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.


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    Title :

    Transit expressway medium-density mass transit system


    Additional title:

    ASME -- Paper


    Contributors:
    Walker, W.J. (author) / Howell, J.K. (author)

    Conference:

    ASME Meeting RR-5 ; 1965



    Publication date :

    1965


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    Transit expressway -- New mass-transit system

    Walker, W.J. / Howell, J.K. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1965


    Transit expressway

    Prytula, G. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1968


    Transit expressway

    Kerr, Jr., C. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1963