Patent ID: 8312817

Claim:
A transportation system comprising: a vehicle runway; a first vehicle and at least one second vehicle, wherein said first vehicle has at least one berth for receiving said second vehicle, and said berth has an opening along a portion of the first vehicle's length for allowing said second vehicle to enter and exit said first vehicle from a side and a bottom of said first vehicle; said second vehicle has support wheels with all wheel parallel steering to align the second vehicle alongside of the first vehicle and to prepare the second vehicle for entry and exiting the opening of the first vehicle while said first and second vehicle move along said runway; said first vehicle further has a shelf at each end of said opening for holding said second vehicle; and said second vehicle has a lift on each end to lift the wheels of said second vehicle and to set said second vehicle aligned in said opening across said shelves with said wheels being lifted above said runway; and wherein, the improvement includes a telescoping alignment arm provided on said second vehicle for extending into said opening to align said second vehicle with said opening, a member of said first vehicle configured to engage said arm for telescopically pushing the arm back into said second vehicle as the second vehicle being aligned with and entering the opening of said first vehicle, and a control configured to turn said wheels of said second vehicle parallel to said first vehicle in corresponding to a push back motion of said arm in said second vehicle as it aligned under said first vehicle.