VISUAL IMPACT OF PERSONAL RAPID TRANSIT

PRT systems offer on-demand, non-stop service from origin to destination over extensive networks of guideways. To date, these guideways have been portrayed as elevated above grade, minimizing network costs and interference with other circulation systems, but maximizing the visual impact on neighborhoods they pass through. This study does not attempt to present a design solution to these problems, but rather it lays a foundation for developing PRT visual impact design criteria on which future design decisions can be predicted. The key lies in finding effective communications media through which the visual impact of PRT can be conveyed to the public at large. The study explores the effectiveness of three graphic communication techniques.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

  Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, 200 Union Street, SE
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55455

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Lavine, L
  • Peterson, R
  • Bulbulian, F
• Publication Date: 1974-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 35 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aesthetics; Communication; Communities; Constraints; Design; Elevated guideways; Environmental impacts; Graphics; Guideways; Information systems; Networks; Personal rapid transit; Pollution control; Public relations; Rapid transit; Transportation; Transportation planning; Urban areas; Urban transportation; Visibility
• Uncontrolled Terms: Design criteria; Transportation networks
• Old TRIS Terms: Communicating; Graphic methods; Rapid transit railways; Urban information systems
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00092327
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt., UMTA-MN-11-0037-74-2
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 5 1982 12:00AM