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Citation

Anderson JE. J. Adv. Transp. 1994; 28(1): 1-15.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Institute for Transportation, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

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Abstract

The safety of personal rapid transit systems involves careful attention to all features of the design such as the use of a hierarchy of fault-tolerant redundant control systems, bi-stable fail-safe switching, back-up power supplies, vehicle and passenger protection, and attention to the interaction of people with the system. Safety, together with reliability and adequate capacity, must be achieved while making the system economically attractive, hence techniques to achieve these goals at minimum life-cycle cost are primary in PRT design. Building on theory of safe, reliable, environmentally acceptable, and cost-effective design of PRT systems developed during the 1970's, in 1981 the author and his colleagues initiated design of a new PRT system, now called Taxi 2000. The paper describes the relevant features of Taxi 2000 and principles of safe design incorporated into it.

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