Note: ‘State of Brunei’ refers to a city in SimCity… 
Brunei has a highly developed transport and network system. Among the features that distance Brunei’s system from the rest of the world are the four integrated systems, Brunei Airport System and its sub-system, Brunei SpacePort, Integrated Land Transit System (ILTS), Brunei SeaPort, and Vertical Transportation Protocol (VTP); Fluid Delivery System (FDS); and the Load Balancing Protocol (LBP).
Brunei Airport and Spaceport Systems
Brunei Airport System consists of five airports that are under a single control. The individual airports are known as fields. Two such fields, Fields 1 and 2 are located in Western Island, and Fields 3, 4 and 5 in Eastern Island, with the latter two forming part of Brunei Spaceport. Fields 1 and 2 caters for commercial flight; 3 for private aircraft, and 4 and 5 for extra-planetary flight. All the fields are located underground to conserve land space and increase the efficiency of noise reduction system. There are two runways for each field, with individual entrance and exit. The cavities of the fields are among the largest in the world, with over 500 million cubic meter of volume each.
The cavities are each equipped with two Aircraft Launch and Capture Systems (ALCSs), which are basically very large three-dimensional wind tunnels. Upon entering the runway, ALCS delivers air that matches the relative indicated airspeed of the approaching plane, and decelerates the plane over a very short distance without causing discomfort to passengers through the use of artificial airflow. ALCS also propels an aircraft into flight. The system enables planes such as AC-101 to take off and land over less than 750 meter while create just 44dBA of noise.
A high-speed start-stop train system links all the five fields to form an integrated airport. The train system is running alongside, though separate from, the Integrated Land Transit System, and the two uses the same mechanism. The link between the two systems is in the form of a cargo processing center, which also services the Seaport.
Aircraft and spacecraft movements are handled from the Airspace Control Center, north of City Core and 16km from the airport. The 553-m control tower is the tallest in the world, and handles more than 99% of Earth’s annual spacecraft movements. In 2006, the Airport system handles 2.41 million movements, which handily beats the runner-up, Atlanta’s 965,000.
Integrated Land Transit System (ILTS)
The ILTS comprises a comprehensive network of high-speed start-stop rails, passenger and cargo entrance-exit points, and mechanisms that handle the traffic, passenger and cargo. All the three components are seamlessly integrated through compatible hardware, communication and coordination systems.
The 3,130-km underground rail network is owned by various private companies, observing compatible technical standards and protocols. The rails form a grid across the entire Brunei city, consistent with land plot pattern. This enables every plot to have at least one access to the rail system; in one-access case the plot is being referred to as a ‘one-quarter unit cell’. Most plots have two accesses, being known as ‘one-half unit cell’. Each access serves not only passengers but also cargo. Each access is served by at least two pairs of double-track rails; two pairs make a ’strand’.
The rails are run using hybrid compressed-air/maglev propulsion in low-pressure tunnels. For much of the time the strands are fully operational; however upgrades can be performed through partial shut-down of rail-pairs. Currently the rails are thoroughly upgraded every thirty years. The upgrade costs an average of $60 billion per annum, in 2006. In comparison, most mass transit systems in the world had never been built with such possibility of upgrading in mind.
Industrial estates in Western and Eastern Islands are complemented with an additional network of surface rails, which serves every industrial plot. The rails are compatible and seamlessly integrated with the underground system; as such, cargo can be delivered from manufacturing facilities directly to commercial and residential establishments, without the need of human intervention and packaging need is minimal. Trains can also travel from underground to surface network.
The trains consist of two sections. Passenger section is located on the forward section of the trains while cargo section is on the rear. The movement of cargo is handled in each station by the Cargo Handling Machines, not dissimilar to tunnel boring machines. The machine could transport cargoes from elevators, sort the cargoes following the command of Vertical Transportation Protocol and Load Balancing Protocol, and load the cargoes onto the trains. There are also dedicated machines in the cargo processing center for inter-modal freight transfer.
Brunei SeaPort
The Brunei SeaPort is traditionally being viewed as the lifeline of the Bruneian economy, as the existence of the port greatly accelerated Brunei’s development during its formative years. The first Port of Brunei was located by the shores of Brunei River, currently the West Bank and East Bank commercial districts. As the commercial land demand surges and the city expands itself, the port was moved to West Bank Downstream and an area of reclaimed land, Arm of Brunei located in East Bank downstream. The current, third Brunei SeaPort is located in the entirely-reclaimed Western Island, adjacent to the cargo processing center and the International Transport Hub, where a large number of transportation and logistics companies are located. The SeaPort handled 3.84 billion tons of cargo in ‘2006′. In comparison, the Port of Singapore takes 15 times more land, but handled only 1.15 billion gross tons of cargo during the same period.
Vertical Transportation Protocol (VTP) and Load Balancing Protocol (LBP)
The VTP was formed as vertical transportation within buildings becomes increasingly important and traffic capacity rapidly approaches possibility frontier. The protocol comprises guidelines covering such areas as design ratios, acceleration standard and synchronization of elevators’ timing with that of other transportation systems, especially ILTS’s. Of these, the last is arguably the most important. Elevators in the State are equipped with control systems capable of decentralized communication and arrangement with other transportation systems. By taking into account such parameters as elevator-subway station linkway capacity and distance, pedestrian velocity and freight traffic requirements, the elevators can be arranged to provide near-seamless commutation of human and freight traffic from one system to another, such as elevator-train, seaport-elevator or even multi-modal arrangements such as elevator-train-spaceport. LBP collates the location, volume and velocity of loads and coordinates the delivery of such loads. Waiting time is nearly eliminated and acceleration rate is minimized to provide maximum comfort and efficiency while minimize stress and waste.
Fluid Delivery System (FDS)
Mainly utilizing the magnetic technology derived from the ILTS, the FDS is capable of delivering a wide range of fluids using just a uniform set of connections. Such fluids range from liquid oxygen to urine; however, usually the system delivers industrial gases and chemicals, as other systems cater for fresh water and sewer. Fluids are delivered in time slots; users could replenish their supplies at the given time slot of the day by connecting to the pipeline. A rigorous system of checks and redundancy is in place to prevent errors which could be disastrous. Drawing parallelism with ILTS, the FDS features multiple strands, with the greatest bandwidth catering for industrial users, follow by commercial and residential users. The system has a conventional, tank-based delivery backup to minimize chances of disruption.
