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	Encyclopedia: Personal rapid transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Personal rapid transit (PRT) is a transport method that offers on-demand non-stop transportation between any two points on a network of specially built guideways.
		The Aramis personal rapid transit project in Paris, by aerospace giant Matra, started in 1967, spent about 500 million francs, and was cancelled when it failed its qualification trials in November 1987.
		Transit police are not required because riders are not forced to share a cabin, and criminals cannot easily predict where vehicles will go, and so cannot wait for commuters.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Personal-rapid-transit (7692 words)

	Aramis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aramis is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas.
		Aramis is quite an exception among the musketeers since his given name is mentioned twice by Dumas: he is christened René.
		Aramis loves intrigues and women, which fits well with prejudices of the time regarding Jesuits and abbots (before the French Revolution, abbots benefited the incomes of an abbey, but were not required to follow the monastery rules - which Aramis understands well).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aramis (312 words)

	Personal rapid transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Personal rapid transit (PRT) is a transport method that offers on-demand non-stop transportation between any two points on a specially built network.
		Conventional mass transit systems in low-density cities often have waits of an hour, stop every few hundred yards, and require multiple transfers, with a wait at each transfer.
		In all transit systems, vehicles are depreciated on a schedule that accounts for the average number of empty seats per vehicle.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/personal_rapid_transit (5044 words)

	Personal rapid transit: Definition and links.
		Personal rapid transit, or PRT is a form of transport that tries to combine the benefits of individual transport modes (walking, automobile) with the advantages of rail transit.
		The Aramis project in Paris, France was a large scheme, documented by Bruno Latour[?] in Aramis: or the Love of Technology.
		This (to a light-rail transit planner) "absurdly short" inter-vehicle distance raises right-of-way utilizations to very high levels, even with the smaller numbers of passengers per vehicle.
	www.encyclopedian.com /pe/Personal-rapid-transit.html (1970 words)

	Personal rapid transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		PRT "studies" use up valuable transit resources that could be used to improve working transit systems.
		Critics cite PRT studies as a stalking horse for the highway industry to direct work on transit to unproductive areas.
		"Fundamentals of Personal Rapid Transit", Irving, Bernstein and Buyan
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Personal_rapid_transit (6606 words)

	Personal rapid transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Personal rapid transit, or PRT is a transport method that offers on-demand non-stop transportation from any point on a specially built network to any other point on that network.
		In contrast, conventional mass transit systems in low-density cities often have waits of an hour or more, stop every few hundred yards, and require multiple transfers, with a wait at each transfer.
		In transit planning with the above assumptions, if PRT is built in a high density corridor, it is less efficient than trains, and in a low density corridor, it is less efficient than a bus line or automobile, especially since the capital costs of streets are already sunk.
	www.ukpedia.com /p/personal-rapid-transit.html (3272 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		The Aramis (personal rapid transit) Aramis project in Paris, by aerospace giant Matra, started in 1967, spent about 500 million francs, and was cancelled when it failed its qualification trials in November 1987.
		In Germany, the ''Cabinentaxi (personal rapid transit) Cabinentaxi'' project, a joint venture from Mannesmann Demag and MBB, created an extensive PRT development considered fully developed by the German Government and its safety authorities.
		PRT systems are proven, at least in the German Cabinentaxi (personal rapid transit) Cabinentaxi, the Ultra system at Cardiff, Wales and the system at Morgantown, West Virginia.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Personal_rapid_transit.html (8067 words)

	PART II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Transit ROW is the strip of land on which the transit vehicles operate.
		Light rail rapid transit (LRRT) or light rapid transit represents small-scale rapid transit: it consists of light rail vehicles (LRVs) operating only on ROW category A. There are very few conventional systems of this mode in operation (the Norristown line in Philadelphia and line 8 in Goteborg, Sweden, are the best known).
		Rail rapid transit represents the ultimate mode for line-haul transportation (that is, for serving a number of points along a line).
	www.bts.gov /NTL/DOCS/11877/Chapter_4.htm (8665 words)

	Aramis or the Love of Technology: 紀伊國屋書店BookWeb
		Through the accounts of several different parties involved, it looks at the project to build a guided-transportation system in Paris, plans for which were finally jettisoned in 1987.
		Aramis, the guided-transportation system intended for Paris, represented a major advance in "personal rapid transit" - a system that combined the efficiency of a subway with the flexibility of the private automobile.
		The reader is eventually led to see the project from the point of view of Aramis, and along the way gains insight into the relationship between human beings and their technological creations.
	bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp /guest/cgi-bin/booksea.cgi?ISBN=0674043227 (244 words)

