Several times the past days, Discovery Channel has shown a documentary on the planned and immensely huge Pyramid in the Tokyo Bay, in the series "Extreme...
Regarding the cost of guideways and stations: With the present labour costs it is not economical to produce welded steel in the western countries. Since I...
It is not economical to produce anything in the western countries, which can consume only. Therefore everything is being produced in China. It's a joke. But...
http://www.sptimesrussia.com/archive/times/848/news/b_8824.htm Sergey Prokhorenko ... Yahoo! Personals - New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited...
Thanks a lot for VERY interesting comments on a VERY critical cost factor for PRT. I will put all my comments to David, Tad, Sergey and Jerry into this one...
I offer to estimate unbiassedly the following facts about aluminum, steel and magnesium (I do not guarantee the correctness of use of English terms): 1....
Sergey, After an extensive study of the economics of PRT (over 5 years and spending several hundreds of hours on a complex spreadsheet with 18 scenarios and a ...
Arno Mong Daastoel <arno@...> wrote: Sergey, After an extensive study of the economics of PRT (over 5 years and spending several hundreds of hours on a...
Sergey, I forgot 2 important results 1. Trip distance is of considerable importance and grows severely in importance with increasing traffic. 2 . Empty vehicle...
... Both of these items depend heavily on the to/from numbers included in the forecasted origin-destination (demand) table. If there are only a few large ...
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... What about reinforced concrete? Other factors to consider: The stiffness to weight ratio of steel, aluminium, magnesium and concrete is about the same, so...
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Arno ... Could your analysis be extended to include the MAIT concept? With regard to the vehicle costs, at stopping points the cabin is unloaded, liberating ...
Mr J C Greenwood
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I think that these are not problems of PRT developers, but problems of city authorities: · City authorities should build compact cities with high enough...
Perfect body shape for single seated type of PRT vehicle. http://www.aerorider.com/ . PRT vehicles of single seated type will be about 80 % of all park of PRT...
http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/content.html Sergey Prokhorenko ... Yahoo! Personals - New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time!...
FYI. 62 billions euros over 3 years. This is not much per capita but it certainly helps and the reasoning behind it is dead right: Use this as a a locomotive...
This was very interesting! However I wonder if this leaves any possibilities to reserach around PRT and GRT - has anyone checked that? Wondered Jan-Erik...
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- is "light rail on a stick". This is also how I see monorail, even the slimmer types like Intamin. The essence of automation has not been grasped, which turns...
James, as I may have written before: I am very much impressed by the reasoning of the Commission and the Italian government who initiated this. They are indeed...
Hello Arno, What is novelty and basic difference of this project (62 billions euros over 3 years) from European program EUREKA? May be, we do not use the...
Dear John, ... Yes, I can't see any difference in principle. The point is that the guideway has a higher durability, a longer life time and need less...
I agree Sergey. Good points. However, a PRT developer as most transport developers usually come to a pre-set game and have to make the best out of it. For...
Sergey, I wrote 'downwriting', not 'underwriting'. ... (graph) My point is that investment costs deceive. Long term costs is more important from some points of...
Hello Arno, Did not hear from you for a long time. I don't know the word "downwriting". I couldn't find it in the dictionary. I think that capital costs are...
Dear Kirston, Thank you for a very interesting letter. I am sorry for the long delay in replying. Your experience closely parallels mine, both concerning your...
