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Report No. DOT-TSC-UMTA-81-65 Transit Technology Evaluation A Literature Capsule O U.S. Department of Transportation Urban Mass Transportation Administration Introduction As part of its ongoing commitment to the • Market research to ascertain the nature and principle of technology sharing, the U.S. Depart- magnitude of the potential market for ment of Transportation has initiated a series of pub- technology deployment; lications based on research and development efforts • Impacts investigation to determine how the sponsored by the Department. The series comprises technology will affect users and the sur- technical reports, state-of-the-art documents, news- rounding community with regard to aes- letters and bulletins, manuals and handbooks, bibli- thetic, environmental, and social issues. ographies, and other special publications. All share a primary objective: to contribute to a better base of Section I of the capsule contains overviews of knowledge and understanding throughout the selected documents representative of the above transportation community and, thereby, to an im- areas of study. Section II provides summaries of provement in the basis for decision-making within additional Transit Technology Evaluation Program the community. documents. Section III presents summaries of pub- lications which, for the most part, were prepared The Transit Technology Evaluation Literature outside the Transit Technology Evaluation Program, Capsule is designed to make the literature on trans- but which are highly relevant to its work. portation concerning promising new transit tech- Readers seeking more detailed discussions of nology more accessible to users. Most of the publi- the subject matter are encouraged to refer to the cations surveyed in this capsule represent the results original reports, which are available through the of projects funded by the Transit Technology National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Evaluation Program and its predecessor, the Auto- 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia, 22161. mated Guideway Transit Socio-Economic Research NTIS numbers assigned to each report and by which Program, of the Office of Socio-Economic and they can be ordered have been provided whenever Special Projects, Urban Mass Transportation Admin- possible. istration (UMTA). The Transit Technology Evalua- tion Program investigates the technical, social, and economic factors involved in the planning and oper- ation of promising new transit technologies through studies in four basic areas: • Assessments of operational systems to com- pile information on the performance, techni- cal, and economic characteristics; • Cost analyses including capital, operating and maintenance costs, as well as life cycle costing and cost trends; 1 :m I'mm ‘li: "'i*. .. - '"I ? *=« - ttoifeiilloitnl ® ® -Bl i * ,iA, *i' ap* , }sim ^ l.'l 1^ " vaif, Id' » ‘^«WV)!»^ W!36 -i»Tljft) i^ OJ mn,(M«i«a ="‘S%SsS 'Eis&assass 'tPjt i'. 't3 ; • ' i4Tii.£i4^ ' ^if niimw #«» Sfmsr-^ -. >v^’ :«e; 1« ivi^^;ta?raf?|tf)( w;fei{p4|i0lr Si*, -iv^5 ^. t^Rii ^ m - \i\ Mtdifefc .^^.iiVltr, «JJjffe0« «&'• ,s/1< »i. nOai 01J»S;4K3t«»>:4v/) Tsjj. '•"W 3«b ^Sgi'X*if#J' 4ftsJ|>f'.‘l o)H ..... .«nl^tVJ>r«l4»nf , MU feWv! Mtum, %*«»*« n*«( wH e4>m,v^ fet>«i2 i3 V., "*-i»te«'j^il!ffiSs^T t)i»«# s ' if iiasjiB , ,,_ s; • ^ ^ ^ - Jh& ’ ‘ dlA • |(#0 #ii.tf<qf »»J 03 . ^^a^ i- .’ » Table of Contents SECTION I. Overviews of Selected Documents of the Transit Technology Evaluation Program Review of Local Alternatives Analyses Involving Automated Guideway Transit 3 Assessment of the Phase I Morgantown People Mover System 7 Roosevelt Island Tramway System Assessment 13 Summary of Capital and Operations & Maintenance Cost Experience of Automated Guideway Transit Systems; Costs and Trends for the Period 1976-1979 — Supplement II 17 AGT Aesthetics — A Handbook for Planning and Design of Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) Systems 23 An Analysis of the Market for Automated Guidway Transit 28 SECTION II. Summaries of Transit Technology Evaluation Program Documents Assessment of Operational Automated Guideway Systems — Airtrans (Phase I) 37 Assessment of Operational Automated Guideway Systems — Airtrans (Phase II) 38 Assessment of Operational Automated Guideway Systems — Jetrail 39 Assessment of the Automatically Controlled Transportation (ACT) System at Fairlane Town Center 39 Assessment of the Busch Gardens Automated Anheuser-Busch Shuttle System 40 Assessment of the Mueller Aerobus System; The System Installed and Operated for the Bundesgartenschau 1975, Mannheim, Germany 40 Assessment of the Passenger Shuttle System (PSS) at Tampa International Airport 41 Assessment of the Satellite Transit System (STS) at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport 41 Assessment of the