The report presents research completed on optimum (minimum cost) design of PRT vehicle guideway systems; analysis of periodic motions of PRT vehicles over straight flexible guideways; and continued investigations of vehicle motions over curved elastic guideways. These three areas represent essential ingredients of a mathematical study of the performance of candidate vehicle/guideway designs. The dynamics of PRT vehicles over flexible curved guideways have been investigated with the primary objective being to establish a computationally efficient method for studying this problem. A computer algorithm has been developed and tested in order to optimize its computational efficiency. The algorithm will be used to construct a test track which is made up of straight-transition-curved-transition-straight guideway segments. Candidate vehicle/guideway designs determined by the optimization algorithm will then be proof tested on this curved track in order to verify the fidelity of the system design.


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    Title :

    Dynamic Interactions and Optimal Design of PRT Vehicles on Elevated Guideways


    Contributors:
    P. W. Likins (author) / R. B. Nelson (author) / D. L. Mingori (author)

    Publication date :

    1976


    Size :

    80 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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