What's New Archive, 2002

December, 2002

New automated freight product from Siemens Transportation, called CargoMover

Article reviews seven emerging transportation technologies

November, 2002

Seattle monorail plan narrowly approved by voters

Study of alternative transit technologies released by Sound Transit of Seattle, Washington

Link to a new website for the City Shuttle concept - designed to provide circulator service in Major Activity Centers and other high density areas of the city

New German website that describes CompuCar concept - has English component

October, 2002

"Prognosis for Intelligent Surface Transportation" is intended to be a basis for further innovation and for presentations to legislators

Recent photos show rapid progress on MicroRail PRT vehicle and guideway

New paper on the ULTra PRT system being developed in the U.K. (it's a large pdf file, 1.8+ megabytes)

September, 2002 

Results of a dualmode vehicle design study from Germany and Sweden

Description of the Bee-Hive dualmode concept which features the use of trucks carrying small personal vehicles on urban freeways

Taxi 2000 raises enought development money from private investors to begin Phase I Prototype program

New video at the ULTra PRT website, about 4 megabytes in size, click on News button to get access to it.

Pallets Revisited and Other Dualmode Comments, by Kim Goltermann. Response by William Turnbull

August, 2002

Information about the German Schmid Peoplemover system for assisting pedestrians cross heavy roadway traffic and other barriers to pedestrian movement

Several new photos of the Las Colinas Urban Center and its Automated Peoplemover system have been posted by Jon Bell. They are especially good for illustrating the visual properties of an elevated guideway in an Urban Center.

What does PRT cost?

Excerpt from Tomorrow's Transportation: New Systems for the Urban Future

July, 2002

New photoindex page for casual ITT website browsing

Critique of dualmode concepts by David Gow

Description of the CyberCab concept in a 1996 book by Finnish author Eero Paloheimo

New maglev concept called Interstate Traveler, includes dualmode capability

New book entitled The Transportation Renaissance: The PRT Solution, by Edmund W. F. Rydell now available

Listing of transportation technologies examined in the Future Urban Transportation Systems report from the Stanford Research Institute, published in 1968

Table of Contents from new dualmode book (awaiting publication) by Francis D. Reynolds

     June, 2002

Dualmode station design (illustration and commentary) as described in a patent for a Personalized Transportation System, issued to Homer T. McCrary

Las Colinas: The Inside Story of America's Premier Development - a 2001 book that includes current information on the Las Colinas automated peoplemover and its role in the development of this large complex in Texas. Also see this Los Colinas web page.

Personal Rapid Transit versus Dual Mode Transportation, by Francis D. Reynolds

CyberTran project in Albany, New York, moving forward

Photo of American Maglev vehicle being placed on guideway at Old Dominion University

Link to new website for Magna-Force's LEVX maglev technology being developed in Washington State

SIPEM peoplemover at the Dusseldorf International Airport in Germany scheduled to begin operations in  July, 2002

Chronology of Maglev Activity in Germany

May, 2002

Link to website for York PRT - which looks like a reincarnation of Raytheon's PRT 2000

Link to an article in Oregon's Future Online: "Had enough of auto-dominance yet?"

Colorado Department of Transportion maglev research program description

MegaRail Transportation Systems awarded patent for maglev version of their technology

World's first Magplane line moves forward in China

April, 2002 

Report on low speed maglev technology development program from General Atomics published and now available on-line as a large (1.3 megabyte) pdf file

MicroRail guideway segment built and static tests conducted successfully - see Press Release

An article about the British ULTra PRT system in Cardiff is available in the March-April issue of Urban Transport International

Book entitled The Transportation Renaissance: The PRT Solution, by Edmund Rydell published and available at amazon.com or xlibris.com (go to bookstore and search). It's 232 pages, hard or soft cover, October, 2001.

The Federal Role in the Development of Automated Peoplemovers in the 1970's: Some Historical Recollections

University of Pennsylvania professor and assistant publish sharp critique of maglev technologies in Transportation Quarterly

March, 2002

Maglev patent awarded to Kirston Henderson of Megarail Transportation Systems

Link to a Russian website that describes a string transport system that features very minimal guideway structures - includes a very extensive FAQ component

New 17-minute PRT video now available from Taxi 2000. Contact Steve at ProMedia Productions for a copy

Link to a new maglev website for the Modern Transport Systems Corporation, located in California

February, 2002

Link to a description of the Rideway concept

New page on the CyberCab peoplemover technology now being deployed in the Netherlands

Major update of the Parkshuttle automated peoplemover development and operations in the Netherlands

Link to new Transrapid-USA website

Construction of World's First Transrapid Maglev Railway in Shanghai - Progress Report

Illustrations of an areawide, large-scale Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) network, for Minneapolis-St. Paul,  showing how its development could be staged over time

January, 2002

Thuma - a new transport concept from Germany

Eyewitness report by Steve Raney on the ULTra PRT project in Cardiff, Wales, announced on January 17, 2001.  Includes a diagram of the test track, a variety of pictures and a video

Four recent photos of the Serpentine peoplemover vehicle from Switzerland

Automated freight study at the Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Roadrunner website - a very large bus concept from the U.K.

