Test installation of new transit system concept called "Transit Expressway" nearing completion in South Park, Allegheny County near Pittsburgh, Pa; system concept, design philosophy, project objectives, and features of vehicle, structural, communication and control, and power-distribution design are explained; system features rubber-tired vehicles with electric propulsion and automotive-type running gear; trains, whose consist (number of cars) may be varied to meet changing demand, are assembled by mechanical transfer devices and are operated under precise head-way, speed, and acceleration control from wayside.
Transit expressway medium-density mass transit system
ASME -- Paper
ASME Meeting RR-5 ; 1965
1965
8 pages
Conference paper
English
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