PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH COMPUTER MANAGEMENT OF A FULLY AUTOMATED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit System is a fully automated, collection and distribution, origin to destination, nonstop transportation system. The system consists of a fleet of 73 electrically powered, rubber tired, passenger carrying vehicles, operating on a dedicated guideway network at 15 second headways. The system provides a safe, comfortable nonpolluting, reliable means of public transportation between the Central Business District of Morgantown, West Virginia, and the three separated campuses of West Virginia University. This study addresses the unique application of computers in operating a public transit system which is considered the first of its kind anywhere in the world.

• Corporate Authors:

  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Maxwell House, Fairview Park
  Elmsford, NY  United States  10523
• Authors:
  • ELIAS, SEG
  • Hendershot, R
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 257-268
• Serial:
  • Computers and Industrial Engineering
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Pergamon Press, Incorporated

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated guideway transit; Automatic train control; Information processing
• Geographic Terms: Morgantown (West Virginia)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00341935
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 28 1981 12:00AM