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ATRA envisions a
future when trans-
portation will all be
orchestrated for the
convenience of people
and their businesses
– as well as for the
benefit of our planet.
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Smart Campus Mobility Seminar - August 2008
Seminar Topics
The August 2008 Smart Campus Mobility Seminar included several case studies that illustrate the problems and opportunities for implanting a PRT network into existing or planned urban contexts.
One focused on the serious planning that has already taken place in Daventry, U.K., a town of 23,000 expected to grow to 40,000 in the next several years. ATRA member Malcolm Buchanan has led detail transport analysis, comparing PRT to buses and finding a helpful fit due to the Radburn-style street layout there, in which neither residential nor commercial buildings face onto arterials. Australian consultants Sinclair Knight Merz has taken a comprehensive look. There is growing support for PRT innovation among local elected officials and the public.
Another study examined Abu Dhabi’s Masdar design for a carbon-neutral district aligned with the urban form of traditional desert towns. Aga Khan Trustee Nader Ardalan will present an informed overview of the developmental hyper-growth along the Persian Gulf and explore ways to make development environmentally sustainable and culturally appropriate.
Strategies for a doubling of population anticipated for the historic Spanish city of Cuenca were described by Larry Fabian, who recently was part of a study team organized by the International Society of City & Regional Planners (Isocarp). Major growth is expected due to high-speed rail service that will be in place, reducing travel time to Madrid from 100 to 40 minutes. How do growth and historic and cultural factors influence urban form and the prospects for smart mobility?
Finally, Harvard’s medical school stands apart from its Cambridge campus, some 4km away amid dozens of hospitals and other bio-life facilities in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area. Its congestion is chronic amid transit and parking shortfalls, and a PRT circulator could be an effective answer. Can elevated guideways be acceptable in the city that has spent $20 billion to get rid of ugly overhead transit and highway infrastructure over that last two decades?
Main Presentations
Nader Ardalan (PDF) -
Developing Masdar City: Aligning Reality with Vision, 38 slides
Richard Crappsley (PDF) -
Daventry and Other UK Examples, 25 slides
Larry Fabian (PDF) -
Smart Urban Mobility: State of the APM Industry, 7 slides
David Maymudes (PDF) -
PRT at Microsoft, 16 slides
Shannon McDonald (PDF) -
Strategic Parking Design and Connection with Other Modes, 28 slides
Team-1 (PDF) -
The Elements of PRT Design, 18 slides
Team-2 (PDF) -
Integrating PRT into Communities, 13 slides
Armando Carbonell-1 (PDF) -
Smart Growth and Global Warming, 52 slides
Part A (13 slides) -
Part B (13 slides) -
Part C (13 slides) -
Part D (13 slides)
Other Handouts and Materials
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