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Bay-Wise Planning Tips
Steve Raney, ATS Inc. (U.S.) – ULTra PRT
• Cities21, Palo Alto
• Many Bay Area opps.
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Agenda
• Airports
• Office Parks
• Visual impact.
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• 100 mi guideway
Big vs. Small PRT
– Transit agency & Mayor hates
PRT
• N Koren: PC vs. mainframe.
ARTIC
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PRT Applications
• Niches, not line haul
– Smooth demand
throughout the day helps
• Airport circulators
• Office Parks / Activity
Centers
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17 in Bay Area, 35K jobs
200m walk radius
1K people per station
Cervero: 100% land gain
SB375: mega TOD
• PRT V2.0 required for
bigger applications.
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SJC: APM v. PRT
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SJC
Rob
Means
Noel
Tebo
APM
PRT
cost
$664M
$189M
wait, trip, walk, transfers
10+ min
4 min
3
21
length
1.8 mi x2
12.6 mi
construction
disruptive
legos
large
small
yes
no
# stations
lay-down
tunnel
• Green transit is crucial. PRT: 100 mpg
– PRT “last mile” makes LRT, bus, BART, Caltrain & ACE
more effective
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PRT: extendible, flexible
SJC Commission: focus on convenience
People like to be above ground, not in a tunnel
Cutting edge transit for Capital of Silicon Valley.
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Under the road, on the berm
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SketchUp – tricky stn
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Agenda
• Airports
• Office Parks
• Visual Impact.
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PRT Rectangular
Grid Alignment
• Hacienda
– 9,500
residents
– 29,000 jobs
– 1MM s.f. retail
– BART
– $3B+ value
• Huge mixed
use transit
village
– Starbucks
• 200+ US major
job centers.
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Comprehensive, Integrated Mobility
Door to Door
Train
first mile
Walk
Centralized Cars:
first mile
Bus
share, rent, ride home
Delivery services,
Personal activities,
Business services
•Web/wireless coordination
•Supportive policy context
•Scale!
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Bike, scooter
iPooling
Short carpool pick up
•Improved match-making
•Shared parking, iPooling
Long carpool
PRT system
LAST MILE
mid-day trips
first mile
Promising Results
(300 surveys)
• Results for Palo Alto, Hacienda are similar
• Solo commutes: 89%  45%
– Carpool: 9%  32%, train: 0%  15.5% train
– For 20K people, removes 6,600 autos (roughly)
• @ 350 s.f. per space  50 acres  $326M R.E. profit
• 1.32 PRT trips/day/person => 26K trips/day.
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Design: people map
• Connect the dots
• 1,000 people per PRT station (goal 1,000 trips)
– How do you get this data?
– 615, 700, 772, …, 1364, 1400, 1700.
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Design: Superblocks, etc
• Ped hostility (visual boredom, fast cars)
– Avoid pedestrian street crossings (Don’t have a
PRT station serve two sides of a street)
• 3 canals. 3 crossings with inexpensive
prefabricated bridges (avoid a PRT station).
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HBP
Single
Family
Homes
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Design: Superblocks, etc
• Focus?
– Distance to office front door?
– Guideway length?
– Curves / ride quality / speed?
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4 Tranport Hubs
•Carsharing
•Bus stops
SFH crossing
•Inexpensive bridge
•Homeowner concerns.
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3 PRT loops
• Semi-independent
for higher capacity
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“Horizontal mixed use”
• Urban mixed use: convenience: “walk to a quart of
milk.” 4 story apts, retail on first floor.
• HBP (great mix of uses, via auto access)
– IKEA, Best Buy, Pier 1, Barnes and Noble, Bed Bath and
Beyond, Old Navy, WalMart
– Recreation: gyms, spas, creekside hiking/biking trails, city
parks, and a 20-screen multiplex cinema with IMAX
– Variety of shops and restaurants at varying price points
– Services: daycare, bank, copy-making, financial, realestate, dry cleaners, dentist, doctor, optometrist, children’s
educational centers, middle school, tanning, and nail salons
• Thus, “PRT+walk” (horizonal movement) to access
uses.
• HBP will in-fill w/ walkable mixed use over time.
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PRT Grocery Shopping?
• Hook N Go:
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Agenda
• Airports
• Office Parks
• Visual Impact.
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Guideway Visual Impact
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"No respondent felt that the vehicle appearance
was poor, indeed the majority thought the vehicles
would look excellent. The visual appearance of the
elevated structure was regarded generally as good,
with 40.4% rating it excellent. It is especially
noteworthy that the response to the elevated track
gave a notably positive response, with no definitely
negative responses and only 2.6% feeling that it
could be difficult.“ (Bristol, Cardiff)
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Cut & Cover w/ Glass
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THE END
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30+ vendors & technologies
Open Guideway (ULTra)
2getthere
Electric battery
Captive Bogey:
* Vectus – LIM guideway
* Skyweb Express – 3rd rail, LIM
Suspended: Mister, JPods
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Transit Alternate B
Personal Rapid Transit
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Rail Lift Bridge as PRT crossing
• As a 65’ crossing, leaf must be raised 3X per
year to 120’ high
• $11M seismic retrofit for 2009
• Army Corps owns
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Planning Details
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Sketch alignments with local input
Peter Muller’s stakeholder values workshop
Stations in buildings
Building 15 year business model..
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