Masters Theses

Abstract

"The movement of people from an origin to a destination has become a complex and sometimes severe problem, The present modes of transportation available, which include the rapid rail systems, bus transit service, and the personal automobile, have proven quite ineffective in dealing with the situation, A new concept in the transportation area is that of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT). This concept offers a promising solution to many of our people and goods movement difficulties. Before this new system can be implemented it is necessary that various design, construction, and operational criteria be evaluated to determine the optimal system to employ to meet a certain area's needs. This study was conducted to evaluate several system parameter's effects on certain system performance criteria,

The approach used to evaluate parameter effects was through a simulation model of a hypothetical rapid transit system, The model was constructed using the GPSS computer language and run on IBM 360-50 and 370-60 computers. The system parameters were varied singularly to determine their effect on the total system,

The performance criteria which were used include: vehicle utilization, average queue time of a customer waiting for a vehicle, average queue length, average trip time, and the average travel distance of the vehicles, The parameters which were modified include: vehicle speed, station storage capacity, system reliability, system breakdown repair time, arrival rates of customers, vehicle loading and unloading time, and total number of vehicles in the system.

The results of the simulation demonstrated that each parameter, when varied, produced noticeable effects on the performance measures, It is concluded that through the use of the simulation model and computer program developed, it is possible to determine the optimal system to construct for the constraints which particular localities will impose on the system"-- Abstract, pp. ii-iii

Advisor(s)

Wiebe, Henry Allen

Committee Member(s)

Waters, Robert C.
Byers, James K.

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Degree Name

M.S. in Engineering Management

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

1974

Pagination

viii, 92 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 48-49)

Rights

© 1974 James Richard Cromer, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Thesis - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Thesis Number

T 4007

Print OCLC #

5981741

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