Automated Transit: Planning, Operation, and Applications (Hardcover)

A comprehensive discussion of automated transit

This book analyzes the successful implementations of automated transit in various international locations, such as Paris, Toronto, London, and Kuala Lumpur, and investigates the apparent lack of automated transit applications in the urban environment in the United States.

The book begins with a brief definition of automated transit and its historical development. After a thorough description of the technical specifications, the author highlights a few applications from each sub-group of the automated transit spectrum. International case studies display various technologies and their applications, and identify vital factors that affect each system and performance evaluations of existing applications. The book then discusses the planning and operation of automated transit applications at both macro and micro levels. Finally, the book covers a number of less successful concepts, as well as the lessons learned, allowing readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the topic.

Key features:

• Provides a thorough examination of automated transit applications, their impact and implications for society
• Written by the committee chair for the Automated Transit Systems Transportation, Research Board
• Offers essential information on planning, costs, and applications of automated transit systems
• Covers driverless metros, automated LRT, group and personal rapid transit,  a review of worldwide applications
• Includes capacity and safety guidelines, as well as vehicles, propulsion, and communication and control systems

This book is essential reading for engineers, researchers, scientists, college or graduate students who work in transportation planning, engineering, operation and management fields.

《自動化運輸的全面討論》

本書分析了自動化運輸在巴黎、多倫多、倫敦和吉隆坡等國際地點的成功應用，並探討了美國城市環境中明顯缺乏自動化運輸應用的原因。

本書首先簡要定義了自動化運輸及其歷史發展。在詳細描述技術規格之後，作者突出了自動化運輸光譜中每個子組的幾個應用案例。國際案例研究展示了各種技術及其應用，並確定了影響每個系統和現有應用性能評估的重要因素。本書還討論了宏觀和微觀層面上自動化運輸應用的規劃和運營。最後，本書涵蓋了一些較不成功的概念，以及從中獲得的教訓，讓讀者全面了解該主題。

主要特點：

- 全面檢視自動化運輸應用及其對社會的影響和意義
- 由自動化運輸系統交通研究委員會主席撰寫
- 提供有關自動化運輸系統的規劃、成本和應用的重要信息
- 包括無人駕駛地鐵、自動化輕軌、集體和個人快速運輸等全球應用的評論
- 包括容量和安全指南，以及車輛、推進、通信和控制系統

本書是工程師、研究人員、科學家、交通規劃、工程、運營和管理領域的大學或研究生學生的必讀之書。