Interim Assessment of the VAL Automated Guideway Transit System

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• Creators:
  Anagnostopoulos, George
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Automated guideway transit
  • Personal rapid transit
  • Automatic control
  • Advanced vehicle control systems
  • Rapid transit
  • Subways
  • Railroad stations
  • Speed control
  • Crash avoidance systems
  • Electric power
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-TSC-UMTA-81-34 ; UMTA-MA-06-0069-81-3
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1526689
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  France
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Abstract:
  This report describes an interim assessment of the VAL (Vehicules Automatiques Legers or Light Automated Vehicle) AGT system which is currently under construction in Lille, France, and which is to become fully operational in December 1983. This report contains a technical description and performance data resulting from a demonstration test program performed concurrently in August 1980. VAL is the first driverless AGT urban system application in France. The system operates at grade, elevated, and in tunnels on an exclusive concrete dual-lane guideway that is 12.7 kilometers long. The configuration of the system is a push-pull loop operating between 17 on-line stations. The system is designed to provide scheduled operation at 60-second headways and a normal one-way capacity of 7440 passengers per hour per direction with 55 percent of the passengers seated. Two pneumatic-tired vehicles are coupled into a single vehicle capable of carrying 124 passengers at line speeds of 60 km/hr. During the course of the demonstration test program, VAL demonstrated that it could achieve high levels of dependability and availability and could perform safely under all perceivable conditions.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10270/dot_10270_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 13.57 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Autonomous Vehicles ; Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
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