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Preface
Modular Automated Individual Transport
General specifications and system architecture
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Preface
Motivation and purpose of this document
Target audience and document organization
General specifications
General characteristics
Increase in life quality
Social aspects
Environmental aspects
Aesthetic aspects
Economical viability
Other aspects
Preliminary conclusions
Economical design constraints
Aims and strategies
The morphogenetical strategy
The substitutional strategy
General adoption process of the new TS
performance specific factors
adopter specific properties
external factors
User specific properties and relative advantages
Type 1: The irrational car buyer
Type 2: The rational car buyer
Type 3: The person in the household without car
Type 4: minors
Type 5: The elderly
Type 6: impaired persons
Type 7: other public transport users
Type 8: professional users
Diffusion strategies
Operator specific properties and relative advantages
network providers
transport provider
service provider
System manufacturer's specific properties and relative advantages
General design philosophy
Safety, comfort and security
Safety and comfort
nominal operation
emergency operation
Security and psychology
Vehicles
Standard passenger vehicle
standard freight vehicle
Infrastructure
infrastructure for local door-to-door and in-door transit
infrastructure for inter-regional and inter-urban transit
infrastructure for inter-city and inter-national transit
Stops
passenger stops
freight stops
Operation
The user-management
Services
Orders
Travel options
User terminals: the user's access point
Terms and general philosophy of vehicle operation
Spontaneous travel
Booked travel
Spontaneous freight transport
Booked freight transport
Bibliography
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2004-07-22
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