Systems approach to modern urban transportation based on experience gained in San Francisco Bay Area; coordination of service involving unification of operating components is relatively simple using modern computer techniques; electronic controls are major factor in providing economic solution to problem; importance of electric automobile; technical advances in batteries and variable frequency motor drives give promise that high performance electric propulsion for vehicles is not far away; unified utility type of mass transit service offers best alternative to private automobile for urban use; market potential for electronics in urban transit.


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    Title :

    Innovations for future mass transportation


    Additional title:

    WESCON Tech Papers


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Wescon Technical Papers ; 10 , n 16.4, Part 6


    Publication date :

    1966


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Book


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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