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Link to Q&A on Get Onboard PRT |
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Written by Administrator
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This has been the one real concern about PRT. There is active interest in more and more cities and countries. The possibilities are exciting. Many people have given of their free time because they have seen in PRT a means for a profound improvement in the functioning of urban areas. Those willing to listen, study and compare are seeing that in greater and greater numbers. A critical mass of interest is developing.
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Why has it taken so long to get true PRT into operation? |
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Written by Administrator
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The PRT concept germinated in the early 1950s and received enough attention by the mid 1960s to be the subject of government-funded analysis. By the early 1970s, there were many competing ideas on how to design automated transit systems, but there was no theory of PRT and there were insufficient funds to explore the dozens of alternative design features. This "Tower of Babel" discouraged decision makers, caused government funding to dry up, and left the continued search for an optimum configuration up to a few people.
A major reason it was possible in the 1980s to carry PRT research and development far enough to regain the attention of major transit decision makers was the emergence of the personal computer and associated software. Finding the optimum transit configuration and proving it required sophisticated and data-intensive engineering and economic calculations, detailed simulations of control and vehicle dynamics, and a great deal of data processing, which during the 1970s was much slower and required large resources, generally funded only by governments. The PC enabled engineers of ordinary means to purchase enough computer power to develop the optimum system and element designs. In parallel, the development of powerful fault-tolerant microprocessors and software elements have placed the control requirements of PRT well within the current state-of-art.
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How can we be so sure of the characteristics of Taxi 2000 in advance of testing? |
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Written by Administrator
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Because the design has been reviewed so thoroughly and because it was found that achievement of the characteristics described is well within the state-of-art.
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Can a bicycle be taken aboard a Taxi 2000 PRT vehicle? |
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Written by Administrator
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There are two ways to load a bicycle on a PRT vehicle: either on a rack outside, or inside. With our 50-inch interior width and room for a wheelchair, most bikes with one person would fit inside, and that would be the fastest and safest way to load. We have definitely included the need to accommodate a bicycle in our specifications for the PRT vehicle cabin. We have always seen compatibility between bikers and PRT, both because a fraction of the population would like to bike to and from PRT stations, and because bikeways and walkways can be placed on the ground under a PRT line.
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