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Put the Intelligence in the System, Not in the Vehicles
Technical Paper
1999-01-2953
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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A unique system would solve traffic, fossil-fuel depletion, and environmental problems. Dual-mode private and commercial vehicles would be manually driven on streets and automatically controlled on maglev guideways. Busses and freight vehicles without wheels or drivers also used. Proposed guideway speeds: 100kph in cities, and 325kph between cities. System would be safer and have much higher capacity than existing highways or proposed “smart car” systems. One-third meter clearance between cars to be achieved by linear synchronous-motor propulsion. Capacity of single 100kph guideway to equal that of twelve highway lanes, and one 325kph guideway would be equivalent to forty highway lanes.
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Reynolds, F., "Put the Intelligence in the System, Not in the Vehicles," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-2953, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-2953.Also In
Intelligent Transportation Systems (Its): Research and Applications
Number: SP-1467; Published: 1999-08-17
Number: SP-1467; Published: 1999-08-17