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links to Innovative Transit

Various Informative Sites

Company Sites with Extensive Information

Resources

Electric Vehicles

Associations

Propulsion & Fuel

Sustainable transportation

Research Initiatives

Norwegian sites: Have a look below under Domestic Transport Unfortunately there is not much to see on innovation

To search for information on PRT and SporTaxi:
Use a good search engine: 
www.ussc.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/advsearch?
or 
http://www.google.com/advanced_search.html
and type:
- for texts in Norwegian: sportaxi, - for texts in Swedish: spårtaxi
- for texts in English: cabtrack, monorail, automated urban transit, smart cities, PRT (Personal Rapid Transit), APM (Automated People Movers), AGV (Automated and Guided Vehicles) ...


Various Informative Sites

Innovative Transportation Technologies, THE very best reference site! - by Jerry Schneider:
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/

And their links to interesting international transportation websites:
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/links.htm

Transit-Focused Development: http://www.peak.org/~jbs/

Monorails of the World:
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/monolink.htm

Jerry Schneider's home page: http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs

Jerry Schneider's: Links to Other Interesting Transportation Websites: http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/links.htm


Resources  

Global

International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database: http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/stn/Databases/itrd.html

World Bank (IBRD): Urban Transport Overview: http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/transport/ut_ss.htm

US

THE DIRECTORY OF TRANSPORTATION RESOURCES, USA: http://dragon.princeton.edu/~dhb/systems.html

Transportation Directories, Glossaries, and Other Internet Resources: http://www.nas.edu/trb/link/trandir.html

Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS): http://www.nas.edu/trb/about/trisfram.html

TRIS: http://206.205.49.52/sundev/search.cfm

US Bureau of Transportation Statistics: http://www.bts.gov/

US Federal Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation (TRI): http://www.fta.dot.gov/office/research/

Centre for Urban Transportation Research (Florida): http://www.cutr.eng.usf.edu/

Melvyl Digital Transport Library: http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu/

Modern Transit Society, Inc.: http://www.trainweb.com/mts/index.html

Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS): http://www.nas.edu/trb/about/trisfram.html

National Transportation Library: http://www.bts.gov/NTL

UC Berkeley Transportation Library: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ITSL/

Victoria Transport Policy Institute: https://www.islandnet.com/~litman/

Europe

Routes International, France: http://routesinternational.com/links.htm

Transrapid links (maglev train): http://henkstokhorst.simplenet.com/zuiderzeelijn/links.html

Asia

Asia Infrastructure Database: http://www.asiatown.com/aid/homepage.htm

Asia Infrastructure Development Alliance (AIDA): http://www.unescap.org/tctd/aida.htm

Diverse

ACCIDENT PREVENTION HOME PAGE: http://www.ficom.net/members/recon/

Growth Management Institute: http://www.gmionline.org/


Associations

Global

APM'99 - World-wide Conference on Automated People Movers 1999 in Copenhagen:  http://www.ida.dk/apm99/

International Union of Public Transport: http://www.uitp.com/

Sustainable Communities: http://www.sustainable.org/

The International ITS Clearinghouse (Information Technology Systems) : http://www.itsa.org/

Europe

The Association for European Transport: http://www.aetransport.demon.co.uk/

US

American Public Transit Association: http://www.apta.com/

ATRA - The Advanced Transit Association: http://advancedtransit.org/

CATS - Citizens for Advanced Transportation Solutions: http://sites.netscape.net/gspellmang/cats.html

CITIZENS FOR COMMON SENSE IN TRANSPORTATION: http://www.wolfenet.com/~rune/CommonSense.htm

Citizens for Personal Rapid Transit: http://www2.visi.com/friday/cprt/cprthome.htm

Congress for the New Urbanism: http://www.cnu.org/

Modern Transit Society, Inc.: http://www.trainweb.com/mts/index.html

The MONORAIL society: http://www.monorails.org/

Reason Foundation: http://www.reason.org/

ANTI - Light Rail:

De-Rail The Tax: http://www.de-railthetax.org/

The Goldwater Institute: http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/

