Open AccessAutomated transit vehicle size considerations
Author(s) -
Anderson J. Edward
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of advanced transportation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.577
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2042-3195
pISSN - 0197-6729
DOI - 10.1002/atr.5670200202
Subject(s) - transit (satellite) , range (aeronautics) , transport engineering , transit system , computer science , transit time , automotive engineering , operations research , engineering , simulation , public transport , aerospace engineering
Synthesis of cost‐effective transit alternatives using automated vehicles requires consideration of a wide range of factors that are moot in determination of the optimum size of manually driven vehicles where the need to amortize driver wages dominates the economics. Discussions of many of these factors have appeared in previous papers. This article brings them together into consideration of one specific system characteristic: the optimum automated‐transit‐vehicle size.