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Bay-Wise Planning TipsSteve Raney, ATS Inc. (U.S.) – ULTra PRT
• Cities21, Palo Alto• Many Bay Area opps.
ARTIC
Big vs. Small PRT• 100 mi guideway
– Transit agency & Mayor hates PRT
• N Koren: PC vs. mainframe.
PRT Applications• Niches, not line haul
– Smooth demand throughout the day helps
• Airport circulators• Office Parks / Activity
Centers• 17 in Bay Area, 35K jobs• 200m walk radius• 1K people per station• Cervero: 100% land gain• SB375: mega TOD
• PRT V2.0 required for bigger applications.
SJCRob
MeansNoelTebo
• Green transit is crucial. PRT: 100 mpg– PRT “last mile” makes LRT, bus, BART, Caltrain & ACE
more effective• PRT: extendible, flexible• SJC Commission: focus on convenience• People like to be above ground, not in a tunnel• Cutting edge transit for Capital of Silicon Valley.
APM PRT
cost $664M $189M
wait, trip, walk, transfers 10+ min 4 min
# stations 3 21
length 1.8 mi x2 12.6 mi
construction disruptive legos
lay-down large small
tunnel yes no
PRT Rectangular Grid Alignment
• Hacienda– 9,500
residents– 29,000 jobs– 1MM s.f. retail– BART– $3B+ value
• Huge mixed use transit village– Starbucks
• 200+ US major job centers.
Comprehensive, Integrated MobilityDoor to Door
Delivery services, Personal activities, Business services
first mile Train
first mile Bus
•Web/wireless coordination•Supportive policy context•Scale!
Short carpool pick up
first mileLong carpool
•Improved match-making•Shared parking, iPooling
PRT system LAST MILE mid-day trips
Walk
Bike, scooter
iPooling Centralized Cars:share, rent, ride home
Promising Results(300 surveys)
• Results for Palo Alto, Hacienda are similar
• Solo commutes: 89% 45% – Carpool: 9% 32%, train: 0% 15.5% train– For 20K people, removes 6,600 autos (roughly)
• @ 350 s.f. per space 50 acres $326M R.E. profit
• 1.32 PRT trips/day/person => 26K trips/day.
Design: people map• Connect the dots
• 1,000 people per PRT station (goal 1,000 trips)– How do you get this data?– 615, 700, 772, …, 1364, 1400, 1700.
Design: Superblocks, etc
• Ped hostility (visual boredom, fast cars)– Avoid pedestrian street crossings (Don’t have a
PRT station serve two sides of a street)
• 3 canals. 3 crossings with inexpensive prefabricated bridges (avoid a PRT station).
Design: Superblocks, etc• Focus?
– Distance to office front door?– Guideway length?– Curves / ride quality / speed?
4 Tranport Hubs•Carsharing•Bus stops
SFH crossing•Inexpensive bridge•Homeowner concerns.
“Horizontal mixed use”• Urban mixed use: convenience: “walk to a quart of
milk.” 4 story apts, retail on first floor. • HBP (great mix of uses, via auto access)
– IKEA, Best Buy, Pier 1, Barnes and Noble, Bed Bath and Beyond, Old Navy, WalMart
– Recreation: gyms, spas, creekside hiking/biking trails, city parks, and a 20-screen multiplex cinema with IMAX
– Variety of shops and restaurants at varying price points– Services: daycare, bank, copy-making, financial, real-
estate, dry cleaners, dentist, doctor, optometrist, children’s educational centers, middle school, tanning, and nail salons
• Thus, “PRT+walk” (horizonal movement) to access uses.
• HBP will in-fill w/ walkable mixed use over time.
Guideway Visual Impact• "No respondent felt that the vehicle appearance
was poor, indeed the majority thought the vehicles would look excellent. The visual appearance of the elevated structure was regarded generally as good, with 40.4% rating it excellent. It is especially noteworthy that the response to the elevated track gave a notably positive response, with no definitely negative responses and only 2.6% feeling that it could be difficult.“ (Bristol, Cardiff)
Open Guideway (ULTra)2getthereElectric battery
Captive Bogey:* Vectus – LIM guideway* Skyweb Express – 3rd rail, LIM
Suspended: Mister, JPods
30+ vendors & technologies
Rail Lift Bridge as PRT crossing• As a 65’ crossing, leaf must be raised 3X per
year to 120’ high• $11M seismic retrofit for 2009• Army Corps owns
Planning Details
• Sketch alignments with local input
• Peter Muller’s stakeholder values workshop
• Stations in buildings
• Building 15 year business model..