The Public Purpose: http://www.publicpurpose.com/

Railroading America: http://www.railroadingamerica.com/

Various: 

Roller Coaster technology: http://www.thrillride.com/ThrillRidefrontpage.html

Download Fitzpatrick Engineering's crash simulation software: http://www.fitzpatrickengineering.com/

Proponents for a $25 billion, 200 mph High Speed rail for California: http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/


Sustainable transportation

Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities: http://www.healthycommunities.org

Sprawlwatch Clearinghouse: http://www.sprawlwatch.org

The Sustainable Transportation Forum: http://www.ecoplan.org/access/ac_index.htm

Take Back Your Streets: http://www.clf.org/pubs/street1.htm

Transportation Action Network: http://www.transact.org - and their links collection: http://www.transact.org/inter.htm

Consultant Sites with Extensive Information

US

Public Purpose: http://www.publicpurpose.com/

Small Idea Concepts Company: http://home.fuse.net/smallidea/

Calthorpe Associates, Urban Designers, Planners, Architects: http://www.calthorpe.com/

Europe

Transek (Sweden):  http://www.transek.se/


Company Sites with Extensive Information

US

Taxi2000 - one of the very best cab-track concepts - by the nestor of the trade - and with a lot of great articles on the subject: http://www.Taxi2000.com

Skytran, suspended maglev cabs, innovative design: http://www.SkyTran.net/

Europe

Denmark: RUF- Rapid Urban Flexible - a dual-mode system: http://www.ruf.dk/

Norway: Norsk Sportaxi: http://SporTaxi.com

Sweden: SwedeTrack System ("Flyway" - in English and partly in Swedish): http://SwedeTrack.com  

Switzerland/ Great Britain:  MAIT int. (Modular Automated Individual Transport)http://www.MaitInt.org


Infrastructure in Scandinavia
: http://www.tidtabeller.com/infra/

Denmark:

Norway: (see also Domestic Transport )

Traffikanten: http://www.sol.no/trafikanten/

Transportweb: http://www.sy-nett.no/

Sweden:

ChalmersTekniska Høgskola, Stads- och trafikplanering vid sektionen för arkitektur: http://www.chalmers.se/forskningskompetens/trafikplan.html

The Swedish Green Party's program:
- for environmentally friendly transport: http://www.gbg.miljopartiet.se/budget98/trafik.html
- for communication: http://www.oviksbuss.se/pol/mp/pp13.htm

FRODO-planen - Alternative Communication in Stockholm: http://www.nordnet.se/altdennis/frodo/

Sigtunas Kommuns vision of a long term sustainable transport system: http://www.sigtuna.se/miljo/agenda21/dokument/kommunik.htm


Electric Vehicles

EV World - The World of Advanced Electric Cars, Hybrid-electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles: http://evworld.com/

National Station Car Association: http://www.stncar.com/

THINK: http://www.thinkmobility.com/


Propulsion & Fuel

Forthcoming...


Research Initiatives

Norway

Forskningsrådet LOKTRA (Lokal transportpolitikk): http://www.sol.no/forskningsradet/program/loktra/

Forskningsrådet TYIN (Tjenesteyting/Infostruktur):  http://www.sol.no/forskningsradet/program/tyin/

Nordic

NORDIC ENVIRONMENT FINANCE CORPORATION: http://www.nefco.fi/

EU - information on the Cordis pages

The Information Society Technologies Programme (IST): http://www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html

EUREKA - http://www2.eureka.be/home/index.html

EU's 5th Framework: http://www.cordis.lu/fp5/home.html

Key activity 4: "City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage": http://www.cordis.lu/eesd/src/library.htm

and http://www.cordis.lu/eesd/src/d-oj-en4.htm#KA4

Subgroup 3 is Sustainable Cities, subgroup 4 is Sustainable Urban Transport

THEME 3 COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: http://www.cordis.lu/fp5/src/ec-en6.htm

The Environmental programme: http://www.cordis.lu/eesd/home.html

UN

Unctad - Multimodal Transport Section Homepage: http://www.unctad.org/en/subsites/multimod/mt1home.htm

US

TEA-21 - Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tea21/sumtoc.htm