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	Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit project is an experimental people-mover created in that West Virginia college town by the U.S. Department of Transportation in the 1970s.
		It is a sister project of San Francisco, California's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).
		The Morgantown PRT was built in the mid 1970’s and many of its peculiarities are thought to be the result of the management program (apparently the program’s director was changed several times during the construction with the expected bureaucratic nightmare).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Transit (698 words)

	Morgantown, West Virginia: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Morgantown is a city located in Monongalia County, West Virginia (Monongalia County, West Virginia: more facts about this subject) on the banks of the Monongahela River (Monongahela River: A river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River).
		Morgantown has a personal rapid transit (personal rapid transit: personal rapid transit (prt) is a transport method that offers on-demand non-stop...
		Morgantown's age distribution, which is heavily influenced by the presence of West Virginia University, is: 11.1% under the age of 18, 44.7% from 18 to 24, 20.4% from 25 to 44, 13.5% from 45 to 64, and 10.4% who are 65 years of age or older.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/morgantown_west_virginia (654 words)

	Personal rapid transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Personal rapid transit (PRT) is a category of proposed public transport modes designed to offer automated on-demand non-stop transportation between any two points on a network of specially built guideways.
		The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit project has been in continuous operation at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia since 1975, with about 15,000 riders per day (as of 2003).
		As with many current transit systems, passenger safety concerns are likely to be addressed through CCTV monitoring, and communication with a central command center from which engineering or other assistance may be dispatched.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Personal_rapid_transit (4133 words)

	Articles - Morgantown, West Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Morgantown is home to West Virginia University which constitues 913 acres (3.7 kmÂ²) of the city and vicinity, and with the fall 2005 enrollment added an additional population of 26,051 students from every state, the District of Columbia, and 89 other nations.
		Morgantown is the county seat of Monongalia County.
		Morgantown was settled in 1772 by Zaquill Morgan.
	www.bronzebass.com /articles/Morgantown,_West_Virginia (997 words)

	Personal rapid transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Developers aim to provide service more convenient than a car, yet with the social advantages of rail transit and trip costs of sending each person somewhere between a moped and bicycle i.e.
		When operated in an intermodal transit network, PRT does not fully realize the travel time reductions advanced by proponents, because connections to other mass-transit modes are only possible when the other vehicle arrives.
		In transit planning with standard ratios, 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.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Personal_rapid_transit.html (4855 words)

	Personal Rapid Transit - Cyberspace Dream Keeps Colliding With Reality
		Personal Rapid Transit, or PRT, has once again emerged from obscurity to be asserted as an alternative to standard rail transit projects in various cities, such as Cincinnati, Austin, Minneapolis, Duluth, San Jose, and Santa Cruz.
		A transit concept from the 1960s, envisioning tiny automated electric automobile-like vehicles speeding throughout urban neighborhoods on elevated guideways, Personal Rapid Transit has fallen on its face and seemingly died several times, only to be repeatedly resuscitated by its adherents.
		Personal Rapid Transit concept requires dense penetration of neighborhoods and commercial areas with a labyrinth of elevated guideways and stations.
	www.lightrailnow.org /facts/fa_prt001.htm (6176 words)

	Morgantown GRT Infopage
		The Morgantown GRT system has been described as the "best kept transit system secret" in the U.S. It connects various spatially separated parts of the campus of West Virginia University, located in Morgantown.
		The terrain in Morgantown is quite hilly and walking and bicycling are difficult as is auto travel.
		Six photos of the Morgantown GRT (system overview map and several stations), are available.
	faculty.washington.edu /~jbs/itrans/morg.htm (489 words)

	MPR: Personal rapid transit spending draws fire at Capitol
		A personal rapid transit vehicle at the Taxi 2000 facility in Fridley.
		PRT has been successfully used in Morgantown, W.V., a college town that uses personal rapid transit vehicles to shuttle people between three campuses.
		And while no Minnesota city is demanding personal rapid transit, supporters in Minneapolis and Duluth think the two cities would be good demonstration projects.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2004/04/26_mccalluml_prt (812 words)

	Stray Current Corrosion in Electrified Rail Systems:Transit Operator Interviews
		A total of seven transit agencies were selected for interview with regard to stray-current corrosion control, stray-current corrosion costs, and present and future technical needs to control stray current and the corrosion that it may cause.
		The Metro-North electrified transit system is powered by two different types of traction power system: 69 miles of the system are powered by a 11,000 volt AC, and 82 miles are powered by a 600 volt DC traction applied to a positive third rail, with the running rails acting as the negative return circuit.
		The PRT system is an automated guideway transit system which provides personal rapid transit between the two separated campuses of the University of West Virginia and the business district in Morgantown, West Virginia.
	www.iti.northwestern.edu /projects/stray2_int.html (4765 words)

	Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) vs. Morgantown GRT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Opponents (specifically LRT manufacturer) drag Morgantown into their discussion, again seeming to hope to convince the reader that a system contracted 34 years ago is the best we can do now.
		The Morgantown contract was let in December 1970 with the stipulation that the system be operational 22 months later - in October 1972 in time to reelect President Nixon.
		The effect of the Morgantown project on Congress was to cause them to lose interest in the PRT concept, and this held back PRT development for at least 15 years.
	www.electric-bikes.com /prt-morg.htm (739 words)

	Personal Rapid Transit ( (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Due to frequent stops and starts, about two thirds of the operating energy used by today's transit vehicles in an urban area is kinetic energy lost in heat as the vehicle is braked to a stop.
		Many rail transit systems are placed underground because a ground-level system requires destruction of too much existing property and an elevated system is too massive and noisy.
		Transit types include "train", which is standard heavy rail, and "e-train" which is electrified rail.
	www.electric-bikes.com /prt.htm (4938 words)

	Personal rapid transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		PRT has been reinvented many times because it optimizes standard transit planning math.
		Since PRT systems are designed to be safer than automobiles, widespread use of them could prevent the death and maiming of thousands of people per year just in North America.
		Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) or Personal Automated Transport (PAT) Quicklinks
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/p/pe/personal_rapid_transit.html (4993 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Personal Rapid Transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Morgantown has the extremes of environment to test the system, from warm summers to winters with extreme cold.
		Also it takes forever just to get business/home owners/planning depts to agree on regular transit use with committees.....can you imagine the amount of time it would take to get the regulatory plans to pass which assumes everyone around the line and stations agree to it which is between zero and nil.
		Performance is stated to be a minimum headway of 1/2 second, maximum capacity of 7,200 vehicles per hour, average capacity of 6,000 vph, maximum passenger capacity of 18,000 persons per hour and average capacity of 9,000 persons per hour (at an average occupancy of 1.5 persons per vehicle).
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=116375&page=3 (4729 words)

	Stray Current Corrosion in Electrified Rail Systems
		Furthermore, transit agency operators do not know, other than by visual or mechanical inspection, where and how much stray-current corrosion is occurring on their system.
		Mitigation of stray-current corrosion on transit systems, however, is commonly performed by reacting to an immediate problem, rather than taking a pro-active viewpoint to the problem.
		Strong emphasis was placed on discussions with a sample of transit operators to determine the magnitude of the problem and the costs associated with it, to quantify their knowledge and experience with stray-current corrosion, and to determine if operators believe the problem needs further study.
	www.iti.northwestern.edu /projects/stray2.html (998 words)

	Personal rapid transit: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Personal rapid transit (PRT) is a transport (An exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes)
		The UniModal (Unimodal or skytran is a proposal by douglas malewicki for a 160km/h (100mph) personal rapid transit...)
		Transit police are not required because riders are not forced to share a cabin, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/personal_rapid_transit (10650 words)

	ES&T Online News: Taking the mass out of transit
		Even if public transit systems use state-of-the-art, less-polluting trains, trolleys, light rails, and buses, the people-moving principles hark back to Victorian times.
		The closest thing to PRT is operating at West Virginia University in Morgantown, but the vehicles each carry too many passengers for this to be considered a true PRT system.
		Transit officials debate statistics that show that newer cars and current rail systems have the same energy efficiency.
	pubs.acs.org /subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2004/dec/tech/rp_transit.html (1078 words)

	Federal Transit Administration - Appendix A Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the request of Union County, New Jersey, and the City of Elizabeth, NJ TRANSIT is preparing a Supplemental DEIS to analyze the effects of an alignment modification on the segment contained within the City of Elizabeth.
		In 1995, Union County, along with New Jersey TRANSIT (NJ TRANSIT), initiated a study to determine the potential for establishing a new train station and for fostering development in the Townley section of the Township of Union, New Jersey.
		The Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is working with the Port of Oakland and the City of Oakland on a proposed 3.2-mile transit link between the Oakland Coliseum BART station and the Oakland International Airport.
	www.fta.dot.gov /grant_programs/transportation_planning/major_investment/annual_reports/2004/10275_10534_ENG_HTML.htm (6160 words)

	Personal Rapid Transit Is Totally Bogus. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Life & Events > Personal Rapid Transit Is Totally Bogus.
		PRT or Personal Rapid Transit is a pathetic waste of time.
		Arguing with PRT proponents is pointless because no large-scale PRT system exists (sorry, Morgantown is disowned by Taxi 2000 as a line-haul system).
	transportationgeek.blogster.com /personal_rapid_transit.html (195 words)

