COST AND PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIPS FOR RUBBER TIRED AUTOMATED SYSTEM DESIGN

The paper discusses the cost sensitivity of the vehicle/elevated guideway system to the important vehicle operational and performance characteristics. For the vehicle system, relationships for obtaining a first cut cost estimate of an electrically driven automated rubber tired vehicle as a function of the vehicle's physical & operating characteristics are presented. Also presented are important vehicle performance characteristics that affect the fleet size and hence the vehicle system capital cost.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the International Conference on Personal Rapid Transit, Denver, Colorado, September 16-19, 1975.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Colorado, Boulder

  Center for Urban Transportation Studies
  Boulder, CO  United States  80302
• Authors:
  • Putukian, J
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 18 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Automated guideway transit; Costs; Ground vehicles; Intelligent transportation systems; Tires; Vehicle performance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Advanced systems; Automated guideway systems
• Subject Areas: Construction; Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00165029
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Vol 2, Pap 34 Conf Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 23 1981 12:00AM