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Apr 26, 2012
A New Direction for the Developmental Scenario of the Mega-APM Systems
Publication: Automated People Movers 2005: Moving to Mainstream
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Automobiles-road systems are the only form of personal transportation that provide door to door transportation and they travel on a giant network. Considering the steady advance of high speed data communication technologies, robotics, and maglev, etc, future APM systems will be able to not only serve a market consisting of a limited number of lines; by placing greater emphasis on mutual links with road transportation, they will be able to serve a network of new huge markets on a so-called nationwide scale or a worldwide scale that will include giant networks as large as the interstate highways. Insufficient study has been carried out to answer two questions. What are the barriers to the development of this vast potential market? And what is the best direction to go to create a scenario for the development of such a giant market. This report describes research conducted to identify the above barriers and study policies for overcoming them and to study new directions of the development scenario for the so-called Mega-APM system that will permit access to a giant market in the 21st century by examining and comparing basic functions and basic sub-systems of various kinds of transportation.
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Research Center for Advanced Information Technology, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Asahi 1, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305-0804, Japan. E-mail: [email protected]
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