Currently, the Northeast Corridor is home to 52% of worst highway bottlenecks in US and it’s only getting worse. Expect three times the delays in 30 years and a projected 22% increase in auto travel by 2040. Financially, this translates to $6 billion per year in wasted time – just by DC commuters! The average DC commuter spends 102 hours/year in traffic delays. We are looking to change that. With the SCMAGLEV, you will be able to take back your time.
Think of all of the things you could be doing with the time spent sitting in traffic. The Northeast Corridor is home to some of the world’s worst traffic. The average commuter in Washington, DC spends 102 hours per year in traffic congestion. That’s more than 4 days of the year sitting in traffic.
What if you could have those 4 days back?
When compared with other modes of regional transportation, SCMAGLEV stands alone in terms of speed and reliability. Efficiently and safely traveling at over 300 miles per hour, the SCMAGLEV puts most major cities and transportation hubs of the Northeast Corridor within one hour of each other.
Central Japan Railway’s (JRC) Tokaido Shinkansen can proudly refer to a record of extreme punctuality. Including delays due to uncontrollable circumstances, JRC had an average delay of 54 seconds per operational train in 2013. Built upon JRC’s systems and culture of reliability and safety, the SCMAGLEV aims to provide the model by which all regional transportation is measured.
According to a study performed by INRIX in 2017, traffic congestion costs the average commuter in the Washington, DC area $2,060 per year and costs the area $6.3 billion per year. Not only could we spend more time doing what we would rather be doing – we’ll have more money in our pockets to do it!