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Bay-Wise Planning Tips Steve Raney, ATS Inc. (U.S.) – ULTra PRT

Bay-Wise Planning Tips Steve Raney, ATS Inc. (U.S.) – ULTra PRT. Cities21, Palo Alto Many Bay Area opps. Agenda. Airports Office Parks Visual impact. Big vs. Small PRT. 100 mi guideway Transit agency & Mayor hates PRT N Koren: PC vs. mainframe. ARTIC. PRT Applications.

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Bay-Wise Planning Tips Steve Raney, ATS Inc. (U.S.) – ULTra PRT

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  1. Bay-Wise Planning TipsSteve Raney, ATS Inc. (U.S.) – ULTra PRT • Cities21, Palo Alto • Many Bay Area opps.

  2. Agenda • Airports • Office Parks • Visual impact.

  3. Big vs. Small PRT 100 mi guideway Transit agency & Mayor hates PRT N Koren: PC vs. mainframe. ARTIC

  4. PRT Applications • Niches, not line haul • Smooth demand throughout the day helps • Airport circulators • Office Parks / Activity Centers • 17 in Bay Area, 35K jobs • 200m walk radius • 1K people per station • Cervero: 100% land gain • SB375: mega TOD • PRT V2.0 required for bigger applications.

  5. SJC: APM v. PRT

  6. SJCRobMeansNoelTebo • Green transit is crucial. PRT: 100 mpg • PRT “last mile” makes LRT, bus, BART, Caltrain & ACE more effective • PRT: extendible, flexible • SJC Commission: focus on convenience • People like to be above ground, not in a tunnel • Cutting edge transit for Capital of Silicon Valley.

  7. Under the road, on the berm

  8. SketchUp – tricky stn

  9. Agenda • Airports • Office Parks • Visual Impact.

  10. PRT Rectangular Grid Alignment • Hacienda • 9,500 residents • 29,000 jobs • 1MM s.f. retail • BART • $3B+ value • Huge mixed use transit village • Starbucks • 200+ US major job centers.

  11. Train first mile Walk Bike, scooter Centralized Cars: share, rent, ride home Bus iPooling first mile Short carpool pick up • Improved match-making • Shared parking, iPooling Long carpool first mile PRT system LAST MILE mid-day trips Comprehensive, Integrated MobilityDoor to Door Delivery services, Personal activities, Business services • Web/wireless coordination • Supportive policy context • Scale!

  12. Promising Results(300 surveys) • Results for Palo Alto, Hacienda are similar • Solo commutes: 89%  45% • Carpool: 9%  32%, train: 0%  15.5% train • For 20K people, removes 6,600 autos (roughly) • @ 350 s.f. per space  50 acres  $326M R.E. profit • 1.32 PRT trips/day/person => 26K trips/day.

  13. Design: people map • Connect the dots • 1,000 people per PRT station (goal 1,000 trips) • How do you get this data? • 615, 700, 772, …, 1364, 1400, 1700.

  14. Design: Superblocks, etc • Ped hostility (visual boredom, fast cars) • Avoid pedestrian street crossings (Don’t have a PRT station serve two sides of a street) • 3 canals. 3 crossings with inexpensive prefabricated bridges (avoid a PRT station).

  15. HBPSingle Family Homes

  16. Design: Superblocks, etc • Focus? • Distance to office front door? • Guideway length? • Curves / ride quality / speed?

  17. 4 Tranport Hubs • Carsharing • Bus stops • SFH crossing • Inexpensive bridge • Homeowner concerns.

  18. 3 PRT loops • Semi-independent for higher capacity

  19. “Horizontal mixed use” • Urban mixed use: convenience: “walk to a quart of milk.” 4 story apts, retail on first floor. • HBP (great mix of uses, via auto access) • IKEA, Best Buy, Pier 1, Barnes and Noble, Bed Bath and Beyond, Old Navy, WalMart • Recreation: gyms, spas, creekside hiking/biking trails, city parks, and a 20-screen multiplex cinema with IMAX • Variety of shops and restaurants at varying price points • Services: daycare, bank, copy-making, financial, real-estate, dry cleaners, dentist, doctor, optometrist, children’s educational centers, middle school, tanning, and nail salons • Thus, “PRT+walk” (horizonal movement) to access uses. • HBP will in-fill w/ walkable mixed use over time.

  20. PRT Grocery Shopping? • Hook N Go:

  21. Agenda • Airports • Office Parks • Visual Impact.

  22. Guideway Visual Impact • "No respondent felt that the vehicle appearance was poor, indeed the majority thought the vehicles would look excellent. The visual appearance of the elevated structure was regarded generally as good, with 40.4% rating it excellent. It is especially noteworthy that the response to the elevated track gave a notably positive response, with no definitely negative responses and only 2.6% feeling that it could be difficult.“ (Bristol, Cardiff)

  23. Cut & Cover w/ Glass

  24. THE END

  25. 30+ vendors & technologies Open Guideway (ULTra) 2getthere Electric battery Captive Bogey: * Vectus – LIM guideway * Skyweb Express – 3rd rail, LIM • Suspended: Mister, JPods

  26. Transit Alternate B Personal Rapid Transit

  27. Rail Lift Bridge as PRT crossing • As a 65’ crossing, leaf must be raised 3X per year to 120’ high • $11M seismic retrofit for 2009 • Army Corps owns

  28. Planning Details • Sketch alignments with local input • Peter Muller’s stakeholder values workshop • Stations in buildings • Building 15 year business model..

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