Sustainable Approaches Linking Personal Rapid Transit and Parking: Interfaces and Linkages

Architecture, Planning, Parking Facilities and Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) can provide new connections to create more sustainable major activity center interfaces and linkages. The use of smaller destination-based transit vehicles creates the ability to easily access the parking facility creating new synergies for sustainable architectural and planning solutions. Using a PRT system and the parking facility, designers can create better connections for people in activity centers in a cost effective manner. Due to the PRT’s ability to arrive more quickly to its destination – even more time-efficiently than a car and historical forms of transit - if in a dedicated route– PRT can simultaneously enhance the efficiency of people movement by connecting automobile and transit trips with increasing transit use. Several key issues are involved in implementing effective advanced transit solutions, and the most effective solutions lie in their interfaces and overlaps, not in their isolation. The issues are: (1) accommodating all modes of transportation, (2) sustainable/ energy source/environmental issues, (3) human connections: for example handicap accessibility, (4) sustainable land use decisions, and (5) architectural design. This paper will begin to examine the linkages from two approaches: (A) new activity center design ideas (B) existing centers design ideas. This area of study; the linkages of Architecture, Planning, Parking and PRT is at its beginning stages, so little empirical data currently exists. This paper attempts to propose a structure or frame to begin the analysis and the discussion for the possibilities.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Young, Stanley E
  • McDonald, Shannon Sanders
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
• Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: DVD
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 14p
• Monograph Title: TRB 88th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Architecture; Automobiles; Cost effectiveness; Economics; Energy consumption; Environmental impacts; Land use; Origin and destination; Parking; Personal rapid transit; Public transit; Routes and routing; Sustainable development; Transportation modes; Travel time
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01127333
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 09-2879
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 29 2009 11:34AM