CABTRACK STUDIES. OPERATION OF CABTRACK JUNCTIONS

Cabtrack is a proposal for a novel form of urban transport using small self-routing cabs operating under automatic control on a network of segregated tracks. The report, which is one of a series on Cabtrack studies, concentrates on methods of control and operation of junctions in the network. A variety of combinations of methods of queueing and of strategy at a merge are studied with the aid either of queueing theory or computer simulation. Comparisons are made and a preferred solution, the static queue, described. Brief mention is made of a computer simulation of a complete network using static queues at junctions.

• Corporate Authors:

  Royal Aircraft Establishment

  Structures Department
  Farnborough, Hampshire,   England 
• Authors:
  • Paddison, D I
  • Catherall, D
• Publication Date: 1972-5

Media Info

• Pagination: 71 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Guideways; Intelligent transportation systems; Intersections; Merging control; Networks; Personal rapid transit; Queuing theory; Simulation; Urban transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Advanced systems; Cabtrack; Cabtrack system; Guideway systems; Merging control system; Queueing theory
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00057922
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: RAE-TR-72043 Tech. Rpt.
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 12 1974 12:00AM