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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. Walk to Work Housing. Inefficient U.S. settlement patterns - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 1
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.
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 2
Walk to Work Housing• Inefficient U.S. settlement patterns
• For U.S. suburbs, we drive everywhere– 12,000 km commute per year per person.
Home Job
Grocery, recreation
20 km
5 km5 km
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 3
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.
Home Job1 km
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 4
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?.
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 5
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.
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 6
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 7
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.
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 8
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.
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 9
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?.
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 10
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.
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 11
GRT – Morgantown: station design
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 12
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.
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 13
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.
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 14
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?.
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 15
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..
steve_raney@cities21.org, slide 16
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
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