http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UrbanMaglev Discussion group and news archive for those interested in low speed maglev ("urban maglev"), quiet trains designed...
Arno Mong Daastoel
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Jul 3, 2001 7:49 pm
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Jan-Erik Nowacki, Robbert Lohmann and Arno Mong Daastoel, Thanks for the feed-back! I' ve fixed the dead links. When I will have time enough; I want to add a...
Overvest, Johan
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Jul 4, 2001 6:41 am
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Her is an article most of you will find interesting. Best wishes for the summer! Arno http://daastol.com http://innotrans.net ... From: Hudsonmi@... To:...
Arno Mong Daastoel
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Jul 6, 2001 12:06 pm
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Dear all, the simulator specs below are all contained in the specs of the simulater I have been proposing. ... But I see the simulator also as a tool to suport...
Joerg Schweizer
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Jul 6, 2001 10:58 pm
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Fine Jörg. The small group of old bankers that I take part in, are specialising on point 3: 3) To create new financial models. They are doing it from the very...
Arno Mong Daastoel
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Jul 7, 2001 3:15 pm
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Dear group! This was a very interesting article. The Society should refrain from interfering in areas where it is ineffective. The Private sector should not...
Nowacki
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Jul 11, 2001 12:49 am
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Hi Jan-Erik, A couple of weeks ago a have set up a little discussion in the Transit-Alternatives newsgroup. (List info: see ...
Overvest, Johan
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Jul 11, 2001 6:57 am
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Jan-Erik, The issue of whether public or private organisations seems to bring out all the old cliches! But I think there are some important issues that are...
Jack Cawkwell
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Jul 11, 2001 12:38 pm
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I disagree that a single PRT owner in a city would have a monopoly. The PRT system will have to compete with many other forms of transportation, cars, trucks,...
Charles Zipper
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Jul 11, 2001 8:43 pm
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Dear Jack! I think that the society should refrain normal industry - like production of guideways and vehicles. It has been proven again and again that the...
Nowacki
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Jul 11, 2001 10:27 pm
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Jan-Erik, There have been sucessful state run industries, it can be done. In the UK, the state run post office and telecoms operator (the GPO) was considered a...
Jack Cawkwell
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Jul 12, 2001 7:16 am
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Thought you might want to know that we are now 31 members (the 34 registered is due to some double entries), including a couple of Americans and Australians....
Arno Mong Daastoel
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Jul 12, 2001 9:47 am
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Hi Arno, Richard Teychenne, based in Buckinghamshire in the centre of England. I don't like the idea of being unidentified! Said tongue in cheek. A strong...
RTeychenne@...
Jul 12, 2001 10:11 am
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I agree that both private and public institutions could run infrastructure well. It all depends on the mentality within the organisation and its surroundings...
Arno Mong Daastoel
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Jul 12, 2001 10:18 am
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Yes Charles! You are right there maybe. In the beginning it will be as with the first trams and railways - they were private. In the end however it will be...
Nowacki
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Jul 12, 2001 11:51 am
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Charles, I do not think there are any easy answers to this problem, but I must disagree about giving a 20year monopoly to a private company with out some sort...
Jack Cawkwell
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Jul 13, 2001 3:34 pm
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Arno, There are big dangers here. I think changing regulations will probably not help much. What regulations could be changed to help PRT? If you mean...
Jack Cawkwell
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Jul 13, 2001 3:43 pm
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Jack, good points. However, my point is standard economic theory of public goods and utilities. It concerns the difference between national economic and...
Arno Mong Daastoel
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Jul 13, 2001 5:12 pm
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Sorry to send this to the list, but perhaps... (?) you will enjoy it.... I thoroughly pulled the pants down on the economics establishment in Norway. (Ministry...
Arno Mong Daastoel
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Jul 13, 2001 5:19 pm
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list members, I've added some pageson my dutch PRT-site: btlinks.html: a link page. (with a link to Eunitrans) btnemen.html: why ride by PRT and why not. ...
Overvest, Johan
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Jul 17, 2001 10:04 am
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Well done Arno. Is an English translation of the article available? Joff ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your...
joff lowson
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Jul 18, 2001 12:37 pm
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Dear all, I would have liked to release a first version of the simulator before going on holidays. I added constantly features: the vehicles move and can...
Joerg Schweizer
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Jul 20, 2001 2:29 am
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Thanks Joff. I'll make an English translation eventually. The funny thing is that the article pulls down the pants of ALL the VERY well paid financial analysts...
Arno Mong Daastoel
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Jul 21, 2001 12:55 pm
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Is Marcus Szillat still on this email list? I could not send him email to his university address. I heard Marcus’ thesis is a good source for PRT control...
Charles Zipper
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Jul 31, 2001 5:00 pm
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I know Marcus used to have contact with people from ULTra - think that's where he wrote his thesis for. You could try to reach him through www.atsltd.co.uk. ...
Robbert Lohmann
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Aug 1, 2001 7:14 am
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You can find the thesis at the following address: http://www.mtsprt.homestead.com/files/index.htm Palle R Jensen ... From: Robbert Lohmann <robbert@...> ...
Palle R Jensen
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Aug 1, 2001 9:37 am
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For those on this list that have read Markus’ thesis, what did you think? I am fairly new to the list, so let me know if this is an old subject, I will do...
Charles Zipper
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Aug 5, 2001 3:15 pm
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Dear list members, Back from holiday's I worked a bit on a User's guide for the simulator, which is on-line on our web-site www.MAITint.org Also, Version 0.0...
Joerg Schweizer
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Aug 15, 2001 6:14 pm
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Just a few comments on recently discussed socio-tech-onomical problems. ... I agree that there is no general answer. Building up a new transport infrastructure...
Joerg Schweizer
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Aug 15, 2001 6:39 pm
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Charles , the merge algorithm in the its simulator is using a similar strategy. The criteria for two vehicles approaching a merge point is their relative...
