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Title: Proven Safety Advantages of Automated Guideway Transit Systems
Accession Number: 01557394
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: The future success of Automated Transit Systems (ATS) is highly dependent upon achieving and maintaining suitable levels of safety and reliability. The existing Automated Guideway Transit (AGTS) systems have much to offer in the way of 'lessons learned' in these areas and can serve as examples for, and provide guidance to, future systems. This manuscript examines and compares the safety performance of automated transit, light rail transit, and subway systems in the US using safety and security data included in the National Transit Database (NTD). Tallying the aggregated passenger fatalities, injuries, and incidents during the past decade, from 2002 to 2012, the authors have measured the safety performance of all three modes based on passenger miles travelled (PMT), Unlinked Passenger Trips (UPT), Vehicle Miles Travelled (VMT), and Train Revenue Miles (TRM). The results proved that AGT provides better passenger safety than LRT and subway systems.
Supplemental Notes: This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP040 Automated Transit Systems.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01550057
Report/Paper Numbers: 15-4873
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Liu, Rongfang (Rachel)Moini, Nadereh (Nady)Pagination: 24p
Publication Date: 2015
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; Photos; References
Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-4873
Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Dec 30 2014 1:37PM
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