	Leftist Science & Skeptical Rhetoric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the one hand, it is a revealing expose of the new and unprecedented efforts by certain members of the academic left to topple science's dominance as the pre-eminent tool of Western rationalists.
		She might very well be completely satisfied if a routing algorithm is used that guarantees a wait of at most five minutes, or one that comes within some constant factor of the best possible.
		While not as ambitious as Aramis, the West Virginia experience belies their claim that software difficulties are the main roadblock to such a system.
	www.skeptic.com /03.1.shallit-higher.html (1932 words)

	Bruno Latour: LIVRES \| BOOKS: Aramis ou l'amour des techniques
		Aramis était un texte, il a failli devenir, il est presque devenu, il aurait pu devenir, un objet, une institution, l'un des moyens de transports parisiens.
		Aramis est mort -en 1987- et ses accusateurs prétendent qu'il était inviable depuis le début, depuis 1970.
		Non, Aramis fut arrêté en 1987 et les faiseurs d'explications donnent le coup de pied de l'âne au projet en prétendant que, depuis le début, il était infaisable et qu'ils l'avaient bien dit.
	www.ensmp.fr /%7Elatour/livres/v_chap.html (11821 words)

	Amazon.de: Rezensionen English Books: Aramis, or the Love of Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In a nutshell, the French Aramis transit project proposed packet switching as a solution to human transport problems (though, so far as I can tell, neither the author nor any reviews I have yet read have made this connection).
		With the prevailing American tendency to think in terms of technological manifest destiny, stories about superior technologies failing miserably are usually glossed over in an obsession with teleology (history is an inevitable march toward greater perfection).
		Because of such stylistic excrescences, I personally I found this book somewhat difficult to read at times, but I recommend it very highly to anyone interested in the history of technology, cross-cultural studies, telecommunications -- or the burgeoning application of packet switching principles to mass transit.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books-intl-de/0674043235/reviews (478 words)

	Aramis - The Love of Technology, Bruno Latour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This French effort covered some 20 years and involved substantial public and private expenditures to develop an urban transportation technology that could be used in French cities as well as be an important export product.
		The theme of the book is "Who killed Aramis?" and it reads like a detective story.
		The lessons learned are very relevant to engineers, public officials and industrial managers who would engage in a similar effort to develop an urban transportation technology.
	www.advancedtransit.org /oldsite/aramis.htm (190 words)

	Amazon@Apolyton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Using Aramis itself as the voice of martyred technology just becomes increasingly absurd throughout the book.
		Aramis was a small car version of the driverless subway which is now commonly known because of applications in Lille (France) and Orlando (USA)
		Highly documented with texts that would be dynamite if they had been published during the development of the Aramis train system itself.
	apolyton.net /amazon/item.php?ASIN=0674043235 (449 words)

	Encyclopedia: Aramis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Mécanique Avion TRAction or Matra is a French company covering a wide range of activities mainly related to aeronautics and weaponry which today operates as the Lagardère Group.
		A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Aramis (922 words)

	Dan Schmidt's Book Diary: 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It's the study of the development and failure (it was never deployed) of Aramis, a PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) system designed in France.
		The narration is third person, rather than first person, and less overtly cryptic, though there are still plenty of mysteries and buried secrets.
		The fact that the stories are told in the first person by Bertie, with many a 'what ho' and 'pip pip', as he struggles to understand how he got into such a bind, just adds to the fun.
	www.dfan.org /books/1999.html (4562 words)

	Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms 2000 -- BOOK REVIEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Even though it represented a major step forward in personal rapid transit by combining the efficiency of a subway and the convenience and flexibility of a car, the technology and politics were decided to be too complex, so the project died officially in 1987.
		In attempting this examination, Latour recreates the journey of Aramis by providing first-person stories from all of the players involved in the development and eventual demise of the PRT--engineers, politicians, and administrators.
		In his preface, Latour explains that his purpose is to "offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural objects worthy of their attention and respect.
	www.hu.mtu.edu /~ciwic/2000/andy.htm (521 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		ATRA Members are experts in the field of advanced transit.
		It was the intent of the authors that the book be useful to experts and students of transportation and engineering, but in addition be readable by interested laymen.
		This book is focused on the relationship between technological innovation and politics, with special reference to the case of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT).
	www.advancedtransit.org /oldsite/resources.htm (631 words)

	Aramis Saint Germain
		Aramis is quite an exception among the musketeers since his given name ismentioned twice by Dumas: he is christened René.
		Aramis loves intrigues and women, which fits well with prejudices of the time regarding Jesuits and abbots (before the French Revolution, abbots benefited the incomes of an abbey, butwhere not required to follow the monastery rules - which Aramis understands well).
		The fictional Aramis is loosely based on the historical musketeer Henrid'Aramitz.
	www.altvetmed.com /face/25369-aramis-saint-germain.html (652 words)

