An engineering baseline definition is given of an urban fast transit link transportation system consisting of large vehicles riding on rubber wheels beneath a flexible, cable-suspended steel guideway. Tower spacing is 1/4 mile. A driver is used. Stations are on line. Electric propulsion is used. Application to an airport is discussed. (UMTA abstract)
Baseline System Definition: The Aerial Transit System
1970
204 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Transportation , Passenger vehicles , Cable assemblies , Urban areas , Feasibility studies , Suspension devices , Operators(Personnel) , Electric propulsion , Scheduling , Model tests , Airports , Operation , Structures , Maintenance , Aerial transit system , Cable suspended transit systems , Transit fares , Engineering baseline definitions , Rapid transit systems , Guideways