An engineering baseline definition is given of an urban transportation circulation and distribution system consisting of small vehicles riding on rubber tires atop a concrete roadbed. Guidance and switching are by road-side guide-follower controls linked to vehicle steering mechanism. Stations are off-line. Electric propulsion is used. (UMTA abstract)
Alden Capsule Transit System Control Subsystem and Baseline Definition
1970
295 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Road Transportation , Transportation , Passenger vehicles , Urban areas , Systems engineering , Experimental design , Electric propulsion , Pavements , Tires , Control systems , Programming(Computers) , Feasibility studies , Communication systems , Alden capsule transit system , Engineering baseline definitions , Guideways , Mass transit systems , Automatic control equipment
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