	PRT- Personal Rapid Transit
		Personal Rapid Transit, or PRT, is an inexpensive mass transit technology that borrows the best features of the automobile (on-demand, non-stop travel, from anywhere TO anywhere), but glides above traffic like a monorail.
		PRT guideways would be spaced at ½-mile intervals; small stations with 1 or more berths would be located off-line (meaning PRT pods pull off the route to board/unboard passengers, out of the way of other pods) every ½-mile.
		Personal Rapid Transit is inherently more energy-sustainable, or "greener," than automobiles and conventional transit.
	kinetic.seattle.wa.us /~prt.html (1439 words)

	Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system is one of five automated urban "people mover" systems that have been built in the United States since the late 1970s.
		West Virginia University, and connects the university's Evansdale and Downtown Campuses with downtown Morgantown.
		The section from Walnut St. (downtown Morgantown) to the Engineering station opened in 1975; the rest of the line opened in 1979.
	web.presby.edu /~jtbell/transit/Morgantown (746 words)

	Resume
		Personal project highlights included the identification of system commissioning issues and the corrective action leading to a successful Phase I system opening.
		Personal project highlights included surpassing the performance of the original technology and completing fabrication and construction contracts on schedule.
		Sullivan has been active in the automated transit industry since 1972 and has been successful in the development of solutions to highly technical, procedural and code-related problems typical of automated people movers.
	www.smartskyways.com /corporate/management/resumes/DonSullivan.html (1367 words)

	tBlog -
		Learn more about "Personal Rapid Transit" at the PRT is a Joke web site.
		Gadgetbahn or "advanced transit" as it's followers call it are wacky transportation concepts that are supposed to be "faster, cheaper, better" than conventional transit.
		Although it calls itself "transit", PRT is not supported by traditional transit groups such as Transit for Livable Communities and the Sierra Club Northstar (both organizations have resolutions opposing public funding of PRT projects).
	prtskeptic.tblog.com /archive/2005/06 (5576 words)

	Your own personal monorail? \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Proponents say that PRT could change the face of mass transit in the world's cities within a few decades by combining the convenience of a taxi with the automated, traffic-free flow of a subway system.
		His administration spearheaded a model project in Morgantown, W. Va., but what politicians ended up with was a sort of automated bus system, with huge cost overruns, that continues to serve Morgantown but tainted PRT for nearly 20 years.
		These systems appeal to people who already use, or would like to use, public transit, because they won't have to wait for vehicles and there won't be stops, says Tom Miler, president of the nonprofit group Citizens for PRT in Minneapolis.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0401/p17s01-stct.html (1149 words)

	Car Ports (Personal Rapid Transit)
		What really makes PRT different from mass transit is that it combines the convenience and luxury of a taxi with the efficiency of subway and bus travel: Rather than packing into a large carriage with a hundred smelly strangers, with PRT you get a private car.
		It announced the arrival of personal aircraft as being feasible because of the parachute system that have been developed for light aircraft.
		The Morgantown system failed not because it was a PRT or GRT, but because it was totally unreliable.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1346875/posts (1603 words)

	TRB Annual Meeting Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although ASVT is a theoretical concept, a system deployed at the Morgantown campus of West Virginia University exhibits many properties of ASVT.
		The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit system was built in the 1970s as a federal demonstration project.
		A delegation of representatives from Manhattan, KSU, KDOT, FTA, and FHWA toured the system at Morgantown and met with university and community officials to discuss the various impacts that the Morgantown system has had on the university and community.
	gulliver.trb.org /am/ip/paper_detail.asp?paperid=5205&p=yes&h= (209 words)

	Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit, PRT
		Because it is essentially a "line haul system", Morgantown is really an AGT, Automated Group Transport like the familiar "people movers" you may have ridden in an airport.
		However, the Morgantown PRT has a lot of problems, which is why it was never adopted elswhere.
		Fortunately, the outside force acting upon me was the soft and squishy back of the person in front of me. The people sitting in the front had the less pleasant experience of having their faces acted upon at 40 mph by the front plexiglass window.
	www.roadkillbill.com /PRT-Morgantown.html (1013 words)

	Federal Transit Administration - Report on Funding Levels and Allocations of Funds for Transit Major Capital ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		West Virginia University requested assistance to fund the upgrade of the computer control system on the Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit (MPRT), which serves its Morgantown campus.
		While the project is more appropriately a fixed guideway modernization project rather than a New Start project, Morgantown is a rural area and thus not eligible for these formula funds.
		It is not anticipated that Morgantown will specifically request additional Section 5309 New Start funds in the future.
	www.fta.dot.gov /grant_programs/transportation_planning/major_investment/annual_reports/2003/17304_17449_ENG_HTML.htm (351 words)

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