Fifth and sixth weeks - 07/29- 08/09/2019

Last week (07/29 - 08/04) was a really interesting working time. We had the visite of Bill James from Oklahoma, funder of JPods and he has brought with him some gears. Electronic components, lazercutted parts for the track, a 3D printed podcart and his softweres. Overall, the most important thing was his enthusiam and knowlodge about PRT system and our commun (the whole team and him) desire to see this built.

A long this week, Ron, Bill, Ethan, Thomas, Husain and Jacques worked on JPods small scale track to get it operating. We met many issues on the assembly and needed to modify some parts. We figured out together how to resolve that and after some days, we came up with the track which still need some improvement but works fair enough as reference for improvement. 

Bill ajusting the track

The track 

The switching area



Beside the work in the design center, we talked and worked on the business aspect of all of this. We went to the pre-RFI organized by the City of San Jose and talked about the purpose of this and how we can answer to the RFI.

There is some picture of the team working these last days.



This week, David (Mapapa) and Jacques went to Milpitas to represent the Spartan Superway project and the San jose moblity company at the Community meeting organized Ron Means at Milpitas, about PRT Mobility for the Great Mall/Transit Area. Such a good meeting where we introduced Spartan Superway to many people. Ron Means is involved in PRT transportation since 20 years and share with us the desire to see this built. 

That's all about the overall lignes of these two weeks. 

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