nascent track of 400 metres. The passenger model can bear a load of four tonnes (with passengers), and the cargo model is capable of delivering 12metre containers. Initial safety trials are complete even as a longer test track is in the pipeline expected to commence operations ahead of the start of Expo 2020 in October 2021. The pathbreaking skyway system was conceptualized in Minsk by Dr Anatoli Unitsky, a scientist and a transport philosopher. More than 600 engineers and experts involved in this revolutionary technology is working at the test site in Belarus. Read full story here : , skypod, sharjah, news, msajjad WATCH MORE AT TELEGRAM: t. me, KhaleejTimes FACEBOOK: