JPods, Inc. In repetitive, congested, accident prone urban transportation why do we move a ton to move a person? CSX commercials note that they can "move a ton 423 miles on one gallon of fuel" yet we move a person only 18 miles per gallon.

Building a network of horiztontal-elevators (more people ride elevators each day than all other forms of public transportation combined) we can recover 85 cents of every dollar spent on oil as jobs and materials to build the networks and profits for creating the networks.

Last week JPods signed agreements that will result in building $3.6 billion in networks in the US and China. We expect a much larger commitment from China in the next 3 weeks. Read Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Study PB-244854 to learn how this technology approach was viewed as the solution to the 1973 Oil Embargo. The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) network became operational in 1975 and has delivered 110 million injury-free, oil-free passenger miles.

The typical human body has 20 trillion red blood cells that stream resource to need on demand. JPods networks provide the same on-demand delivery of resources and removal of waste. People, cargo and trash flow in and out on-demand.

These networks are very scalable. They can be as short as a Horizontal-Elevator™ between wings of a hospital or cover entire cities. JPods has signed documents to build networks in the US and China. In September 2009 about $3.6 billion in networks was signed into agreements. Over the next 15 years, those networks will grow to displace 70% of oil-powered urban transportation.

By the IEA and Congress, the estimate to sustain the oil-powered transportation infrastructure through 2020 is between $27 and $57 trillion. The cost to re-tool urban transportation to be solar-powered is about $11 trillion. This re-tooling will create about 5 million local jobs in the US; paid for by oil savings. Profits will be unusual, being displaced a century of monopoly central planning.

Cost to operate drops from $.56 per mile for cars, to $.04 per mile for JPods. For a century centrally planned transportation constrained transportation innovation just as centrally planned communication constrained innovation. The de-monopolization of AT&T in 1984 unleashed a wave of economic growth. The same will happen when bureaucracies shift to managing transportation and power generation by Performance Standards instead of Central Planning.