Personal Rapid Transit in New Zealand - Future Transit Now

This paper compares the middle two options among the spectrum listed above. Alternative #3 will be referred to hereinafter as "Single Mode" or SM. Alternative #4 is called "Dual Mode" or DM. DM has the advantage over SM for auto drivers that the same vehicle may be taken for any trip, just as occurs now with one's own automobile. In many respects, DM is much like the system envisioned by advocates of alternative #5, an Intelligent Vehicle Highway System, except that special narrower guideways could be used for the automated guideway portion of the trip.

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This set of rules are regarded by Dr Anderson as the most fundamental in the search he has conducted for a truly optimum PRT design. It came out of many years of design practice, research, and teaching. When PRT projects have gone sour Dr Anderson has found that the root cause has been violation of one or more of these rules. The contents of this paper is included in Dr Anderson's key paper "The Future of HCPRT,"

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The author was invited to speak at North Park College as the 1994 Distinguished Alumnus Lecturer on his role in the development of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), the first genu­inely new urban transportation system to ap­pear in a century.  This Chapel Lecture de­scribes his relevant technical experience, his search for meaning, his need for interdisciplin­ary project work, and the extraordinary circum­stances and timing that led him to PRT as a new career and that carried this work to the point where it has been taken over by a major corporation and a major urban transportation authority.  The lecture ends with a challenge to young people to aim high and seek a noble cause of fundamental importance to mankind.