personal rapid transit: 1978 aerospace corp.
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Uploaded by sktavdr on Sep 3, 2008
"The 1/10th scale model facility consisted of an oval guideway that measured 45' by 14' with a single siding and electromagnetic switches. Three scaled PRT vehicles (1' long), containing double-sided pulsed d.c. linear motors and an on-board control system were successfully operated on the guideway simultaneously. The guideway was sized to permit the demonstration of constant speed operation, slot slipping and slot-advancing maneuvers, merging, switching and emergency stopping. The nominal operating velocity for the scaled vehicles was 3 feet/second, representing a full-scale velocity of 30 feet/second. All of the key propulsion subsystem elements, such as the guideway magnets, motor primary shape and dimensions, and primary slot configuration and size were scaled to 1/10th full size."
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This video brings back memories. My father used to be an Aerospace Corporation employee, and showed me some of this stuff back when this video was made.
There was an audio track, but it was about as boring as you can imagine with a monotone narrator, as this was a proposal to the city & county of Los Angeles for a transit system. Interesting idea, but ultimately proved to be unworkable.
There is some interesting history to this proposal.
Viresmon 3 years ago
There are some videos on YouTube of Vectus, which is very similar. We have yet to see whether or not the idea is workable.
sktavdr 3 years ago