PRT IV, Volume I, Group 1, Session 01 - A DESCRIPTION AND COMPARISON OF ADVANCED TRANSIT SYSTEMS

by atra
on Sun, 2008/06/29 - 9:43pm

SESSION I
A DESCRIPTION AND COMPARISON OF ADVANCED TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Chairman: L. Bell
1. "PRTi and Goods Movement," A. E. Morelli, Bronx, New York.
2. "The Employment of New and Conventional Urban Mass Transit Technologies," H. Kramer, Der Bundesminister Fur Verher, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany.
3. "Jetrail/Astroglide: The Advanced Monorail Automatic Guideway Transit System That Pays for Itself," G. P. Scelzo, PRT Systems Corporation, Chicago Heights, Illinois.
4. "Dynamic Entrainment of AGT Vehicles," S. E. Shladover, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
5. "The Otis Advanced Group Rapid Transit System," D. Gary et aI., Otis Elevator Company, Denver, Colorado.

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PRT_IV_Session-I_01_PRT_and_Goods_Movement_compressed.pdf1.25 MB
PRT_IV_Session-I_02_New_and_Conventional_Technologies_compressed.pdf547.27 KB
PRT_IV_Session-I_03_JetRail_Pays_For_Itself_compressed.pdf1.58 MB
PRT_IV_Session-I_04_Dynamic_Entrainment_of_AGT_Vehicles_compressed.pdf1.36 MB
PRT_IV_Session-I_05_Otis_Advanced_Group_Rapid_Transit_compressed.pdf699.26 KB

Session 1, Presentation 02

Submitted by atra on Mon, 2008/06/30 - 9:51pm.

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The second presentation is an interesting description of something we would call BRT today. It includes dualmode buses similar to some of Palle Jensen's vehicles. The use of dedicated bus lanes gives many of the benefits of the guideways in dualmode.