Tunnel Train System at Houston Intercontinental Airport 44 Assessment of the UMI Type II Tourister AGT System at King’s Dominion 44 iii Assessment of the WEDway PeopleMover at Walt Disney World 45 Description and Technical Review of the Duke University Automated People/Cargo Transportation System 45 Description and Technical Review of the Miami International Airport Satellite Transit Shuttle System 46 Development/Deployment Investigation of Cabintaxi/Cabinlift Systems 47 Development/Deployment Investigation of H-Bahn System 49 Life Cycle Cost Model for Comparing ACT and Conventional Transit Alternatives 50 Summary of Capital and Operations & Maintenance Cost Experience of Automated Guideway Transit Systems 50 Summary of Capital and Operations & Maintenance Cost Experience of Automated Guideway Transit Systems: Costs and Trends for the Period 1976-1978 — Supplement I 51 Review of Downtown People Mover Proposals: Preliminary Market Implications for Downtown Applications of Automated Guideway Transit , 52 Automated Mixed Traffic Transit Market Analysis 52 Automated Guideway Transit Socio-Economic Research Program Findings 1976-1979 54 SECTION ill. Summaries of Related Documents Automated Guideway Transit Automated Guideway Transit — An Assessment of PRT and Other New Systems 57 Guideway Transportation, A Bibliography With Abstracts 57 Impact of Advanced Group Rapid Transit Technology 57 AGT Guideway and Station Technology: Volume 1, Executive Summary 58 People Mover Profile 58 Dual Mode Systems Dual Mode Transportation 59 Dual Mode Planning Case Study — Milwaukee, Volume I: Executive Summary and Planning Analysis 60 Dual Mode Planning Case Study — Orange County, Volume 1: Executive Summary and Planning Analysis 61 IV Analysis of Dual Mode Systems in an Urban Area, Volume 1; Summary 61 Accelerating Walkway Systems Accelerating Moving Walkway Systems — Executive Summary 62 Accelerating Walkway System Times Square — Grand Central Station Analysis 64 High-Speed Pedestrian Conveyors — A Review 64 Automated Mixed Traffic Transit Automated Mixed Traffic Vehicle Control and Scheduling Study 64 Automated Mixed Traffic Vehicle — AMTV — Technology and Safety Study 65 v ' C.* sy V bWI 'W‘1 ...f 0 a! <l'^ " *•* 'i? . .#>€< ” J - < •'rfv* , vjTi- ••• * -. • • '- .,; V. nr- . Sf ’- 1 SS * *• v • -K -«»yF * i »d>- S--P ^;sis#^ ‘ ‘ '.•• "• i ’i ! ' " "l^v. 'I* 1 ift.! J 'jy.X f’ ^lii’ -i ' ..^ ,|rv , A*‘-4 TtH'K lQw^i^< I0't g^v .-. v-» n ' . r M n« ' a #' “-r <<‘t*<i^9i'^*>M<i«V :« £5^ -/‘<\k), . ' ,/ » -utv'T^vy SfiiiiBi -^ii^ A«aiik » , ' ' ‘ 1 :w\ .<f 1 3> *fk-tu A t^Oiirx;u«\ ..'k))V :• -Av^ t * . U • _«»,- > M10VJP Rsp»4 'I r.ifJ it f ^“*'il^r->^' I, -,'f4s ..|^ti^ 'V .., * -ww: , , fiwr^;)ri*l^-ciit\o;. v^tHL i'p-- • Oi^ 5HVUH * Hi J .W. tysr^t ".r-* .. I V 1. -=-*, M, *'^iJt^g( V vf lltiJly •^^^^ilV^1M^|W*, t\ ‘I'f ' **y^f .{’, ulvfj ff.irt^n’(u" «hrt AiMii||ifei...^' v.^iHft«^ t • .' ««wn«ti SMy .y t - ’ai*. > IJh -- --; =rT 4J ^ >-M-. ,4lf‘ I SECTION I Overviews of Selected Documents of the Transit Technology Evaluation Program Strt9!TTU , TYPE OF AGT APPLICATIONS CONSIDERED BY CITY* Cities Type of Applications Considered Considered City Center Activity Centers/ AGT Circulation Regional Corridors Airports, etc. Denver X X X X Los Angeles X X X X San Diego X X X Las Vegas X X REVIEW OF LOCAL ALTERNATIVES Santa Clara X ANALYSES INVOLVING AUTOMATED Honolulu X X X GUIDEWAY TRANSIT San Francisco X X Sacramento X R.B. Lee, W. Kudlick, J.C. Falcocchio, E.J. Seattle X X X Cantilli, A. Stefaniuk; Urbitran Associates, Portland, OR X X Inc. and DeLeuw Gather & Co. Aspen, CO X X February 1978, UMTA-NY-06-0057-78-1 Detroit X X Chicago X PB 291-334, 92 pp. Twin Cities X X X X Cincinnati X X In numerous urban areas across the country, Cleveland X local government officials and metropolitan plan- Columbus, OH X X ning personnel have been considering various forms Milwaukee X Kansas City X X X of new transportation systems as a partial solution New York City X X to their urban mobility problems. Automated guide- Wash., DC X X X X way transit (AGT) is one the new transportation of Boston X systems that has been considered in over 30 U.S. Pittsburgh X X cities. The purpose of this study, as part of a broad- Baltimore X X X er effort to determine the future role of AGT Philadelphia X tems in U.S. urban areas, was to ascertain how this Norfolk, VA X alternative mode has been perceived locally and to Buffalo, NY X X Trenton, NJ X X identify problems or barriers relating to AGT imple- Hartford, CT X X mentation. The results of this study helped UMTA ’s Atlanta X Office of Technology Development and Deploy- Dallas X X X ment determine the structure of the Transit Tech- El Paso X nology Evaluation Program. Jacksonville X X Miami X X Study Approach San Antonio X X Of the hundreds of transportation planning Orlando X X X studies made in the U.S.