COMMUNITY ROUTES FOR AUTOMATIC CABIN-RAILWAYS USING THE H-BAHN (ELEVATED RAILWAY) AS AN EXAMPLE

GEMEINSCHAFTSSTRECKEN FUER AUTOMATISCHE KABINENBAHNEN AM BEISPIEL DER H-BAHN

The German federal minister for research and technology has been promoting the development of automatically driven cabin-railways. In recent years a series of towns have had feasibility studies for these systems carried out. The most comprehensive studies were produced in 1977 and 1978 for the towns and cities of Berlin, Erlangen, Hamburg and Marl. They give an insight into what costs and benefits automatic cabin-railways can give to single town areas or whole towns. For the results of the feasibility study for example it is important to know how much the special characteristics of automatic cabin-railways have been exploited insofar as benefits and costs are concerned. A lack of practical experience must be replaced by theoretical forward thinking, which requires a systematic procedure. The results which follow illustrate in particular the problems of "community routes" and are applicable to other track-systems.

• Corporate Authors:

  Tetzlaff Verlag GmbH

  Havelstrosse 9, Postfach 4006
  D-6100 Darmstadt 1,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • ILGMANN, G
  • Noetzold, K
• Publication Date: 1979-5-6

Language

• German

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 168-171
• Serial:
  • INTERNATIONALES VERKEHRSWESEN
  • Volume: 31
  • Issue Number: 3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated guideway transit; Automatic control; Automation; Benefit cost analysis; Economic efficiency; Future; Monorail transportation; Personal rapid transit; Public transit; Technological forecasting; Technology; Transportation modes; Transportation operations; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency; Suspended vehicles
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 5911: Efficiency; 1152: Future transport mode; 1144: Operations (transp network); 1171: PRT; 744: Public transport; 1279: Suspended vehicle
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00322563
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 1980 12:00AM