CO₂: Substantial annual savings of up to 18%, from 1 to 4 billion tonnes of CO₂, and costs savings, with faster, targeted deliveries, could be achieved, if the global food industry installed regional, and in due course, international, food pipeline systems delivering goods direct to supermarket and other loading bays. FOODTUBES capsules could be powered by air, other fluids or linear-induction. Of the savings, 23% come from replacing road-lorries (HGVs) with lightweight capsules, and 77% from the traffic decongestion impact, freeing all traffic.

MWVs: Society transports water and food daily. The heaviest of these cargos, water, is mostly transported in pipelines, not in rail or road vehicles. Food could also be transported in pipelines; in lightweight capsules. The engineering principle of MWV (minimum weight vehicles) reduces the weight of the vehicles relative to the cargos. Pipelines are the ultimate MWV being motionless “conveyors” which pump their cargos with little energy, noise or pollution. Pipelines inexpensively, continuously and efficiently deliver water hundreds of kilometers and in and out of most buildings. Oil pipelines transport their heavy cargo long distances, across difficult, wild terrain - and safely, out of sight, through urban areas.

OPERATION: Food pipeline-capsules can be powered pneumatically or by electromagnetism, with the cargos contained in electronically addressed, high speed, lightweight capsules (e.g. 1 meter diameter. x 2 metres long), which navigate by signalling to direction gates. Like existing large diameter water, gas and oil pipes, FOODTUBES and the capsules can be built by local economies. The network/s will be computer controlled and systems standardised globally. If most food-road-rail transport was replaced, the equivalent capsules will use 40 to 80 times less energy, greatly reduce street-level pollution and free-up congested roads, to the benefit of all. Operated as a business; renting capsule space will be highly profitable.

CAPITAL: Installing FOODTUBES is likely to cost less than continuously repairing existing, heavily used and congested major roads - damage caused mainly by HGVs of up to 6 axles and 40 tonnes laden weight. Like large diameter water, gas and oil pipes; FOODTUBES can be buried for long distances, be laid underwater, linked internationally and take shorter routes than roads take to farms, processors, distribution hubs and supermarkets.

FOODTUBES could become the most effective way to move food within and between regions and will address issues including Free-Trade, Food-Miles, Food-Mountains, Disaster Relief, Food Cooperatives, Global-Warming and Street-Level-Pollution.

CONTACTS, CALCULATIONS & NOTES:

