Market for AGT and its Implication for Needed R&D
This paper reviews the present market for automated-type transit systems, outlines the attributes required to satisfy and expand this market, and identifies deficiencies in existing Automated...
Feasibility Assessment, Planning and Programming of Downtown People Mover Installations
Based on the author's personal experience, this paper sets forth suggested guidelines for progressing from initial feasibility studies through implementation of automated...
How Will People Movers Affect Downtown Areas?
The year 1980 was a pivotal one for the downtown automated people mover development process in both Detroit and Miami. In that year both cities completed their preliminary engineering/environmental...
Changing Attitudes Towards Elevated Structures
This paper examines the reaction of professionals and politicians to specific examples of proposals for new public transport systems that entail elevated structures in central areas. When...
How to Make Automated Transportation Profitable!
The paper discusses an approach to analyzing why past systems attracted investors. It suggests, first; remember why the auto and truck have captured the bulk of the market. Second; accept...
Applications and Benefits of Accelerating Walkway Systems
A number of studies have shown that many persons resist walking, and might be willing to pay as much as 25 to 50 cents per minute to avoid walking. A new form of urban transport - Accelerating...
The Neglected Challenge in Metropolitan Area Transportation
The central fact about metropolitan area transportation is the gross mismatch between the medium and low density patterns of settlement that are dominating the evolution of metropolitan...
APM System Performance and Guideway Design Parameters
Automated People Movers (APM) are a relatively new form of transportation system becoming popular over the last twenty to twenty-five years. They are characterized by fully automatic and...
APM Configuration Concepts and Network Design
The simpler networks, along with several of the more complex variations, include the following: Single-Lane Shuttle, Single-Lane Shuttle with Bypass, Double-Lane Shuttle, Single-Lane Loop,...
Transport by Cable: Possibilities and Limits
Cable systems offer a high degree of passenger safety; they do not cause pollution and can, in a very flexible way, be adapted to the local conditions. They can be operated as reversible,...
Parametric Analysis of APM Operational Components: Stopping Policy, Stations and Headway
This study examines generically relationships among the three parameters using a single line transit system. Optimization models are developed to determine the optimum number of stops...
Design Criteria Impacts on Guideway Development
A highly definitive design criteria or performance specification is frequently developed for new transit systems. The criteria are intended to protect the owner's interest...
Standardization of AGT Systems in Japan
Automated guideway transit systems (AGT) have been developped by different private firms in Japan, and therefore, the system components and dimensions are somewhat diversified. Such diversity...
The Possibility of People Mover Cost Reduction in Japan
One of the major problems preventing the introduction of people movers into urban areas is their expensive unit cost in comparison with existing transport technologies. In this paper,...
Guideway and Conductor Rail Heating for a Winter Environment
The power and signal conducting rails are maintained using self-limiting heat trace cable in combination with an inherently protected rail. The cable's high inrush power along...
A Unique Communication System for Aerial Ropeways
The basic principles of operation of a Double Reversible Aerial Tramway are introduced. A brief note is given explaining a safety circuit or survey current used on the haul rope, since...
Urban Experience with AGT in North America
This paper gives a brief historical review of events behind the four Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) system deployments which are approaching public operations during 1985 and 1986. Particular...
Planning-Miami Downtown People Mover
This paper presents the Miami Downtown People Mover Story, now officially called METROMOVER. METROMOVER is a fixed, elevated, fully automated people mover, which was developed as a feeder-distributor...
The Planning of an Automated Rapid Transit System in Vancouver
BC Transit is building a 13 mile (22 km) rapid transit line in Vancouver that incorporates Heavy Rapid Transit, Light Rapid Transit and Automated People Mover concepts. The bus sized lightweight...
Jacksonville Automated Skyway Express System
The history of the Jacksonville Automated Skyway Express is reviewed from the beginning of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) Automated Guideway Transit Demonstration...
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