Introducing the Integrated Transportation System

Meet the SkyTrain

Integrated Transportation System: What it is and How its Imagined

ITS Description:

The SkyTrain proposal is bold and innovative, just like the future for which Ohio State prepares its students. The current network of buses, scooters, and bikes is ineffective, crowded, and complicated. An elevated monorail system would alleviate the congestion caused by the buses’ multiple stops between destinations, creating seamless routes that allow riders to cross large sections of campus in a much shorter time frame than with any other system.

Design Concept:

Elevated monorails are systems of the future and have been successfully implemented in major metropolitan areas across the globe. The design concept the team has created includes a sleek, emissions-efficient, quiet, and fast network of elevated monorails, called SkyTrains, that will move large groups of people quickly to their various desired destinations across large sections of campus.

The above concept sketch depicts a SkyTrain similar to those implemented elsewhere and has a maximum capacity of fifty persons per car. It is an electric craft and runs both forward and backward while maximizing power efficiency.

The above graphic illustrates the current route envisioned for the SkyTrain, designed with potential user input in mind. The route has stops (indicated by black boxes) at major campus focal points: the student union, the RPAC / McCorkle complex, Ohio Stadium, adjacent to the north residential area, and a fifth stop located on at medical campus parking, not pictured due to size constraints.