http://www.noelhodson.com/index_files/foodtubes-project-team.htm

or telephone: Noel Hodson, Coordinator, +44 1865 760994

FOODTUBES PROJECT PARTICIPANTS



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	Dr. Juan Eduardo Barrera Cortez CommerceNet Spain General Secretary e-mail: eduardo@commercenet.org TE:+.34.91.434.1149 Fax:+34.91.552.8006 GSM: +34.629.055.697 Plaza de Reyes Magos, 12-1B, 28007 Madrid Dr. Barrera, of the Fundacion Universidad-Empresa de Madrid (FUE), is the FOODTUBES executive responsible for creating the FOODTUBES Global Standards Agency and for Project dissemination, publicity and conferences. CAREER SUMMARY: More than 20 years of diversified, world‑based, and result‑oriented international business and high‑level government experience in areas of advanced technologies at multilateral lending agencies (World Bank, Inter American Development Bank and as a consultant/expert for United Nations, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Commission), large companies (KAISER and ISCOR), and several Governments, in Europe and Latin-America, covering: due diligences, credit scoring, institutional risk and project portfolio analysis, investment projects identification, formulation, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation, procurement of goods and services, contract negotiations, as well as e- business development, corporate finance, project financing, financial engineering design, transference of (ICT) technology, joint‑venture promotion, structuring and negotiation, strategic planning and lobbying/public affairs. Member of the Internet Society (ISOC) Member of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome Ex- staff member of the World Bank (IBRD) On the academic side, he holds a MBA, a PhD and an Engineering degree. Fully bi-lingual Spanish-English and working knowledge of French. Present position: CommerceNet Spain General Secretary International President of the European Community Telework /Telematics Forum (ECTF). An initiative of DGXIII of the European Commission External advisor to the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) External Reviewer/Evaluator/Rapporteur of the European Commission Strategic advisor to La Caixa, largest saving bank, third bank and largest industrial group of Spain.
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	Dr. Jonathan CARTER, Imperial College, London. Director of Container World (transport routing). Lecturer, Imperial College 1993- Reservoir Engineer, AEA Technology 1989-1993 Lecturer in Mathematics, Coventry Polytechnic 1988-1989 PhD Semiconductor Physics, Warwick University 1985-1988 Design optimisation, British Shipbuilders 1984-1985 BSc Mathematics, Southampton University 1984 Research Interests Application of evolutionary optimisation methods (Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming) to numerical problems in earth science and engineering. Use of agent based simulation to understand the emergent behaviour of complex adaptive systems
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	Professor Susan Collier Collier Campbell Design, London. Susan Collier is an internationally renowned designer with in-depth experience of the business requirements of manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and major supermarket groups. Her clients include famous brand name corporations in Europe, the USA and Pacific Rim countries. Professor Collier will co-ordinate the work of visual designers and of design competitions for FOODTUBES and will interpret the instructions of those system owners and users, such as TESCO or Carrefour, who will want distinctive cargo-capsules, perhaps displaying advertisements and certainly indicating different technical types of capsules and special handling instructions.
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	Alan Foster Managing Director of Force Engineering - UK. Force Engineering was founded in 1979 to promote sales, development and use of environmentally friendly Linear Induction Motors (LIMs). Force has supplied and advised many companies throughout the world on conveying, transportation, people moving, metal separation, and other LIM applications. The company is firmly established as a world leader in LIM technology. Force Engineering Ltd is a major player in the world of linear induction motors. Managed by Alan Foster since 1979, Force has now supplied over 18,000 Linear Induction Motors (LIMs) worldwide. Principal applications include people movers, roller coasters, extrusion pullers, baggage handling systems, postal sorters, and military equipment. All LIMs are purpose designed and built in-house for each customer by a team of specialist engineers. 9 November, 2007
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	Andrew FRAYLING - Britain & Canada. Andrew Frayling, MD of SES Construction Software Ltd (SWIFT) is the FOODTUBES liaison officer and manager of the process to create an engineering computer simulation. Andrew has long practical experience of creating software and successfully managing software writers. Andrew was trained in Economics at Guelph University and Computer Sciences at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. He has managed a number of small businesses, a township in northern BC and has worked as a lecturer in Office Automation. Throughout the 1980’s he worked under contract for a number of large companies designing, implementing and training users within a customised computer system environment. From 1995 to 1998 he worked full time at Protocol Communications Ltd involved in European Commission Advance Communications Technologies programmes and helped write the DIPLOMAT project. The project was involved with Strategic Policy development for large companies interested in Telework. Since then he has been managing SES Construction Software Ltd. Supplying engineering and logistical software to the UK Construction Market.
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	Sarah HADLAND LLB – Partner - IPR Pitmans Lawyers, Reading, UK. Sarah Hadland is an experienced, international, intellectual property rights (IPR) lawyer. Sarah’s clients include multinational public companies and small new-start clients. Sarah qualified as a solicitor in 1995 in specialist intellectual property firm, Bird & Bird. From 1996 – 2006 she specialized in intellectual property law at Eversheds in London and in 2007 became Director of Intellectual Property at Pitmans in Reading. Qualifications: Degree in law from the College of Law in London Degree in French from the University of Birmingham. Diploma in intellectual property law from the University of Bristol. Member of the INTA Parallel Imports Europe Sub-Committee Associate Member of ITMA. Sarah has experience in both contentious and non-contentious matters, including licensing, agreements for the exploitation of intellectual property rights, management of IP disputes particularly in relation to design rights, trade marks, domain names and copyright and management of substantial IP portfolios. DD: +44 (0) 118 957 0294 Email: Shadland@pitmans.com
