DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ADVANCED TRANSIT SYSTEMS USING INTERACTIVE COMPUTER ANIMATION
The Princeton Intelligent Transit Visualization System (PITVS) is described. The PITVS is software designed to provide transit planners, engineers, and the general public with an interactive three-dimensional transportation system design and analysis tool. The software provides the functionality to (a) build transit networks, positioning guideway, intersections, and stations while specifying guideway cross-section characteristics and station demand characteristics using a graphical user interface; (b) view these networks in a three-dimensional representation of the planning area with fully interactive user control over viewing positions; and (c) view randomly generated simulated operations on a transit network design based on demand characteristics and a system operations strategy. Both the methods of and the motivations behind the PITVS are explained, and the positive enhancement that interactive three-dimensional graphics will give to the transit systems design process is affirmed.
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- This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1402, Public Transit: Current Research in Planning, Marketing, Operations, and Technology. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
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Authors:
- Erera, Alan L
- Kornhauser, Alain L
- Publication Date: 1993
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: p. 110-116
- Monograph Title: Public transit: current research in planning, marketing, operations, and technology
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 1402
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Analysis; Automated guideway transit; Computer animation; Computer graphics; Design; Mathematical models; Software; Visualization
- Uncontrolled Terms: Interactive graphics
- Old TRIS Terms: Advanced transit systems; Animation
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00641372
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 5 1994 12:00AM