Patent ID: 8342101

Claim:
A integrated transportation system comprising: a guideway including a hollow structural triangle beam having an upper surface with opposing ends and a centrally located backbone rail; two upper triangle beams, each upper triangle beam located at one of the opposing ends of the upper surface and including a peripheral side rail, and a contact surface adjacent the side rail; a column interconnected to the hollow structural triangle beam for elevating the guideway; utilities infrastructure located within the hollow structural triangle beam and the column, the utilities infrastructure including power cables and communications lines; a vehicle with a central saddle located upon the guideway with the central saddle engaged over the backbone rail, the vehicle having bimodal wheels with integral first and second extents of differing diameters, whereby the first extents are adapted to contact the peripheral side rails and the second extents are adapted to contact the adjacent contact surfaces, the bimodal wheels enabling the vehicle to be propelled via the first extents, the second extents, or both the first and second extents.