bay-wise planning tips steve raney, ats inc. (u.s.) – ultra prt

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Bay-Wise Planning TipsSteve Raney, ATS Inc. (U.S.) – ULTra PRT

• Cities21, Palo Alto• Many Bay Area opps.

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Agenda

• Airports• Office Parks• Visual impact.

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ARTIC

Big vs. Small PRT• 100 mi guideway

– Transit agency & Mayor hates PRT

• N Koren: PC vs. mainframe.

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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.

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SJC: APM v. PRT

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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 PRTcost $664M $189Mwait, trip, walk, transfers 10+ min 4 min# stations 3 21length 1.8 mi x2 12.6 miconstruction disruptive legoslay-down large smalltunnel yes no

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Under the road, on the berm

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SketchUp – tricky stn

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Agenda• Airports

• Office Parks• Visual Impact.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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).

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HBPSingle Family Homes

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Design: Superblocks, etc• Focus?

– Distance to office front door?– Guideway length?– Curves / ride quality / speed?

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4 Tranport Hubs•Carsharing•Bus stops

SFH crossing•Inexpensive bridge•Homeowner concerns.

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3 PRT loops• Semi-independent

for higher capacity

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“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.

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PRT Grocery Shopping?• Hook N Go:

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Agenda• Airports• Office Parks

• Visual Impact.

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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)

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Cut & Cover w/ Glass

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THE END

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Open Guideway (ULTra)2getthereElectric battery

Captive Bogey:* Vectus – LIM guideway* Skyweb Express – 3rd rail, LIM

Suspended: Mister, JPods

30+ vendors & technologies

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Transit Alternate BPersonal Rapid Transit

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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

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Planning Details• Sketch alignments with local input• Peter Muller’s stakeholder values workshop• Stations in buildings• Building 15 year business model..