Slide Number 1Slide Number 2Slide Number 3Slide Number 4Slide Number 5Slide Number 6Slide Number 7Slide Number 8Slide Number 9Slide Number 10Slide Number 11Slide Number 12Slide Number 13Slide Number 14Slide Number 15Orf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Enhancing Mobility Through Technology in a Congested Urban Environment Evolution of Ground Transport Technology:From the Omnibus to Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)Enhancing Mobility Through Technology in a Congested Urban Environment Evolution of Ground Transport Technology:From the Omnibus to Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)The Problem: Urban Congestion Snarls MobilityOrf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Over the years technology has evolved…Week 9From:Omnibus on Blackfriar’s Bridge, 1798To:Hummers for everyone, 2008Orf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Evolution of the OmniBus for intra-urban mass transportationWeek 9Start:London,1798Geo Enhancement: NYC, 1830Capacity Enhancement:Double Decker, LondonPropulsion Enhancement: Steam, LondonTechnology Elements:•Capacity: ~10 Seated Passengers•Propulsion: Horses or Mules•Externalities: Disease and non- operating revenue from pollution•Support: Wooden Wheel on Pavement•Headway & Lateral Control: HumanSupport Enhancement:Iron (Steel) RailsOrf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Week 8Growth of Horse-Drawn Street Railway Technology1850: NYC 1875: Minneapolis1860: London1890: Broadway NYC1908: Washington , GAOrf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Week 89Evolution of Horse-Drawn Street Railway TechnologyToday: DisneyWorldOrf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Week 9Growth of Cable Street Railway Technology1880: Washington, DC1880: Los AngelesBeginning in 1873: San Francisco1890: Kansas City1890: Chicago1882: Portland, OR1874: Hoboken1900: Pittsburgh1896: CincinnatiOrf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Elements of Cable Street Railway Technology1886: Steam Power PlantUnder the streetHoboken GripOrf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Elements of Cable Street Railway Technologyhttp://cable-car-guy.com/html/ccmain.htmlCable Car Bell Ringing ContestInteriorLet Go xingStuckGripperPushSan FranciscoOrf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9http://cable-car-guy.com/html/ccmain.htmlCable Car Bell Ringing ContestBeginning 1873: SFMore images, incline RREvolution of Cable Street Railway TechnologyOrf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Week 9Birth-Death Process of Transport TechnologyIn the beginning…In the end…“… [I]n capitalist reality…, it is not [price] competition which counts but the competition from the new commodity, the new technology…- competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms but at their foundations and their very lives.” Joseph A Shumpeter (1883-1950)Orf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Week 8Orf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Week 8Orf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Week 8Orf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Week 8Orf 467 – Transportation Systems AnalysisFall 2008/9Week
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