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	Noel HODSON, SW2000 Intelligent Transport – FOODTUBES Coordinator – 16 Brookside, OXFORD OX3 7PJ, UK. Noel Hodson, director SW2000 Intelligent Transport (SW2000) is a professional project planner and project manager with 30 years experience. Noel has a wide range of practical experiences including coordinating EC IST projects. He has taught Project Management and Business-Planning at business schools and has trained many business consultants in these skills. Noel was Managing Director and Production Director of Mallalieu Engineering, a motor vehicle prototype workshop which developed Microdot, possibly the world’s first hybrid petrol/electric car – giving him an enduring interest in energy and fuel efficient transport. Following 25 years as founding and managing partner in an accountancy practice, then as a Business Expansion Specialist, including promoting an £80M Oxford Research Science Park in conjunction with Wolfson College; in 1988 Noel Hodson set up SW2000 – to help to save the planet by reducing business travel. From 1988 he conducted Flexible Working, Telework and Information Society workshops in Oxford, Washington & New York, attended by HR directors from more than 150 major employers. Clients have since included BT, EC funded IST projects, WHO (Geneva), World Bank (DC), TfL, Bank Austria, Dresdner Bank, Nat-West, Prudential, many other major UK and USA employers and hundreds of smaller businesses, innovators and inventors. He creates Excel based Project-Planning-Tools for clients. Tel +44 (0) 1865 760994 email noel@noelhodson.com.
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	Don HUGHSTON Business Development Consultant. Don is interested in scalable, international, innovative businesses and social initiatives. He has worked on several continents in varied industries and works with and is retained by venture capitalists, bankers, politicians and industrialists in the USA, London and elsewhere. His current interests include a national emergency warning system to alert millions of homes simultaneously; a program to rapidly build thousands of affordable, social-housing homes in mezzo-America; an IT enabled medical and psychotherapeutic training and network for autistic infants and their families; and, of course, FOODTUBES.
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Welcome to Advantica. Advantica is a global engineering consultancy, service and solution provider, supporting clients in the gas, oil, water and electric industries.	Robb JUDD, Senior Consultant at ADVANTICA GROUP and STONER SOFTWARE Robb Judd, representing ADVANTICA GROUP (ADVAN) and its software unit STONER-SOFTWARE (STON) is an executive expert in the design of pipeline systems for ADVANTICA. Advantica Dr Robert Judd. Dr Judd has gained broad experience of the gas and energy industries over a period of 20 years, with emphasis on technology development. This has ranged from upstream gas processing through to storage and downstream energy technologies. Much of Dr Judd’s work has focused on developing, coordinating and delivering technical projects, many of these cross-business, cross-sector, collaborative and multi-centred. Advantica was originally formed in the early 1970’s, to operate British Gas’ (BG) extensive R&D and technical programmes, including the development of the bespoke software used by Transco in network management. Through the purchase in 2001 of Stoner, a US-based technology company, Advantica’s consulting services and bespoke software applications were complemented by Stoner’s market-leading off-the-shelf software products for electricity, natural gas, water and petroleum industries.Advantica’s solutions improve clients’ knowledge of network performance and customer behaviour, providing the foundations for direct improvement of financial performance, operational efficiency, customer service and regulatory compliance. Leading energy and water delivery companies are working with Advantica to implement integrated solutions, allowing them to rapidly determine, distribute and act on network performance knowledge. Advantica supplies a wide range of consultancy services to support the planning, design and operation of oil and gas installations from up-stream through transmission, distribution and product utilisation. This includes the application of advanced engineering expertise, hazard and risk management, integrity management, asset optimisation, legislative compliance, metering and due diligence.
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	Professor Henry Liu. President, Freight Pipeline Company (FPC), has a B.S. Degree in Hydraulic Engineering from National Taiwan University, and an M.S. and a Ph. D in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University. He is a U.S. Citizen, and a Professional Engineer (PE) registered in the State of Missouri. Henry Liu can claim with justification to be one of the most experienced scientists, industrialists and experts in pipeline-capsule transport. A search of the Internet will show his body of work. Prior to starting up FPC in 2001, Dr. Liu was Professor of Civil Engineering, and Director of Capsule Pipeline Research Center (CPRC), University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC). CPRC was funded by the National Science Foundation for 9 years as a State/Industry University Cooperative Research Center, during which Dr. Liu served as the Director and led a team of faculty and students to perform extensive interdisciplinary research in capsule pipelines, including hydraulic capsule pipeline (HCP), pneumatic capsule pipeline (PCP), and coal log pipeline (CLP).

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	Katarzyna Rzeplińska - Rykała, MSc. Eng., has graduated from Warsaw University of Technology with specialization in Environmental science; she holds a second Master Degree in the field of Indoor Environment from Technical University of Denmark. She has wide experience in organization of European Cooperation within Framework Programs. Since 2004 she is a deputy of the Head of Coordination European Team and she is involved in technology transfer, as well as technology dissemination and exploitation. She is also involved in international projects focused on building of pro-innovative society.
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	Agnieszka Sprońska, M.A., has graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Warsaw University at 2002. She has wide experience in development of the Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI) for industrial IT systems. She is also experienced in the filed of artificial intelligence and application of the ontology as well as semantics for information technology systems. Since 2004 she was involved in multimedia and visual knowledge acquisition also for industrial applications.
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