**4.2 Replacement of continental air connections by fast night trains**

The ambition of the ComplexTrans system is to take over most of the road transport of passengers and goods over medium (from 150 km for passenger transport and from 50 to 100 km for freight transport) and long distances.

In addition, the ComplexTrans system is also capable of taking over a significant part of continental air passenger transport. Thanks to the possibility of using night time for transport in fast ComplexTrans trains (and thus a head start of 8 × 200 = 1600 km), rail transport up to a distance of almost 3000 km is more timeefficient than air transport and up to a distance of about 2300 km. It is possible to make a working round trip in one day and two nights, with more than 6 h available for the actual handling of work matters at the destination (**Figure 14**).

In this way, up to about 90% of continental European air destinations can be replaced by rail, and passenger volumes are even higher, because in the destinations with the highest passenger numbers (Berlin, Brussels, Zurich, Milan, Paris, …) it will be possible to replace air transport by rail to an even greater share. (**Figure 15**).

#### **Figure 14.**

*ComplexTrans day-night trains with an operating speed of 230 km/h and three operating modes (direct, stopping and during night slowed stopping train) will replace very fast trains and planes up to distance of 3000 km and make super fast technologies (Maglev, Hyperloop) unnecessary.*

*ComplexTrans Total Ground Mobility Solution Based on Mutual Adaptation and Deep… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.110184*

#### **Figure 15.**

 *From Brussels by fast train in one day and two nights to almost every corner of Europe and back. Red—3,5 h, violet—3,5 h + one night by slowed stop train, green—3,5 h + one night by stop train, blue—3,5 h + one night by direct train).* 

### **4.3 Urban transport**

#### *4.3.1 Urban passenger transport*

 The road passenger transport in the ComplexTrans system is based on private cars called coupemobiles—i.e. passenger cars with a large cabin for five passengers with extendable axles, which have four roof grip holes for vertical handling and, if necessary, couplers for coupling into road trains (platoons). These features enable the following changes in urban transport.

#### *4.3.2 Parking*

 Coupemobiles allow to reduce parking requirements in two ways—by retracted axles during parking and by lifted parking ( **Figure 16** ).

#### **Figure 16.**

 *Parking perpendicular to the sidewalks reduces the need for parking spaces by a factor of two (left). Advanced car overhead parking systems (right); parking over pavements, parking towers or balcony parking—reducing the need for parking areas at least by a half. During advanced parking, the batteries of the coupémobiles are automatically connected to the power grid.* 
