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From Jerry Schneider's pages:
Planning and Deployment Issues, Methods and Information
Resources: http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/itrans3.htm
The Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Ongoing Debate Page:
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/debate.htm
Dualmode Debate Page: http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/dualdbte.htm
PRT Conference Paper Titles and Authors - Links to
Abstracts and Contact Information: http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/prtconf.htm
Abstracts of Some of the Papers Presented at the PRT
Conference 1996: http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/prtabs.htm
Resources, at Transit-Focused Development: http://www.peak.org/~jbs/booksand.htm
Ed Anderson's Collection of Papers (click Publications
on the upper left hand): http://www.taxi2000.com/
Martin Lowson's Papers: http://www.fen.bris.ac.uk/aero/atg/atgpub.html
Papers by ATRA Members: http://216.84.149.38d201.htm/d200.htm
Modern Transit Society articles and position papers:
http://www.trainweb.com/mts/articles/index.html
A Review Of PRT compiled by Sheila Hawkins : http://www.ee.vt.edu/perts/perts/prt.html
Monorails & Peoplemovers Transportation of the
Future...Today, by Danielle J. DeBlois: http://www.nau.edu/~soc-p/ecrc/peoplemovers.html
Reason Foundation, on Transport: http://www.rppi.org/infratran.html
#79 of the Global Futures Bulletin.
See the first article on smart cities: http://daastol.com/sportaxi/global.html
Private Capital for Public Works: Designing the
Next-Generation Franchise for Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation Infrastructure
by John Christopher Kopp : http://iti.acns.nwu.edu/clear/infr/kopp/index.html
Norway
Sorry, not much here on PRT, APM, AGV,
ITS etc....
(-after the techno-optimistic and modernistic post-WW II period innovation became a
foreign word regarding transport, everywhere, it seems)
But finally one by Norconsult A.S in
Oslo:
This is the following up on a very preliminary report from 1997, which was more
oriented towards traditional trams: http://www.norconsult.no/transport_fornebu_n.htm
1971: Trafikal
og økonomisk vurdering av 'sportaxi' i Trondheim, by Ludvigsen, Øystein,
Hovedoppgaver ved institutt for samferdselsteknikk, Hovedoppgaver på 70-tallet , 1971:
83: http://www.samf.ntnu.no/h-oppgav/h-opp-70.htm
Denmark
Førerløse
tog på vej frem - Ingeniørennet: http://www.ing.dk/arkiv/1799/ruffer01.html
Sweden
Innovativa Kollektiva trafiksystem.
Kunskapsöversikt. Ingmar Andrasson, KFB-Rapport 2000:69, 52 pages:
("Innovative Public collective transit systems - an overview") http://195.67.43.212/pdfer/R-00-69.pdf
Spårtaxi.
Et effektivt och hållbart trafiksystem. Analyser av en pilotbana i Stockholm - marknad
och ekonomi. KFB-Rapport 1999:4
(Kommunikationsforskningsberedningen, Stockholm) by Transek & LogistikCentrum.
130 p. A summary in English: http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/goran.htm
Spårtaxi
- ett lämpligt transportsystem för svenska tätorter? Ingmar Andréasson,
KFB-Rapport 1998:13 (Kommunikationsforskningsberedningen, Stockholm) 47 p. In English: PRT - a Suitable Transport System for Urban Areas
in Sweden: http://www.kretsloop.se/rapp/prt98sw.html
A few documents on "spårtaxi" are available
from the Regionplane- och Trafikkontoret, Stockholm, http://www.rtk.sll.se/pub/form2.htm
Se especially: 7:97 Pilotbana med
spårtaxi. 90 p.
Spårtaxi
i Göteborg (Chalmers Tekniska Högskola): http://www.vr-centrum.educ.goteborg.se/taxi.htm
A video on: PRT System in Swedish Towns
- Conditions given by and consequences for town structure and townscape (by Chalmers
Tekniska Högskola): http://www.arch.chalmers.se/stads_o_trafik/stads_o_trafik_publ1.html
TFK - Institutet för Transportforskning, Stockholm & Chalmers, Göteborg, 1992:7 Spårtaxi
för persontransporter: 83 p. http://www.tfk.se/publik/index.asp
A social cost-benefit analysis of a Personal
rapid transit (PRT) system in central Gothenburg: http://www.handels.gu.se/econ/EEU/rsterner.htm
1970: Spårtaxi
i Göteborg.
Switzerland/
Great Britain:
MAIT int. (Modular Automated Individual
Transport): http://www.MaitInt.org
2001:
"Alternative Transportation Simulation Software, Specifications and
Architecture":
http://web.onetelnet.ch/~joerg/mait/doc/project.pdf
USA
See the above links to articles, such as:
Planning and Deployment Issues, Methods and Information Resources: http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/itrans3.htm
And:
The Presidents Commission on Critical Infrastructure
Protection: http://www.pccip.gov/
TEA-21 - Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tea21/sumtoc.htm
Jane's Information Group -- the well
respected source of accurate, objective information on military and civilian technologies
-- published just this spring a special report entitled "The World Market for
Automated People-Movers". Researched and compiled by Boston-based
planner-journalist Lawrence J. Fabian, the report contains
- a quantitative overview of world APM
accomplishments
- a frank description of today's urban transit
marketplace
- 10-year APM market forecasts in transit,
institutional and architectural realms
- world-level listing of current APM suppliers
and consultants
- a glossary of APM-related terms
For further information, contact Karine Bach at (44-181) 700-3787, or email her at
Karine.Bach@janes.co.uk
. You can also visit www.transport.janes.com
Popular
Articles & Diverse
See also news from Norsk Sportaxi above: News .
International news :
The most informative newssite on PRT is due, as usual,
to Jerry Scheider:
http://faculty.u.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/whatsnew.htm
Various:
June 10th 2000, NY Times article on SkyTran
is on the web at:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000611mag-train.html
April 24th,1999: New Scientist on Dual-Mode
Vehicles: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990424/forum.html
Jan 15th,1999: Aftonbladet, Stockholm: Ta
spårtaxi til ditt jobb ("Take a PRT to your job"): http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/9901/15/taxi.html
1996: Raytheon and Illinois to Invest $38
Million in Taxi 2000 PRT. Article in Research Review: http://www.geom.umn.edu/~daeron/docs/prt.html
Ross Sound: A short movie of sportaxi in
Stockholm (Quick-Time format): http://www.ross.se/film&video.html
Bernard Architects: Är det här Linköping
år 2002? http://www.bernhardt-arkitekter.se/st9903a.htm
Visual Intrusion Study of PRT Guideways in Gävle, Sweden: http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/gavle.htm