Traffic network for urban settlement

Claim 1

A traffic network comprising a plurality of interchanges between a highway and a plurality of intersecting roadways, said highway peripherally encircling an urban settlement, with offstreet parking facilities at a plurality of locations between said interchanges, and local transport means connecting said parking facilities with the interior of said settlement, said local transport means comprising: at least one rail link with three parallel tracks including a central track and two lateral tracks; a continuously running passenger carrier on said central track; a pair of intermittently moving shuttle carriers on said lateral tracks; and several stations each forming a loading platform alongside one of said lateral tracks and an unloading platform alongside the other of said lateral tracks; said loading platform giving access to one shuttle carrier upon a halting thereof at the station for boarding by waiting passengers, said unloading platform being accessible to arriving passengers on the other shuttle carrier upon a halting of the latter at the station, said shuttle carriers being accelerable to the speed of said continuously running carrier and being provided with docking means for temporarily locking onto said continuously running carrier to facilitate the transfer of passengers therebetween.