Platoon-operated stations for quasi-synchronous personal rapid transit networks

Dais, J. L.; York, Harold L.

doi:10.1016/0041-1647(74)90018-5

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“…Smaller vehicles operating at closer headways reduce the required platform length as well as the passenger wait time, thus reducing the space required for waiting passengers. Maximum station throughput is attained by using a platooning operating procedure, such as described by Dais and York (1973). As an example of the station platform length reduction possible, Anderson (1980) showed that the maximum station flow during the busiest hours at the busiest station of the Philadelphia-Lindenwold rapid rail system could be handled by three-passenger vehicles in a platooning operation using nine station berths.…”

Section: Stationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimization of transit‐system characteristics

Anderson¹

1984

J of Advced Transportation

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The transit industry is facing declining ridership and increasing costs with no apparent end in sight. This paper takes the view that totally new solutions are needed. The approach is to examine the equation for total cost of a transit system per passenger-mile to determine how to configure a new system to minimize this quantity. Term-by-term analysis leads to derivation of a consistent set of optimum characteristics. Guideway costs are minimized by distributing the load in very small capsules. The fleet cost is minimized by increasing the average speed without increasing the cruising speed by use of off-line stations, which in turn minimize energy use by permitting nonstop trips. Maintenance costs are minimized by designing a very light-weight, automated vehicle with very few moving parts. While this general configuration has been known for several decades, it has not been generally recognized that it can be derived by minimization of system costs, and that cost minimization is obtained simultaneously with service maximization. While a great deal of controversy surrounded this concept a decade ago, advances in technology make it fully practical now. J. EDWARD ANDERSON is Executive Vice President of Automated Transportation Systems,Inc.. and is on leave from the University of Minnesota where he serves as Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

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Section: Stationsmentioning

confidence: 99%