	We're Going Where You're Going \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		People movers and modified Personal Rapid Transit systems were built in various cities in the 1970s, such as Miami, Jacksonville, and at West Virginia University.
		The dream of true Personal Rapid Transit has not yet been achieved, and its viability and economic benefits are still up for debate, but the People Mover, at least, is still hanging on.
		Singapore's mass rapid transit system, on the other hand, is a much better example.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/40934 (2472 words)

	Aramis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Aramis is quite an exception among the musketeers since his given name is told once (and only once) by Dumas : he is christened René.
		When he comes back from exile in The Vicomte de Bragelonne, he is a spanish noble and known as Duke of Alameda.
		Aramis loves intrigues and women, which fits well with prejudices of the time regarding Jesuits and abbots (before the French Revolution, abbots benefited the incomes of an abbey, but where not required to follow the monasetry rules - which Aramis understands well).
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/aramis (312 words)

	Personal transit still a techno-dream
		In recent years, there has been a lot of public discussion and debate (including a Friday guest column headlined "Lighten up on transit systems") about Personal Rapid Transit, or PRT -- particularly in Minnesota, where promoters have been trying to procure public funding for a starter project.
		The unsubstantiated claims of PRT proponents are always presented in the present tense as if the system is a success -- which, of course, it certainly is not.
		PRT bamboozles and confuses citizens and lawmakers about the real, workable, off-the-shelf transit solutions that can help communities free themselves from gridlock, pollution and dependence on foreign oil.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/237556_antiprtop.html (594 words)

	advanced transit association index page
		One of these unmet needs results from the gap between the poor quality of transit service in medium and low-density locations within urban areas and the availability of transit technology that can furnish high quality service at affordable costs.
		Descriptions of the Advanced Transit Systems research program that was conducted at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden and the Advanced Transit Group at the University of Bristol in the U.K. Here is a link to an interesting study of the visual intrusion problems posed by elevated PRT guideways, done in 1994 in Gavle, Sweden.
		A conference entitled PRT and Other Emerging Transit Systems was held in November, 1996 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
	faculty.washington.edu /jbs/itrans/atra.htm (1089 words)

	Personal rapid transit biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		PRT vehicles intentionally carry only a few passengers in order to increase ridership estimates.
		Transit police are not required because riders are not forced to share a cabin.
		PRT systems are proven, at least in the Ultra system at Cardiff, Wales and the system at Morgantown, West Virginia.
	personal-rapid-transit.biography.ms (4920 words)

	Questions and Answers
		PRT is defined as a transit system with small, fully automatic vehicles travelling on their own guideways with all the stations on the network being offline to allow ease of travel.
		Some proposals suffered from poor design or inadequate technology, others were never put into service seemingly more because of a fear of changing the status quo rather than any reasoned argument.
		There are currently a dozen or so organisations of varying sizes currently researching Personal Rapid Transit.
	www.fen.bris.ac.uk /aero/atg/answers.html (746 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Aramis or the Love of Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This quirky book tells the unusual story of an effort by the French government from 1969 to 1987 develop a robotic transit system in Paris.
		Some 500 million francs were spent in research on the system, which was proposed to take passengers to virtually any stop without going through a transfer.
		One of its ideas was that the transit car was to split in the middle, carrying passengers on one side of the car to one destination and those on the other side to another.
	amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0674043235 (1164 words)

	Taxibane - kapasitet - InnoTrans - a consultancy dedicated to innovative solutions to economic transformation and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fart, antall stopp, antall personer per vogn, vognavstand, tomkjøring, reiselengde per tur
		Generelt ble en rekke testanlegg i Tyskland, Japan og særlig i USA, bygget på svært kort tid og resulterte i teknisk suksess, med delvis unntak for Aramis i Frankrike som tidlig ble ”avsporet” i retning av mer konvensjonell teknologi.
		Samarbeid mellom Raytheon Inc. og Taxi2000 for Illinois Transit Authority.
	innotrans.daastol.com /docs/kapasitet.html (831 words)

	Aramis or the Love of Technology - Review 0674043235 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Aramis or the Love of Technology - Review 0674043235
		A guided-transportation system intended for Paris, Aramis represented a major advance in personal rapid transit: it combined the efficiency of a subway with the flexibility of an automobile.
		But in the end, its electronic couplings proved too complex and expensive, the political will failed, and the project died in 1987.
	books.bankhacker.com /Aramis+or+the+Love+of+Technology (81 words)

	Let's Get Real About Personal Rapid Transit
		Currently, there's a lot of public discussion and debate about Personal Rapid Transit, or PRT – particularly in Minneapolis, where promoters are once again trying to procure public funding for a starter project.
		The unsubstantiated claims of PRT proponents are always presented in the present tense as if the system is a proven success...
		There have been several attempts at building a PRT system over the years – Morgantown in West Virginia, ULTra and Aramis in Europe, Raytheon's Rosemont, Illinois fiasco...
	www.lightrailnow.org /features/f_prt_2005-01.htm (607 words)

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