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[edit] Dead Link
link to Electric-Bikes.com leads tn 'oops we are sorry' page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.43.76 (talk) 21:56, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for spotting that. I'll fix it to what i think it was meant to link to. Simply south (talk) 16:43, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Heathrow location
If someone wants to take photos or create a map of the Heathrow system, this sketch shows where it will be. -- SEWilco (talk) 17:03, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
- There are very recent photos online at ATS's website Heathrow / Test Track Progress. Germet (talk) 19:44, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
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- I uploaded a picture taken from an airplane on Feb 19 but OTRS is still pending. Germet (talk) 20:59, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] New load/unload stalls
I've noticed that the Heathrow system will use parking lot style, one-way, angled stalls for loading and unloading passengers instead of the previously more common all-in-a-line style loading and unloading. In almost all previous PRT designs, the cars enter the station on a continuous siding and passengers unload near the entrance point of siding and load on the side of the station where the siding exits the station. With this new design, not only are the stations offline, the passenger load/unload stalls are further offline. Intuitively, it seems to increase capacity by allowing slower passengers avoid interfering with faster passengers. But it also seems to slightly complicate the command and control functions. Has anyone read about this change?
By the way, I noticed that Google Earth now has a great shot of the Cardiff test facility with the new loading stall design: ULTra Cardiff (I hope) --JJLatWiki (talk) 18:10, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
- The offline stations are an excellent idea for the travel use, due to baggage handling complications. Of course the offline stations do slightly complicate the command and control, but should need very slight changes to the zone reservation code (zone blocking has been mentioned in descriptions, and solution is trivial when each stall and the station spur have their own zones). A little more complex might be changes to the vehicle's movement programming (such as automated backing out of a stall), but that's obviously been done because they've been testing it. Incidentally, that's a Google Maps link and not Google Earth. -- SEWilco (talk) 19:37, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
