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Are you aware of what is destined to be one of the great transit solutions of the 21st Century?
THE REAL SOLUTION to UNACCEPTABLE WORLDWIDE URBAN TRANSPORTATION CONGESTION and RESULTING UNSUSTAINABLE COSTS
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The Intelligent Transportation Network System (ITNS) is a totally new form of public transportation designed to provide a high level of service safely and reliably over an urban area of any extent in all reasonable weather conditions without the need for a driver’s license, and in a way that minimizes cost, energy use, material use, land use, and noise. Being electrically operated it does not emit carbon dioxide or any other air pollutant.
This remarkable set of attributes is achieved by operating vehicles automatically on a network of minimum weight, minimum size exclusive guideways, by stopping only at off-line stations, and by using light-weight, sub-compact-auto-sized vehicles.
With these physical characteristics and in-vehicle switching ITNS is much more closely comparable to an expressway on which automated automobiles would operate than to conventional buses or trains with their on-line stopping and large vehicles. We now call this new system ITNS rather than High-Capacity Personal Rapid Transit, which is a designation coined over 35 years ago.
Read the complete article Intelligent Transportation Network Systems (ITNS) |
Dr J E Anderson1
Advocates for improving urban transportation can be divided into the following six groups:
1. Advocates of conventional rail systems. For example, organizations of people dedicated to bringing the streetcar back.
2. Advocates for conventional bus or rail systems because nothing else is proven and there is no visible mechanism for proving better systems. This includes many public officials who have become convinced both that transit is needed and that they should work to obtain federal grants to build it.
3. Advocates of a network of small guideways on which small automated vehicles operate exclusively on the guideways, i.e. the vehicles are captive to the guideway. Optimally designed, such a system is expected to have much lower cost per mile and much higher attractiveness to riders than conventional rail. Such a system has been called personal rapid transit or PRT.
4. Advocates of an automated network of guideways that can accept street vehicles, i.e., a dual-mode system. http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/ includes a series of papers on dual mode.
5. Advocates of automated highways such as tested near San Diego during the 1990’s.
6. Advocates of an automobile-only society.
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