• The Rhone-based company Supraways has developed an air shuttle designed to transport people and goods.

  • A new mode of public transport that wants to combine speed, reliability, sustainability and economy for users and investors.

  • Supraways vehicles are already of interest to large cities around the world whose growing population is accelerating the need for alternative mobility.

Someday not so long ago, to take public transport, you will have to look up. If flying cars are still the domain of science fiction, aerial vehicles are about to materialize in the Rhône. Supraways, a company based in Ecully, has been working there for six years, and in the coming months will build a full-scale section of this new economic and sustainable mode of transport, unprecedented in this form in the world.

Claude Escala, president and founder of Supraways, handles a model and his vision seems to materialize: an autonomous shuttle with 7 to 9 seats, electric propulsion, carried by an aerial infrastructure that spans public space.

"The energy is non-polluting, the vehicle guides itself: the risk of breakdown and the cost of the driver are eliminated, with rails that are always clean, protected from dead leaves, waste, etc."

During off-peak hours, the shuttles carry freight

A transport system on demand, fast (50 km / h in urban areas, 100 km / h in interurban) and reliable: Claude Escala has planned everything. “The aerial infrastructure, in green steel and photovoltaic panels, gives the shuttle a fluidity that it would never have on the ground. " At what price ? “French politicians think it's less risky to build subways and trams, but their costs are phenomenal! Our project divides the investment by ten. In off-peak hours, a mode of public transport is expensive, in terms of energy and personnel. There too, Supraways found the solution: “The cabins will always run in off-peak hours, but to transport freight. "

Air vehicles want to be the future alternative to the car: "We can beat the car because we are fast and we organize our networks in such a way that a vehicle can go from A to Z without an intermediate stop".

For those who prefer the privacy of their cabin, the shuttle can be privatized.

The seats are secure, equipped with an anti-fraud system and surveillance cameras to reassure night travelers.

Establishment in congested or abandoned areas

It remains to be seen where to install this rail perched 6 meters high, so very visible. Claude Escala is counting on “the peripheries which are congested all over the world. In France, there are also 7,000 km of disused railways, industrial zones, as many sites ready to accommodate modern infrastructures. A pillar would be planted every 40 meters. "Fauna and flora can pass, water too", he explains.

Supraways imagines the start of a network connecting Lyon with a city in the Metropolis such as Charbonnières, or with Saint-Exupéry airport.

Before going much further… "Supraways are of great interest abroad", confides Claude Escala.

Two-thirds of the world needs a fast and affordable transport system.

The Emirates, China and even the United States have understood our concept but, for the moment, I want to realize it in France.

The funding that the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region has just granted us will be the trigger.

It is no longer time to procrastinate, you have to be bold!

“At Supraways, daring is already in the air.

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