ICTS: A TALE OF THREE CITIES

Canada's Urban Transportation Development Corp. (UTDC) has been developing an Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS) which is now being implemented in 3 North American cities. The goal of ICTS has been a rail transit concept intermediate in capacity between conventional light rail and full rapid transit. ICTS technology involves steel wheel on steel rail guidance and support, linear motor propulsion and lightweight vehicles that make possible a small, low cost supporting structure. UTDC is building a 2.9-mile downtown people mover in Detroit, a 4.3-mile feeder from Scarborough, Ontario, to Toronto's rapid transit, and a 13.3-mile suburb-to-downtown transit line at Vancouver, B.C. Details of each of 3 systems under construction are given. ICTS advantages include low noise due to radial trucks, close headways due to LIM performance and the SELTRAC control system, and the small, lightweight vehicle. The system was debugged during a long prototype testing program at Kingston, Ontario.

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  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

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• Publication Date: 1984-10

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: 5 p.
• Serial:
  • Railway Age
  • Volume: 185
  • Issue Number: 10
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-8826
  • Serial URL: http://www.railwayage.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic train control; Feeder services; Lightweight materials; Linear motors; People movers; Rapid transit; Technology; Vehicle design
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Old TRIS Terms: Intermediate rapid transit; Linear electric motor; Radial trucks
• Subject Areas: Design; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00391496
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 30 1985 12:00AM