PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF AN AIR-LEVITATED AIR-PROPELLED, PASSIVE VEHICLE PERSONAL RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM

An eight-passenger Uniflo vehicle was tested to 30 ft/sec on enclosed guideway through curved straight and switch sections. The following parameters were measured: ride quality, as 3 axis acceleration; noise emission as perceived by passengers and in area near guideway, vehicle acceleration and service braking, switch response time, levitation air flow and power requirements, propulsion air flow and power requirements, and performance and reliability between -20F and +90F.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared by Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Washington, D.C., and Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Mass.
• Corporate Authors:

  Uniflo Systems Company

  Minneapolis, MN  United States 

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142
• Authors:
  • Smoot, C H
• Publication Date: 1975-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 117 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air; Air cushion vehicles; Automated guideway transit; Cost estimating; Estimates; Flow; Intelligent transportation systems; Personal rapid transit; Pneumatic equipment; Railroad transportation; Rapid transit; Ride quality; Tracked air cushion vehicles; Tubing
• Uncontrolled Terms: Air flow; Experimental design
• Old TRIS Terms: Advanced systems; Automated guideway systems; Pneumatic lines; Rapid transit railways; Tube systems
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00092992
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt., DOT-TSC-UMTA-75-3
• Contract Numbers: DOT-TSC-367
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 18 1981 12:00AM