Unique Features of Automated People Mover Systems
This paper identifies the characteristics and unique features of the automated transit system presently being installed in the central business district of Detroit, Michigan. This system...
Detroit's DPM Maintenance and Control Facility
The Maintenance and Control Facility (MCF), a single building complex for the Detroit Downtown People Mover (DPM) system, incorporates the people mover system's transit vehicle...
The Group Approach to Implementing Micro Systems
This paper highlights a nearly three year effort to implement microcomputer information systems on 16 small and medium sized transit properties in Wisconsin using a 'group...
Implementing a Maintenance Program in Wisconsin
A vehicle maintenance and parts inventory control microcomputer package was developed and implemented for thirteen small transit properties as a part of the Statewide Microcomputer Implementation...
Automated Maintenance at Mendocino Transit
The Mendocino Transit Authority has been using the Fleet Controller, a vehicle maintenance cost control micro-computer program, for nearly a year. This paper describes the set-up and daily...
Applying the Bus Garage Space Requirements Model
The Bus Garage Space Requirements Model (BBARN) is a computer-based model developed by the author to generate a detailed space program for an office/bus maintenance facility. BBARN provides...
Automated People Movers for Urban Revitalization and Development
The paper summarizes the major technologic features of Automated People Movers, (APM) including Personal Rapid Transit versus Group Rapid Transit concepts, active versus passive vehicles,...
The Practitioner's Approach to Infrastructure Master Planning: The State of the Art
Infrastructure master planning is still a disjointed practice, but recent empirical work provides a base from which coordinated efforts, tying together the various sectors, are possible....
Vibration Problems in Geotechnical Engineering
This volume constitutes the Proceedings of a two-session Symposium whose main objective is to address geotechnical issues related to vibration problems other than those associated with...
Fracture Problems in the Transportation Industry
Six cases of damage tolerance assessment are presented, involving structures or vehicles in the U.S. transportation industry. Damage tolerance means arranging design, maintenance, and...
Rating Pavements by Computer
Pavement rating is a necessary and labor-intensive job and one with a high turnover rate of personnel. Also, rating scores are often inconsistent from day to day, or between different...
Effective Communications in Highway Safety Programs
The problem of creating a safe environment for the users of our highway system has been with us almost since the invention of the motor vehicle. Generally accepted throughout the field...
Interdisciplinary Communication and Traffic Safety: An Information Systems View
The purpose of this Highway Safety Forum is to find ways to improve communications among professionals in eight disciplines which are involved in the effort to reduce the number and severity...
Vehicle Design Exchange With Other Disciplines
Vehicle Design as one of the eight designated areas of interest or 'disciplines' includes a wide range of interests within itself. It can range from overall vehicle...
Traffic Reroute
During reconstruction of Pittsburgh's Interstate 376, traffic and passenger diversion efforts, more extensive than ever before, were undertaken. Eight percent of the $62 million...
Highway Capacity Manual Revisited
The forthcoming third edition of this manual of highway and traffic engineering, due in 1985, will significantly change how highway capacity is analyzed. Of the edition's...
Transportation Brokerage in a Bi-State Area
Transportation brokerage is a coordinated management approach to meeting transportation consumer needs with existing transportation providers. In doing so, brokerage fosters increased...
Policy Analysis Implications of Four Cogent Transportation Topics
Using a goal-group policy-analysis scheme and from his experience on Capitol Hill, the author documents his observations on the cogent transportation topics facing the United States in...
Preparation of Equipment for Cold Regions
An overview of equipment required to support arctic construction is presented. Special features which have been incorporated into standard equipment designs are explained. Also presented...
Australian Coal Terminal Operates Happily Beside Residential Area
A coal terminal was built in Port Kembla, Australia at a $7.56 cost per metric ton. The port was built for $121 million, $18 million below estimate. It included such innovations as the...
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