THE PROSPECTS FOR ADVANCED URBAN TRANSPORT

Automated transport covers a number of different types of system or service: autotaxi (or personal rapid transit) with a vehicle capacity in the range of 1 to 6 passengers and autotram (or group rapid transit, light guideway transit, intermediate capacity transit and, in the United Kingdom, minitram) with vehicles tending to hold from 10 to 60 passengers. This paper reviews the progress made in the last 2 years in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, France and Japan. An attempt is made to forecast the role automated transport might play in the UK to the end of the century.

• Corporate Authors:

  Warwick University

  Urban Transport Research Group
  Coventry,   England 
• Publication Date: 0

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 22 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated guideway transit; Automatic control; Automation; Development; Linear motors; Magnetic levitation; Monorail transportation; People movers; Personal rapid transit; Public transit; Rapid transit; State of the art reports; Technology; Technology assessment; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: France; Germany; Japan; United Kingdom; United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Linear electric motor
• ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 9013: Development; 8036: France; 8125: Germany; 8053: Japan; 1180: Monorail; 1171: PRT; 744: Public transport; 1181: Rapid transit system; 8588: State of the art report; 3855: Technology; 8119: United Kingdom; 313: Urban area; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00378645
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: Working Paper 28 Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 30 1983 12:00AM