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Tuesday, 28 September 2010 15:16 |
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A meeting was held recently at the Princeton Library community room to discuss transit proposals for the New Jersey Municipality
Among them was a PRT presentation given by Dr Ed Anderson. It seems Ed's presentation "generated lots of buzz"
”I think Dr. Anderson surprised a lot of people with how advanced the plans are for PRT technology,” said Arch Davis, the former chair of the traffic and transportation committee. “I was surprised at how advanced the technology is and how many places it’s going in the world. The country needs development and investment in ideas like this to advance society as a whole for alternative energy and transportation solutions.”
Dr. Chip Crider, also gave an excellent presentation arguing that PRT should replace the current transit train service called "The Dinky". In the conversation afterwards, it was clear that there are a number of supporters of PRT in Princeton
Read the whole article here
At the same time, Dr Anderson was busy meeting with the members of the team making up the Newark Metropolitan Planning Organisation. He also gave a presentation to Professor Alain L. Kornhuauser’s transportation planning class at Princeton University. In the early 1970s Kornhauser, was a member of the Task Force on New Concepts in Urban Transportation at the University of Minnesota. |
