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Originally Posted by c_speed3108
Doesn't make stops...what happens if the guy and front of you wants out at the next station...you are pretty much stuck behind that car. (unless you want to build a virtually ridiculous array of passing tracks and switches)
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Each station has a siding, otherwise you get ridiculously long travel times.
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Originally Posted by c_speed3108
Vehicle is there waiting for you. Where the heck would it be stored? You would require a place to put tens of thousands of these things downtown in order to have that. And at that point all you really have are cars on rails. What would be the point? You might as well just buy a whole bunch of smart cars or Toyota priuses or something....it would be considerably more flexible.
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No, the vehicles are reused. Once someone is dropped off, the car goes to where it will be needed. The whole system would use about 4,000 vehicles.
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Originally Posted by c_speed3108
Sounds like a ridiculous idea to me. Plus these little train cars will take up more room per pax than the big train cars. The big trains also will require less power to operate (per pax).
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They do take up more space, but patrons will all be guaranteed seating The vehicles are run in such a way that long rows of vehicles will be unnecessary.
Actually, they will use about the same amount of energy. Big trains have to accelerate and decelerate a large mass at every stop. The Personal Automated Transit vehicles will not.
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The best way to do forward thinking on transit is to look at cities that are larger than us. Say about 50 years or so ahead of us in development. You can then see into the future and look at what types of equipment they use as well as what sorta of troubles and bottlenecks they have.
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Then you will get systems that were designed 50 years ago. It's time to move away from large box of packed patrons and on to something more humane.
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If I look to big cities...Toronto, New York, Montreal, Vancouver...etc...I see large train systems that work very well. As was pointed out a while ago by someone. Toronto started digging it's subway when they were around our size.
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Your standards are too low. We need to start attracting car drivers to transit. Public transit could be so much better for similar investments.