Design, Planning and Evaluation Methods and Issues

General Information

• Examples of Origin-Destination Maps, showing 1990 home-based work trips, between subregions, in the Twin Cities of Minnesota
• The Transportation Planning Process: Key Issues A Briefing Book for Transportation Decisionmakers, Officials, and Staff, 11-27-2007
•  

  Podaris Update 1.9, 2017,  provides some new capabilities for the Podaris PRT system design, planning and evaluation software (Use left arrow to see info about previous versions)

   

Dualmode Systems

• Dualmode Overview Page
• Dualmode Debate Page
• Proposed System Design Requirements for Dual Mode Transportation 
• RUF Network Design Experiment for the Seattle Metropolitan Region
• RUF Station Design - An Initial Approach
• Dualmode station design included in a patent application
• RUF Simulation program and User's Guide, Version 1, available for download, October, 2001

PRT/PAT/Podcar Overview and Definitions

• PRT/PAT Overview Page
• PRT/PAT Debate Page
• Proposed Definition of an Ideal Personal Rapid Transit Technology

PRT/PAT/Podcar System, Guideway, Network and Station Location/Design Methods

• PRT Network Design Example (how to do it)
• PRT as a Feeder System for High Speed Rail/Maglev Transportation Systems
• PRT Network Design Software (C-CAD) Description
• Designing APM Circulator Systems for Major Activity Centers: An Interactive Graphic Approach
• Major Activity Center PRT Circulator System Station Design and Visual Analysis 
• Trade-offs to consider when designing a transit system
• Presentation of a PRT Study for Södertälje, Sweden
• How to Design a PRT Guideway, by Ed Anderson
• Integrating PRT and Mass Transit to improve areawide transit service in a test city, by Ingmar Andreasson
• Connecting  personal to mass transit,  slide presentation, 44 pp, by Ingmar Andreasson, 2016
•  

PRT/PAT/Podcar Operations Analyses and Simulation Software 

• Software for Simulating the Operations of a PRT System
• Reallocation of Empty PRT Vehicles enRoute, by Ingmar Andrčasson, November, 2002
• Extending PRT Capabilities, by Ingmar Andreasson - explores ways to increase the capacity and speed of PRT

PRT/PAT/Podcar Technology Comparison/Evaluation Methods

• Evaluation Questions for Assessing Conventional Transit Technologies 
• Evaluation Questions Especially Useful for Assessing Innovative Transit Technologies
• Financing Transit Usage with PodCars in 59 Swedish Cities, 47 pp, by Göran Tegnér, 6/6/2009

PRT/PAT Demand Forecasting,Benefit/Cost Analyses and Other Application Issues

• Using Virtual Reality Techniques to Test Rider's Reactions to Making a PRT Trip
• Visual Intrusion of Elevated Guideways (Swedish study)
• Break-Even Fare Analysis for PRT Systems  
• Capital Costs and Ridership Estimates of PRT, by Supin Yoder, et al, January 2000
• Travel Characteristics at Large-Scale Suburban Activity Centers, NCHRP Report 323, 1989
• Benefits and Costs of a Podcar Network in 59 Swedish Cities - the Role of City Size in the Net Benefits, by Göran Tegnér, 6/6/2009
  

Maglev Planning and Methods Information

• Federal Railroad Administration's Maglev website
• Federal Transit Administration's Urban Magnetic Levitation Transit Technology Development Program
• How Station Spacing Affects Average Speed on a High Speed Rail/Maglev Line
• National Maglev Initiative Report - an extensive national-scale, multi-year study, begun in 1990
• Overview and more details about worldwide maglev activities
• Assessing the Station and Access System Design Requirements of a Small Magplane System for Intercity Travel

• FTA report on low speed maglev research program - focused on lessons learned, March, 2009, 47 pp.

Monorail Planning and Methods Information

• The Monorail Society website
• Seattle Monorail project planning documents
• Information about the Las Vegas monorail project
• Information about the Kuala Lumpur monorail project in Maylaysia
• Links to major monorail companies around the world

Automated Highway Systems Planning and Methods

• Vehicle-Highway Automation: Directions, Challenges and Contributing Factors, by R. Lay and L. Saxon, 2000

Last modified: July 28, 2017