VEHICLE MANAGEMENT POLICIES FOR AUTOMATED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

A new approach to the problem of managing vehicles within a personalized automated transportation system is outlined. Two alternative vehicle management strategies are suggested; each is potentially applicable to either scheduled or demand responsive systems possessing large numbers of vehicles, topologically complicated guideway networks and capacitated stations. The proposed strategies take station capacity constraints into account by guaranteeing that under normal operating conditions (i.e., no emergencies) no vehicle is ever prevented from entering its destination station because of the unavailability of a berth.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the INFAC/IFIP/IFORS International Symposium: Control in Transportation Systems, Columbus, Ohio, August 9-13, 1976. Also available from ESL.
• Corporate Authors:

  International Federation of Automatic Control

  Postfach 1139, Graf-Recke-Strasse 84
  4 Dusseldorf 1,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • KISELEWICH, S J
  • Tong, Y M
  • Morse, A S
• Conference:
  • Presented at the INFAC/IFIP/IFORS International Symposium: Control in Transportation Systems, Columbus, Ohio, August 9-13, 1976. Also available from ESL.
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 223-227

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated guideway transit; Automatic control; Network analysis (Planning); Personal rapid transit; Traffic control
• Old TRIS Terms: Automated guideway systems; Automatic control systems
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00159479
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Conf Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1981 12:00AM