Design of personal rapid transit circulator for major activity center: Hacienda Business Park, Pleasanton, California

S Raney, J Paxson… - Transportation research …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
S Raney, J Paxson, D Maymudes
Transportation research record, 2007journals.sagepub.com
The design of a comprehensive mobility system for a suburban San Francisco, California,
East Bay Area office park exposes a number of new transit circulator implementation
challenges. Original system design perspectives are provided for many aspects. These
include horizontal mixed use and how resident out-commuters will generate more trips than
do employee in-commuters; line-haul transit capacity constraints that loom as an obstacle to
rapid spread of personal rapid transit (PRT) circulators; PRT station placement challenges …
The design of a comprehensive mobility system for a suburban San Francisco, California, East Bay Area office park exposes a number of new transit circulator implementation challenges. Original system design perspectives are provided for many aspects. These include horizontal mixed use and how resident out-commuters will generate more trips than do employee in-commuters; line-haul transit capacity constraints that loom as an obstacle to rapid spread of personal rapid transit (PRT) circulators; PRT station placement challenges with office park superblocks; design methodology to allocate PRT stations to workers and residents; and ideal office park characteristics for PRT alignments. Also considered are problems with generating too much PRT circulator ridership (solved by semi-independent loops); multimodal transit hubs at the edges of the PRT alignment; PRT alignment style choices; and the need for folding grocery carts and other solutions when the car is left at home.
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