PERFORMANCE DEPENDABILITY AND WAITING TIMES OF A PERSONAL RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM

A joint project by the West Virginia University and the Urban Mass Transportation Administration during the early 1970's led to the construction of an innovative transportation system. Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), or Downtown People Mover. PRT connects the three campuses of the university with an automated, electrically-powered system composed of about 100 rubber-tired vehicles operating on an exclusive guideway. Some operations are computer-controlled. An attempt is made to evaluate the dependability and passenger waiting times of the system.

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• Authors:
  • Polus, A
  • Eck, R W
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 285-301
• Serial:
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0197-6729
  • EISSN: 2042-3195
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2042-3195
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Applications; Automation; Computers; Guideways; Mineral dislocations; People movers; Personal rapid transit; Reliability; Transportation; Waiting time
• Geographic Terms: Morgantown (West Virginia)
• Old TRIS Terms: Downtown people mover
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00390100
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 30 1984 12:00AM