NTL Record

Title Extended System Operations Studies for Automated Guideway Transit Systems
Record ID 48806
Personal Name
Creator
Boldig, J.D.; Thompson, J.T.
Source 61p. in various pagings
Corporate Creator General Motors Corporation
Corporate
Contributor
John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.); United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Publisher United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Publication Date 19820201
Language English
Abstract The objectives of the System Operations Studies (SOS) of the Automated Guideway Transit Technology (AGTT) program was to develop models for the analysis of system operations, to evaluate AGT system performance and cost, and to establish guidelines for the design and operation of AGT systems. This final report summarizes and documents the work accomplished by General Motors and the Transportation Systems Center in the fulfillment of the Extended System Operations Studies contract. The three main areas covered in this report are: (1) the development of a set of analysis procedures that are supported by the computer models developed during the SOS project; (2) the software changes made to the Discrete Event Simulation Model (DESM) to expand and improve its capability to model guideway transit systems; and (3) the validation of the ability of the DESM to accurately model vehicle merges and the generality of modeling custom designed dispatching algorithm. Also included in this report is a description of three system level models and their possible application to the analysis of conventional transit
Rosap ID dot:10298
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10298
TRT Terms Passenger transportation; Transportation operations; Automated guideway transit; Rapid transit; Simulation; Algorithms; Costs; Design; Systems analysis; Performance evaluations; Dispatching; Operations research; Software; Failure
General Subjects Design criteria; Transportation management
Classification NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION;
NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Transit Safety and Security;
NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Transit Economics and Finances;
NTL - ECONOMICS AND FINANCE - ECONOMICS AND FINANCE;
NTL - ECONOMICS AND FINANCE - Transit Economics and Finance;
NTL - SAFETY AND SECURITY - Vehicle Design;
NTL - SAFETY AND SECURITY - Transit Safety and Security
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
00365066
Contract Number DOT-MA-06-0048
Report Number DOT-TSC-UMTA-81-67; UMTA-MA-06-0048-8112
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/48000/48800/48806/DOT-TSC-UMTA-81-67.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository