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The ideas of this document are intellectual property of its author(s), Jörg Schweizer and John Greenwood. Any reproduction, as a whole or in parts, is permitted as long as this copyright notice remains intact and unchanged on each copy. Any commercialization using these ideas may be allowed only in agreement with the author(s).

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... jerk^1.1

Jerk is defined as the time derivative of acceleration.

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... size^1.2

Following E. Anderson [6] and considering only the factors: vehicle cost, guideway cost, energy consumption and average occupancy then the optimum vehicle size is for one person only. If the vehicle is larger, then the solution is from his point of view sub-optimum, but it is more social and has a broader application field which would lead to a higher usage and finally to lower costs

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... terminal^1.3

It may turn out that people prefer not to program any destination before, to start with the default destination and to program their trip inside the cabin, after starting the trip

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... vehicle^1.4

The ``empty vehicle detection'' could be realized with weight sensors, which are also necessary to prevent overload

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