The MAIT introductory tour

• Contents
• Motivation
  • Capacity problems
  • Social problems
  • Environmental problems
  • Costs
  • Evolution or Revolution ?
  • The new transportion paradigms
• Modular Automated Individual Transport
  • The idea of MAIT
  • The concept of MAIT
  • MAIT consists of 3 modular groups
  • What can be transported ?
  • From where to where ?
  • At what time ?
  • How does the transport happen ?
  • What makes a transport system a MAIT system ?
• Carrier-Track technologies
  • Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
  • Automated Guided Vehicle Systems (AGVS)
  • Future Carrier Technologies
• How to use MAIT ?
• Advantages and benefits
  • Performance gains
  • Social benefits
  • MAIT is environmentally friendly
  • Added value
• Modular versus monolithic System
  • Relative advantages of the modular system
  • Flexible solutions for a transient phase
  • Problems with the modular approach
• Bibliography