Draft With Appendices Relating to the Morgantown Project

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Urban Mass Transit Administration.
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Personal rapid transit
  • People movers
  • Innovations
  • Construction cost
  • construction
  • Rapid transit
  • Traffic Peaks
  • Urban environment
  • UMTA capital grant
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1527248
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  West Virginia ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Abstract:
  The purpose of the Morgantown PRT project is to develop and demonstrate a new concept of transportation. With the Morgantown Project, UMTA has taken a bold step forward not only in utilizing new technology for transit but by implementing a full-scale system to demonstrate operational and economic feasibility, something which is not being done anywhere else. The goal is to make this new system eligible for UMTA capital grants program throughout the nation and to make the design available to all qualified parties on a noni proprietary basis. The PRT concept requires innovative features such as small cars, short headways (intervals between cars), off-line station, automatic controls (computers), automatic merging and de-merging, fast acting switching capability and dedicated guideways, in order to be a viable transportation system.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/36302/dot_36302_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.74 MB]
• Collection(s):
  FTA 50th Anniversary Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:40033319b2c45b5d3bf222723e6dfdfb16b35c75bb6c7cbd946f8c35daa65d64