Sharjah’s eco-friendly sky pods to ferry passengers at 130kph

  • Date: 09-Jun-2021
  • Source: Gulf Today
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Sharjah’s eco-friendly sky pods to ferry passengers at 130kph

A SkyWay project's unicar is being tested at the site.

Gulf Today, Staff Reporter

Sharjah's first high-speed electric sky pod will travel at 130kph, reducing traffic time and making travel much easier.

Oleg Zaretskiy, SkyWay Green Tech's chief executive, said the cost of building the network was comparable or cheaper than laying new roads and required vastly less maintenance over time.

"From a distance, it may look like a cable car - but it is light-years away,“ he said.

Ropes and rolling wheels restrict that format to low speeds because of friction and load. This Unitsky String Technology is more like a railroad, with wheels rolling on a rail,“ he said.

"There is steel-to-steel friction so it means it consumes much less energy than cars. It is a power-saving solution, with an electrical motor that can be operated partly by solar or wind energy.“

Unitsky String Technologies of Belarus build a 2km suspended track at Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park.

A view of the SkyWay unicar.

It is not far from reality that the sustainable SkyWay system could be carrying its first passengers within weeks.

The firm tested new track in May and said that within three years, a 130km sky track from Sharjah to Khor Fakkan port could