Leading Edge Transportation Planning and Transportation Steve Raney, Executive Director, Cities21.or

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Leading Edge Transportation Planning and
Transportation Steve Raney, Executive Director,
Cities21.org

• Walk to Work Housing
• Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
• Group Rapid Transit (GRT)
• Digital Hitchhiking
• Oil price spike planning.

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Walk to Work Housing

• Inefficient U.S. settlement patterns
• For U.S. suburbs, we drive everywhere
• 12,000 km commute per year per person.

20 km
Job
Home
5 km
5 km
Grocery, recreation
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Walk to Work Housing

• U.S. Policy solution walk to work housing
• Apply to large, new housing developments
• Housing prioritized for short commutes
• Commute distance verified by employer / tax
  records
• Monthly 400Y tax for long commutes
• Best traffic reduction solution ever.

1 km
Job
Home
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Walk to Work Housing - Tianjin

• Government strongly influences residential
  location, but not as much as 20 years ago
• Beijing study Commute time increased by 30.
  Home ?? Job distance increased. "Transportation
  Implications of Land Development in a
  Transitional Economy Evidence from Housing
  Relocation in Beijing, China" (TRB 2006,
  06-0670)
• Tianjin government could exert stronger influence
  over car owners residential location selection
• Tax long commutes
• Comments?.

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PRT Personal Rapid Transit

• Similar to a monorail. Video, MS Campus
• No waiting, cars wait for you
• 50 km/hour
• Bypasses intermediate stations
• Non-stop
• 3 person, electric vehicles
• Automated, driverless, 24x7.

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PRT Proposed for Microsoft Campus

• See map
• 40,000 employees, 4 square km
• Train, bus, carpool ? PRT network
• Distribute bus passengers to 29 PRT stations
• 17 km elevated PRT guideway
• Cost estimate 48MM Y per km.

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4 PRT Developments

• For 2010 operation
• ULTra, Cardiff, United Kingdom
• 80 MM Y British Airport Authority investment for
  small Heathrow airport system
• Korean steelmaker Posco, 320 MM Y
• First system Uppsala, Sweden
• Korea Railroad Research Institute 240 MM Y
• Dubai has a PRT procurement.

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PRT Proposed to Guangzhou

• Proposed to Nansha Vice Mayor
• Develop as Chinese export industry
• Vice Mayor said, China will have much lower cost
  than 48 MM Y per km
• Vice Mayor said No to proposal. No good local
  application. Driverless is too advanced
• Comments?.

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GRT Group Rapid Transit

• GRT Morgantown, West Virginia
• 13 km, 5 stations, 71 23-person vehicles
• third rail, rubber tires, steer
• 2.5 BB Y (2006 )
• 30 years automated operation
• Heated guideway melts snow.

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GRT Morgantown station design
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GRT Cybertran - SF Bay Area

• Development has stalled
• 15 passengers, 12 m vehicle
• Steel wheel on steel rail
• Third rail
• Columns on railroad ballast
• Upon earthquake, realign.

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GRT

• Bishop Austrans Australia
• Under development
• 9 passenger vehicles
• Steel wheels / rail
• Third rail
• Megarail Texas
• Under development
• 16 passenger vehicles
• Rubber tires
• Third rail
• Can couple vehicles.

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GRT - Tianjin

• As feeder for metro
• Could have drivers
• Couple vehicles into trains
• Could stop at every station
• Online stations
• Simple stations
• Export industry
• Comments?.

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Digital Hitchhiking Proposal

• Leaves Microsoft campus
• Trunk 6 km, 30 minute bus, 400 workers
• Roots 2,000 cars enter trunk, pick up workers.
  High frequency
• RFID cellular..

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Oil Price Spike Planning

• Dirty bomb at Saudi oil fields
• Gas price doubles
• U.S. does not plan
• United Kingdom does plan
• Increase biking, telecommuting, transit service
• Restrict driving, reduce speed limit
• Tianjin?
• THE END