December, 2002

New automated freight product from Siemens Transportation, called CargoMover

Article reviews seven emerging transportation technologies

November, 2002

Seattle monorail plan narrowly approved by voters

Study of alternative transit technologies released by Sound Transit of Seattle, Washington

Link to a new website for the City Shuttle concept - designed to provide circulator service in Major Activity Centers and other high density areas of the city

New German website that describes CompuCar concept - has English component

October, 2002

"Prognosis for Intelligent Surface Transportation" is intended to be a basis for further innovation and for presentations to legislators

Recent photos show rapid progress on MicroRail PRT vehicle and guideway

New paper on the ULTra PRT system being developed in the U.K. (it's a large pdf file, 1.8+ megabytes)

September, 2002 

Results of a dualmode vehicle design study from Germany and Sweden

Description of the Bee-Hive dualmode concept which features the use of trucks carrying small personal vehicles on urban freeways

Taxi 2000 raises enought development money from private investors to begin Phase I Prototype program

New video at the ULTra PRT website, about 4 megabytes in size, click on News button to get access to it.

Pallets Revisited and Other Dualmode Comments, by Kim Goltermann. Response by William Turnbull

August, 2002

Information about the German Schmid Peoplemover system for assisting pedestrians cross heavy roadway traffic and other barriers to pedestrian movement

Several new photos of the Las Colinas Urban Center and its Automated Peoplemover system have been posted by Jon Bell. They are especially good for illustrating the visual properties of an elevated guideway in an Urban Center.

What does PRT cost?

Excerpt from Tomorrow's Transportation: New Systems for the Urban Future

July, 2002

New photoindex page for casual ITT website browsing

Critique of dualmode concepts by David Gow

Description of the CyberCab concept in a 1996 book by Finnish author Eero Paloheimo

New maglev concept called Interstate Traveler, includes dualmode capability

New book entitled The Transportation Renaissance: The PRT Solution, by Edmund W. F. Rydell now available

Listing of transportation technologies examined in the Future Urban Transportation Systems report from the Stanford Research Institute, published in 1968

Table of Contents from new dualmode book (awaiting publication) by Francis D. Reynolds

     June, 2002

Dualmode station design (illustration and commentary) as described in a patent for a Personalized Transportation System, issued to Homer T. McCrary

Las Colinas: The Inside Story of America's Premier Development - a 2001 book that includes current information on the Las Colinas automated peoplemover and its role in the development of this large complex in Texas. Also see this Los Colinas web page.

Personal Rapid Transit versus Dual Mode Transportation, by Francis D. Reynolds

CyberTran project in Albany, New York, moving forward

Photo of American Maglev vehicle being placed on guideway at Old Dominion University

Link to new website for Magna-Force's LEVX maglev technology being developed in Washington State

SIPEM peoplemover at the Dusseldorf International Airport in Germany scheduled to begin operations in  July, 2002

Chronology of Maglev Activity in Germany

May, 2002

Link to website for York PRT - which looks like a reincarnation of Raytheon's PRT 2000

Link to an article in Oregon's Future Online: "Had enough of auto-dominance yet?"

Colorado Department of Transportion maglev research program description

MegaRail Transportation Systems awarded patent for maglev version of their technology

World's first Magplane line moves forward in China

April, 2002 

Report on low speed maglev technology development program from General Atomics published and now available on-line as a large (1.3 megabyte) pdf file

MicroRail guideway segment built and static tests conducted successfully - see Press Release

An article about the British ULTra PRT system in Cardiff is available in the March-April issue of Urban Transport International

Book entitled The Transportation Renaissance: The PRT Solution, by Edmund Rydell published and available at amazon.com or xlibris.com (go to bookstore and search). It's 232 pages, hard or soft cover, October, 2001.

The Federal Role in the Development of Automated Peoplemovers in the 1970's: Some Historical Recollections

University of Pennsylvania professor and assistant publish sharp critique of maglev technologies in Transportation Quarterly

March, 2002

Maglev patent awarded to Kirston Henderson of Megarail Transportation Systems

Link to a Russian website that describes a string transport system that features very minimal guideway structures - includes a very extensive FAQ component

New 17-minute PRT video now available from Taxi 2000. Contact Steve at ProMedia Productions for a copy

Link to a new maglev website for the Modern Transport Systems Corporation, located in California

February, 2002

Link to a description of the Rideway concept

New page on the CyberCab peoplemover technology now being deployed in the Netherlands

Major update of the Parkshuttle automated peoplemover development and operations in the Netherlands

Link to new Transrapid-USA website

Construction of World's First Transrapid Maglev Railway in Shanghai - Progress Report

Illustrations of an areawide, large-scale Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) network, for Minneapolis-St. Paul,  showing how its development could be staged over time

January, 2002

Thuma - a new transport concept from Germany

Eyewitness report by Steve Raney on the ULTra PRT project in Cardiff, Wales, announced on January 17, 2001.  Includes a diagram of the test track, a variety of pictures and a video

Four recent photos of the Serpentine peoplemover vehicle from Switzerland

Automated freight study at the Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Roadrunner website - a very large bus concept from the U.K.


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