DEVELOPMENT/DEPLOYMENT INVESTIGATION OF CABINTAXI/CABINLIFT SYSTEMS

This report presents the results of an investigation of the Cabintaxi/Cabinlift automated guideway transit (AGT) systems under development in the Federal Republic of Germany. These systems have not been conceived and designed for a particular transportation need at a specific site, but as a modular set of "building blocks" which can be configured into specific systems to suit a variety of applications. The systems are still evolving; most of the individual componnets have reached a high level of maturity, while the technical development of others has just begun. A Cabintaxi/Cabinlift system has not been deployed for use by the general public except of a simple, single-vehicle shuttle system at a hospital in Ziegenhain, Germany. The present technology is the result of an interactive design process which began in 1969 and has been greatly aided by the use of a large and sophisticated test facility in Hagen, Germany since 1973. /Author/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Sponsored by DOT, Federal Highway Administration and by Federal Ministry of Research and Technology, West Germany.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142

  SNV Studiengesellschaft Nahverkehr mbH

  Lokstedter Weg 24
  D-2000 Hamburg 20,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • Hobbs, V J
  • Heckelmann, W
  • Patt, N G
  • Hill, J H
• Publication Date: 1977-12

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 432 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated vehicle control; Design; Guideways; Iterative methods; Technology
• Old TRIS Terms: Automated transit system
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00174423
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-MA06-0067-77-02Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: UM-836-R8744
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 14 1978 12:00AM