this is 10000x better then solar road ways xD

Mmm, I initially thought this was a point-to-point, no stops, solution but it seems you have to change pods if your destination is further down the line?
Also, the pods switch between tracks by themselves, right? The rails don't do it for them like in traditional rail systems?

Why does this system look SO familiar? Oh, right. Disneyland. 1967.

J Pods need to be bigger for more passengers & allow for cargo IE bags, groceries etc. & run 24/7 hours.

MG127: The Solar Roadways concept is meant to power the country,not a lone monorail system!

Matt: Vehicles switch, traveling non-stop from origin to destination.
Stephen: Packet size, network density and number of interconnected nodes are the critical factors in networks. The bigger the packet, the more intermittent the service and lower the capacity. Mass transit and mass production have the same defect; the bigger the batch, the more difficult to manage quality. Your circulatory system has 20 trillion red blood cells. Small packets stream resources to needs on-demand better than large batches.
MG127: JPods cut transportation costs by 10x. This pays for the solar collection. My guess is about 500,000 miles of JPods (and other podcar networks) will be built. The 140,000 miles of freight railroads will be the logistic arteries. About 4 times this is needed to be the logistical capillaries. This is about 25% of the nearly 2 million lane miles of urban roads lack the energy to move-a-ton-to-move-a-person. The more options we try, the more likely we are to find solutions.

I think this is a neat way to get around town, especially a big city that has a lot of traffic. It could even be an attraction at theme parks and places of interest.

Busch Gardens Virginia has a swiss made ski lift (vann der rool) with open air carriages. Power comes from a continous driven cable with provisions for evenly spaced carriages that hook onto the cable. It takes a very long time to get on, but once in the air, it is quite a ride. However, for mass transit, its a joke. For a more practical solution, the Northrop-Grumman TTWIG SYSTEM is much better with far less cost. The TTWIG rides on top of the rail supported by aerodynamic alleviation, very similar to the Bayou Skimmer

build a rail from NY to LA, put a jet engine behind the pod and presto 3, 000 miles in 1 hour or less

a simple version of skytran