Patent ID: 7866910

Claim:
A community intermodal transit system, comprising: (a) a city or town center including at least one ergonomic hybrid corridor, said corridor comprising: I. a vehicular roadway; II. contiguously, symmetrically, outwardly of said roadway, respective parking segments; III. contiguously, symmetrically, outwardly about said parking segments, respective first greenscape segments including selectable landscape and hardscape variables; IV. contiguously, symmetrically, outwardly about said first greenscape segments, respective greenway transit segments for selectable use by pedestrians and vehicles operating at pedestrian-interactive speeds; V. contiguously, symmetrically, outwardly from said transit segments, respective second greenscape segments including therein selectable landscape and hardscape variables; VI. contiguously, symmetrically, outwardly beyond said second greenscape segments, respective pedestrian arcade segments that are at least partially covered, said segments having a width of between about 10 and about 15 feet, said segments defining a substantially continuous yz plane interface between linear pedestrian rights-of-way or easements, and substantially contiguous private commercial store frontage at ground level, thereby defining the outermost x-axis extent of said corridor; VII. an enclosure ratio, of the z-axis height dimension of said continuous yz plane interface of said corridor, to an entire x-axis dimension of all segments of said corridor, that does not exceed a range of about thirty to about fifty percent at any point of said yz plane interface; and VIII. a greenway ratio of combined x-axis dimensions of said vehicular roadway and said parking segments, to said entire x-axis of said corridor that does not exceed about fifty percent; (b) a plurality of low speed mixed-mode corridors extending substantially radially outwardly from said city center; (c) a corresponding plurality of substantially circumferentially disposed parking structures located proximally to outer ends of said mixed-mode corridors; and (d) an outer transportation network including a plurality of modes of transportation, each mode including a transfer point to at least one of said parking structures.