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links to Innovative Transit
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
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/
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/
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
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/
Forthcoming...
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