Modular Automated Individual Transport



General specifications and system architecture ¹

• 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