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    The document discusses personal rapid transit (PRT) capacity, which is impacted by factors like brick wall stopping criteria, maximum deceleration, and minimum headway between vehicles. Brick wall stopping criteria requires trains to stop before hitting a stationary object ahead, affecting headway. Maximum deceleration depends on factors like available friction and whether passengers are sitting or standing. Minimum headway is the time between vehicles and affects capacity, with some systems claiming 0.5 second headways but 1 second considered prudent. Occupancy, or passengers per vehicle, also impacts capacity but increasing occupancy during peaks involves ridesharing, which is difficult for large systems. Theoretical guideway capacity for PRT ranges from 1,000 to 14,000 passengers per hour depending

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    The document discusses personal rapid transit (PRT) capacity, which is impacted by factors like brick wall stopping criteria, maximum deceleration, and minimum headway between vehicles. Brick wall stopping criteria requires trains to stop before hitting a stationary object ahead, affecting headway. Maximum deceleration depends on factors like available friction and whether passengers are sitting or standing. Minimum headway is the time between vehicles and affects capacity, with some systems claiming 0.5 second headways but 1 second considered prudent. Occupancy, or passengers per vehicle, also impacts capacity but increasing occupancy during peaks involves ridesharing, which is difficult for large systems. Theoretical guideway capacity for PRT ranges from 1,000 to 14,000 passengers per hour depending

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    Personal Rapid Transit Capacity

    Sunday,January9th,2011
    Theburgeoninginterestinpersonalrapidtransit(PRT)inIndiaishighlightingtheissueofPRTcapacity.Thisisafairlycomplextopicthatwillbedealtwithfairly
    briefly here. Note: network capacity is much more complex than just the guideway capacity that is dealt with here. PRT capacity is complex because it is
    impactedbyanumberofissues:
    Brickwallstopping(BWS)criteria.ThisisarailroadsafetycriterionthatmanybelievenottobeapplicabletoPRT.BasicallyBWSrequiresthatatrainmustbeable
    tostopbeforehittingaprecedingtrainifthatprecedingtraininstantaneouslyturnsintoastationarybrickwall.InordertomeetBWSthetimebetweentrains
    (orTPodsinthecaseofPRT)mustbeadjustedbasedonspeedandthemaximumavailable,orallowable,deceleration.
    Deceleration.Themaximumdecelerationisafunctionoftheavailablefrictionandofwhetherpassengersarestandingorsitting,wearingseatbelts,etc.The
    availablefrictionordecelerationforcevarieswiththetypeofPRTsystem.PRTsystemsdrivenanddeceleratedbylinearinductionmotorsrelyontheirmotorsfor
    theirprimarybreakingforceandaretypicallyindependentoffrictionandthusweather.Themaximumbreakingdecelerationtheyapplyistypicallylessthanwhat
    isavailable.RubbertiredPRTsystems,ontheotherhand,aredependentonthefrictionbetweentheirtiresandtheridingsurfacewhichcanbedramatically
    impactedbyweather.Thesesystemswillusuallyhaveweathermitigationplansaimedatmaintainingfrictionaboveabout0.25GwhereGistheforceofgravity.
    Minimumheadway.Thisistheminimumtimebetweenvehiclesmeasuredfromthefrontofonevehicletothefrontoftheother.ForBWScriteria,itvariesfrom
    about1.4secondswith0.50Gdecelerationforceat15mphtoabout3.2secondswith0.25Gdecelerationforceat30mph.WithoutBWScriteriamanysuppliers
    claimtheywillachieveminimumheadwaysof0.5seconds.Cabintaxidemonstrated0.5secondPRTheadwaysbutneverprovedenduranceorsafetyatthese
    headways. We therefore believe it prudent to plan for minimum headways of no less than 1.0 seconds. Headway is strongly tied to capacity since reducing
    headwaybyhalftheoreticallydoublescapacity.
    Occupancy.ThisisthenumberofpassengersperTpod.Occupancyisalsostronglytiedtocapacitysincedoublingtheoccupancytheoreticallydoublescapacity.
    HoweverincreasingPRToccupancyduringpeakhoursusuallyinvolvesridesharing.Thiscanbeeasilyaccomplishedonsmallsystemswithfewstationsbutis
    difficulttoaccomplishonlargesystemswithmanystations.Imaginehowlongapassengerboundtostation57ina100stationsystemwouldhavetowaitfor
    anothertoarrivealsoboundforstation57.Ridesharingprotocolstoovercomethisproblemwillbethesubjectofafuturearticle.
    The table below provides the theoretical guideway capacity in passengers per hour based on variations in the parameters discussed above. The reasonable
    capacityofPRTguidewaysisseentorangebetweenabout1,000and14,000passengersperhour.SincePRTsystemstendtocostmuchlessthanotherfixed
    guidewaysystems,itisusuallyusefultocomparethecostsrequiredtomeetthecapacitydemand.

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