Thousand Oaks , CA - September 24, 2008

AVT-Solatrek is sponsoring a Presentation and Seminar at California Lutheran University on the AVT-Solatrek transportation system. If you would like to attend, please mail this invitation, or call or email your RSVP.

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Thousand Oaks , CA - The AVT-Solatrek Blog has been released. Join Frank Randak and many of the top experts in the field of alternative traffic and energy solutions.

Oxnard, CA - The AVT-Solatrek is being presented am energy and environment conference that is being sponsored by KKZZ AM 1400 in Ventura California on September 27-28, 2008.

Here's what's new for the Big E Extra Extravaganza - a sustainable living expo set for this September 28 & 28 in Oxnard:

New Workshops just added:

+ The Advanced Vehicle Transport - a solar powered traffic and energy solution - Frank Randak, AVT Corporation

Westlake Village, CA - The Advanced Vehicle Transport (AVT) Corporation of Thousand Oaks, California hosted an Investor Presentation at the Hyatt Hotel on Saturday January 22, 2005. Potential investors came from as far as Beijing, China to have an opportunity to view and learn about this technology that could solve the traffic problems of the 21st century.

Photos by Edo Tsoar www.EdoPhotographer.com

The AVT story was the lead story on Los Angeles CBS News Channel 2 on Monday night, Feb 16, at 5:40 PM. The story will be re-played on Sunday night, Feb 22, on CBS News Special Assignment at 6:30 PM, just before 60 Minutes.
The CBS News video is available here:

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AVT-Solatrek starts new radio commercial on KNX-AM 1070

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The AVT was presented to a group of 60 Boeing engineers at a luncheon on August 22, 2003.

The AVT will appear on the TV show Positive Spin in September 2003 in Los Angeles and San Fransisco. Positive Spin is produced by the Unity Foundation www.unityfoundation.org.

Frank Randak, President and CEO of AVT-Solatrek has been asked to speak and display the Advanced Vehicle Transport (AVT) Prototype at the World Future Society 2003 Meeting in San Francisco

July 18-20, 2003
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Over 1000 people from 32 countries attended.

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http://www.wfs.org/2003framemain.htm

"We will withdraw our lawsuit if SCAG will agree to one meeting with us and give serious consideration to producing an RFP for a DualMode solution." (paraphrased)
IAN CORZINE, Attorney for the AVT Corporation, to SCAG Chief Legal Council, June 4, 2003.

On July 24, 2003, Caltrans, representing the government agencies that supported the US 101 Study, rejected our settlement offer in writing and requested that the AVT dismiss the lawsuit because "the entire project was shelved and the Corridor Study Team was disbanded."

As a result, the AVT has withdrawn its lawsuit and now after over 2 years of study at a cost of over $2 million dollars to the taxpayers of California, the government has no acceptable plan to relieve congestion on the US 101, refuses to consider DualMode technology as a possible solution and refuses to ask our aerospace industry for help.

Frank Randak participated in the TRAFFIC CONGESTION: ISSUES and OPTIONS Conference June 26-27, 2003 in Washington D.C. The Conference is being sponsored by UCLA and the Federal Highway Administration. The sessions focus
on the causes and nature of traffic congestion and reviews current strategies for mitigating the problem.

Message to the Los Angeles MTA Us 101 Steering Committee, June 17, 2003.

DualMode is the only viable and attractive strategy that could actually solve the freeway congestion problem because it is based on what we want - to travel in our own car. We have the talent and technology to achieve a DualMode solution by the end of this decade, but we need some leadership from government.

This seemingly impossible goal was achieved in 8 years by our aerospace industry and government leadership. We are now faced with a less challenging but more important goal: we must develop a new way to get to work and travel around in Southern California by car - safely, quickly and efficiently without increasing air and noise pollution.

We did not get to the moon using planning and strategy alone - it required creative technology.

TRAFFIC CONGESTION: ISSUES AND OPTIONS CONFERENCE
Gallaudet University Kellogg Conference Center
Washington, DC
June 26-27, 2003

Dear Conference Participant,

The plague of traffic congestion has infected every prosperous metropolitan area on earth. The popularity and affordability of the private automobile have created worldwide highway congestion, public safety, air pollution and energy problems.

We are now evaluating options to mitigate the problems caused by increasing demands for lane capacity. Unfortunately, our current options only provide limited relief and they have very bad side effects.

We are at a critical point in the evolution of our civilization and it’s time to admit that a new approach is required in order to make a significant reduction in problems caused by traffic congestion. To quote Albert Einstein, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.

Please review my enclosed feedback to the UCLA Extension Public Policy Program and feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Frank Randak
frank@randak.com

Feed Back to UCLA

July 7, 2003
Yumi Hori
UCLA Extension Public Policy Program
10995 Le Conte Avenue #613
Los Angeles, CA 90024

This letter contains the feedback requested for the:

TRAFFIC CONGESTION: ISSUES AND OPTIONS CONFERENCE
Gallaudet University Kellogg Conference Center
Washington, DC
June 26-27, 2003

Thank you for the invitation to attend the conference and providing me the opportunity to express my views about traffic congestion issues and options.

The conference was well planned and organized. The speakers were well prepared and very interesting. I particularly enjoyed the presentations by Marty Wachs, Alan Pisarsky, Anne Canby and Jonathan Levine.

However, I was very disappointed in the options that were presented for dealing with traffic congestion. New technology was omitted from the program nor even mentioned by any of the speakers as a possible strategy for dealing with the traffic congestion dilemma.

Instead, I heard for the first time an unbelievable catch phrase spoken by three different speakers at 3 different sessions, including the closing session of the conference, i.e. “there is no silver bullet”. Where and when did this attitude originate? It sounds like an idea the public transit and highway construction industry are trying to promote. I’m sure John F. Kennedy would never have considered using this remark or supporting such a negative attitude.

Instead, John F. Kennedy said in 1961 “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth”. We are now faced with a much less challenging goal but one which may be even more important to our nation, to the world and to future generations – we must find a new way to travel 50 miles by car, safely, quickly and efficiently without polluting our environment and becoming more dependent on foreign oil.

Fortunately, over the last 40 years we have created vastly improved technology that will enable our aerospace industry to develop a solution in less than 6 years. I have talked to reputable engineering firms who agree with this estimate.

The keynote speaker, Mary Peters from the Federal Highway Administration, expressed the belief that increasing traffic congestion was causing a storm to brew and that would precipitate major change in transportation. I agree with this prediction but not with the strategy of mitigation using improved rail and bus service, improved traffic management, highway widening and road pricing.

I made the following request to Mary Peters after her speech, “I request that the US Department of Transportation issue an RFP to the aerospace industry to develop a concept for a national transportation system”.

I believe that THERE IS A SILVER BULLET and our aerospace industry can produce more than one concept, each of which will provide far superior benefits compared to the current approaches of mitigation.

If we can develop one system that will transport cars automatically and efficiently, provide private non-stop public transit and transport freight, then we will have a silver bullet. We have an insatiable demand for driving capacity. Drivers are sitting in traffic in every one of our large metropolitan areas, pleading for a solution and willing to pay almost anything for relief. This is a situation where private industry could form a partnership with the government and provide an attractive solution at NO COST TO THE TAXPAYERS.

Let’s open our minds and use our superior technology to create a road map to a new type of transportation. We did not get to the moon with planning and strategy alone – it required creative thinking and new technology.
Sincerely,
Frank Randak
President
AVT-Solatrek.COM, Inc.
Cc: Participant Roster