Each nation plans its own network. The MMC standard is what joins those networks: one specification for how a corridor is manufactured, founded, built, equipped, operated and connected across borders. A corridor built to the standard in one nation runs into a corridor built to the standard in the next without a change of system.
The standard applies across the world and across the whole life of a corridor — the same modules, the same foundations, the same structures, the same services, the same construction method and the same operating rules in every nation.
Every corridor is assembled from the same factory-made precast modules, produced in Megafactories to one set of dimensions and tolerances. A module made in one nation fits a corridor in any other.
Manufacturing →Every pylon stands on the same foundation system: the Anchor Tension System, a drilled caisson with a cutter-head anchor and a tension tubular tensioned at the caisson head.
The technology →A fixed catalogue of structures covers every deployment: the MMC-VA, MMC-VB and MMC-VC viaducts and the MMC-T transmission towers. Each nation chooses from the catalogue; it does not design new structures.
The model catalogue →Ten services are carried on one structure: maglev passenger, electric freight rail, service rail, road, HVDC transmission, water, gas and liquid fuels, hydrogen, fibre and hyperloop. Each service has a standard position on the structure.
The services →Each span is built from the completed elevated line behind it, with no ground access road. Where a rail line already exists, the corridor follows it, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct.
How it is built →Trains, freight and services run through from one nation’s corridor into the next without a change of system. Through-running and border processing follow one procedure, set with the nations that join.
The international body →Rail networks built to different gauges, voltages, signalling and border rules stop at the border, or change trains there. A single standard lets freight and passengers move from one nation to the next on the same line, lets every nation buy from the same factories, and lets every nation’s workforce build to the same method.
The regional and continental network maps show what the standard joins: North America, Central America, South America, and Australia and its regional links. Memo 17 sets out what China’s high-speed network shows: a network built for passengers, with most freight left on the road.
The manufacturing, foundation, structure, service and construction parts of the standard are described on the pages linked above and in the memo series. The operating and border parts will be set with the nations that join, through the international body. The seven MMC patents are offered to every nation building to the global standard — see the patent family. To take part: make contact.