COMMAND AND CONTROL STUDIES FOR PERSONAL RAPID TRANSIT, PROGRAM STATUS, 1974

The document reviews the APL effort on command and control systems for circulation and distribution applications. A brief history of the program is given, together with the results of the work and its effects on system performance. The discussion is divided into an investigation of vehicle management (the controlling of a fleet of vehicles in terms of scheduling, dispatching, empty vehicle allocation, and station operation) and an investigation of vehicle regulation (the controlling of an individual vehicle either alone or within a string of vehicles). A bibliography of the reports, papers, and significant memoranda relating to this work is included, as well as summary descriptions of the major digital computer simulations that have been developed in support of these investigations.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also PB-231681.
• Corporate Authors:

  Johns Hopkins University, Laurel

  Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road
  Laurel, MD  United States  20723-6099

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • HINMAN, E J
• Publication Date: 1975-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 165 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated guideway transit; Automated vehicle control; Automatic control; Command and control systems; Command guidance; Digital computers; Dispatching; Fleet management; Highway traffic control; Intelligent transportation systems; Mechanical acceleration; Optimization; Personal rapid transit; Rapid transit; Routes; Scheduling; Simulation; Spacing; Traffic engineering; Traffic safety; Urban transportation; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fleets
• Old TRIS Terms: Advanced systems; Automated guideway systems; Command systems; Rapid transit railways
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00133089
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Tech. Rpt., UMTA-MD-06-0018-74-3
• Contract Numbers: DOT-UT-30010
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 23 1982 12:00AM