What's New Archive, 2000
December, 2000
Agenda and on-line materials from speakers at a futurist conference entitled Transportation Vision 2050, held in Seattle, September 26-27, 2000
Sound Transit (Seattle) conducts an Advanced Transit Technology study. The objective of this study is to identify 6-10 advanced transit technologies for possible use by Sound Transit (Seattle) after 2007
First National Station/Shared Car Conference, Atlanta, April 17-19, 2001
Friends of the Monorail (FOM) in Seattle files a lawsuit against Sound Transit, charging that its Final Environment Impact Statement (FEIS) did not adequately consider alternative technologies. The full text of the FOM motion and brief are available at the FOM website. It asks that the FEIS be vacated.
The Elevated Transportation Company in Seattle begins a $6 million study designed to produce a monorail plan for the City of Seattle to take to the voters for approval. Details are available at the ETC website.
Florida High Speed Ground Transportation Initiative - ballot title and full text (passed November, 2000 with a 52.7% Yes vote)
November, 2000
Link to a Swiss website that describes the Twike technology - a small electric/bicycle-like vehicle
Link to an article by Emory Bundy entitled "Why Rail?". This article has had a significant impact on rail transit planning in Seattle in recent months.
Attendee reports and presentation papers from the New Visions in Transportation conference, held in Aspen, Colorado, October, 2000
October, 2000
Air-powered monorail called Whoosh under development in the U.K.
Engineer develops Personal Flying Machine
Link to a new website that describes a Freeway Monorail concept for the Seattle region. A monorail initiative (I-53) will be voted on in Seattle in November, 2000.
News from Japan: The Future Shape of Transportation
New Intelligent Transportation Systems - Decisions website at the University of California, Berkeley
New transportation website now available. It has a European location and orientation
Conference announcement : SAFE Highways of the Future 2001 to be held in Cannes, France, January 10-12, 2001 Includes a session on Automated Highway Systems.
September, 2000
Link to a new website that describes the Serpentine automated guided vehicle technology that is being developed in Switzerland
Link to Trafficlinq - a new European Tracking Service website that provides a wide variety of transportation information.
Several excellent photos of the Jacksonville, Florida Downtown Peoplemover are now available.
The Advanced Transit Association (ATRA) Newsletter for Autumn, 2000, is now available for downloading
August, 2000
Link to information about how to acquire a copy of the book entitled Innovation and Public Policy: The Case of PRT, by Professor Catherine Burke; includes a review and table of contents
Link to the new website for the ULTra PRT technology being developed at the U of Bristol in the U.K.
Link to the California Maglev Project, one of seven competing in the FRA Maglev Depolyment Program
Link to the Evacuated Tube Transportation website from a company in Florida
Posted Chapter 9 (A New Type of Minicity) from the book entitled Tomorrow's Transportation by Garrison and Ward, published in March of 2000. It describes a concept that would use a simple, indoor PRT-type peoplemover technology
Updated information about the FRA Maglev Technology Deployment Program
Conference announcement - 8th International Conference on Automated Peoplemovers; includes a Call for Papers
July, 2000
Added a major update to the Urbanaut monorail page
Link to a website that features a list of the 100 Top Transportation websites
Link to a website called Fuel Cells in Transportation
June, 2000
Link to a German website (English version available) that describes a maglev dualmode concept called Autoshuttle
Eleven photos of opening day (June 9, 2000) at the RUF test track in Denmark are now available (look under events). An overview of the RUF dualmode concept is also available for those unfamiliar with it.
Added paper by Ingmar Andréasson that describes results obtained from a simulation of a large PRT network for Gothenburg, Sweden
Added several new contributions to the Dualmode Debate page
May, 2000
Article on prospects for a maglev application on the Las Vegas-LA route
Conference announcement: New Visions in Transportation: Accelerating Emerging Technologies and Innovative Designs, Aspen, Colorado, October, 2000
Added comments from William Bowen regarding the attributes of the Autobus dualmode concept.
Added a discussion of the problems and potentials of a national dualmode system to the Dualmode Debate page.
Link to an article in the Daily Herald newspaper (Chicago suburbs) entitled "Plan falls apart for Personal Rapid Transit system", printed May 13, 2000.
Link to a press release concerning a revolutionary material handling system called MagneTrak
Link to an updated website that describes a maglift type monorail being proposed for connecting Brisbane to Redcliffe and Sunshine Coast in Australia.
April, 2000
Link to a new website by Autran Corporation - a system with carrier vehicles that will carry autos, passenger cabins and freight containers
Link to a new capsule pipeline website, which is focused on urban goods movement
Link to the EAZEway transport website - a suspended railplane concept being developed in Canada
March, 2000
ADART - Autonomous Dial-a-Ride - overview report (1988) - Table of Contents only.
Tomorrow's Transportation: Changing Cities, Economies and Lives - see the Table of Contents of this new book by Garrison and Ward.
Link to a new website from Frog Navigation Systems in the Netherlands - see peoplemover and automated cargo sections.
Request for letters of interest regarding a study of a maglev route from LAX to Riverside in Southern California (Los Angeles region), due April 15, 2000
February, 2000
Added link to the VLRS ultra-light rail system website in the U.K.
Added two new contributions to the Dualmode Debate page
Posted article entitled Analysis of Dualmode Systems in an Urban Area, by Peter Benjamin
Photo of the first test vehicle for the Danish RUF dualmode system
Link to the Synchro-Rail website in the U.K. - features dual mode, small electric autos propelled by linear synchronous motors
January, 2000
Call for Papers: 2nd International Symposium on Underground Freight Transport by Capsule Pipelines and Other Tube/Tunnel Systems, Delft, 28-29 September 2000
Link to a Special Report entitled "Is Maglev in Our Future", published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in March, 1999. You may have to search the archives for this series of articles.
Link to the MegaRail website - a dual mode system being developed in Texas
Link to the Modular Automated Transportation (MAT) website in Switzerland
Two new contributions to the PRT Debate page, by J.E. Anderson
Press release that describes a new maglev project at Old Dominion University in Hampton Roads, VA
Link to the website of The Flash - a new, low-cost PRT system concept
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