Methodology for the Vertical Transfer of PRT Vehicles for Realization of Minimum Headway Time

초록

The Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system has been recently highlighted in future transportation developments due to its possibility as an eco-friendly transport solution to provide demand-responsive mobility services. The representative feature of PRT system is to serve high accessibility to the destination at the similar level of services with a private car. In this study, the innovative concept for continuous vertical transfer of the PRT vehicle was proposed for enhanced efficiency in high accessibility and better compatibility with other transportation modes. Most importantly, the operational feasibility of this concept is experimentally validated by the small-scale demonstration using the 1/10-scale prototype.