Personal Rapid Transit

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Personal Rapid Transit
Fort Carson Community Sustainability
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Outline

• What is PRT?
• Example Systems
• Visualization
• PRT Characteristics
• Comparison with Other Systems
• Video/Animation

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PRT Consulting, Inc.

• Planning - is PRT appropriate?
• Simulations
• Alternatives analyses (layouts systems)
• Benefit/cost analyses
• Engineering
• Station guideway design
• System operation
• Procurement
• choose the best vendor

Independent Consultant
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What is Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)?

• Direct origin to destination service
• No need to transfer or stop
• Small vehicles
• Service on demand not scheduled
• Fully automated vehicles (T-Pods)

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What is Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)?

• T-Pods may be captive to a guideway
• Small guideways elevated, at grade or
  underground
• T-Pods can use all guideways and stations on a
  fully connected network

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What is Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)?
Open Guideway (ULTra)
Captive Bogey (Postech)
Suspended (JPods)
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2getthere

• Vehicles carry 4 20 passengers
• Max. speed 25mph
• Capacity up to 2,500pphpd
• Vendor is 2getthere
• http//www.2getthere.eu
• Operating since 1997

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2getthere T-Pod capacity
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2getthere T-Pod interior
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The ULTra system
T-Pod Features

• 2,650 lb gross weight
• 4 passengers
• 25 mph
• 2KW continuous
• battery power
• www.atsltd.co.uk

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T-Pod interior
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Infrastructure features

• Elevated guideway costs similar to footbridge
• 6ft U-shaped guideway
• Capacity similar to freeway lane

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Morgantown

• In operation since 1975
• 15 second headways
• 5,000 pphpd
• Intermediate stations are bypassed
• 98.5 availability
• (Transit LOS A)

Credit John Bell
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Morgantown

• Speeds up to 30mph
• 10 maximum gradient
• Capital cost (126M) overran budget
• Operating cost 3.3M/year (1.50/passenger,
  0.94/passenger mile)
• 2 additional stations
• being planned

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Comparative Visualization Personal Rapid
TransitandConventional Transit
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Personal Rapid Transit
Conventional Transit
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Personal Rapid Transit
Conventional Transit
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Personal Rapid Transit
Conventional Transit
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Personal Rapid Transit
Conventional Transit
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Personal Rapid Transit
Conventional Transit
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PRT Characteristics
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Trip Time

• 40 of shuttle bus at Heathrow
• 67 of shuttle bus at DIA
• 45 of APM at DIA
• 15min. Time savings at Morgantown
• Results from no waiting and non-stop travel, not
  speed

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Safety and Security

• One way traffic
• Lower maximum speeds
• Separated from other traffic and pedestrians
• Crowding (a potential security vulnerability) is
  avoided
• 110 million injury-free passenger miles at
  Morgantown (regular transit would have injured
  over 100)

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Energy Use
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Operating Cost per Passenger
Source Booz Allen Hamilton
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Probable Capital Costs

• US5 15 million per one-way mile complete
• Two-way is less than double

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Comparison Study

• Compared PRT with
• Conventional Transit (Light Rail, Bus)
• Automobile
• Good
• OK
• Bad

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Comparison Study
Transit Car PRT
New technology
Trip Time
Cost per passenger
On-demand 24/7
Transfers
Seated travel
Private
Non-stop
Vehicle waits for passenger
More like a car than a bus
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Comparison Study
Transit Car PRT
ADA compliant
Safe and secure
User friendly
Snow ice
Minimal walking
Environmentally friendly
Energy efficient
Visually appealing
Operate inside buildings
First Class Transit
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