Bay-Wise Planning Tips Steve Raney, ATS Inc. (U. S. ) – ULTra PRT • Cities 21, Palo Alto • Many Bay Area opps. steve@ultraprt. com
Agenda • Airports • Office Parks • Visual impact. steve@ultraprt. com
Big vs. Small PRT • 100 mi guideway – Transit agency & Mayor hates PRT • N Koren: PC vs. mainframe. ARTIC steve@ultraprt. com
PRT Applications • Niches, not line haul – Smooth demand throughout the day helps • Airport circulators • Office Parks / Activity Centers • • • 17 in Bay Area, 35 K jobs 200 m walk radius 1 K people per station Cervero: 100% land gain SB 375: mega TOD • PRT V 2. 0 required for bigger applications. steve@ultraprt. com
SJC: APM v. PRT steve@ultraprt. com
SJC PRT cost $664 M $189 M wait, trip, walk, transfers 10+ min 4 min 3 21 length 1. 8 mi x 2 12. 6 mi construction Rob Means Noel Tebo APM disruptive legos large small yes no # stations lay-down tunnel • Green transit is crucial. PRT: 100 mpg – PRT “last mile” makes LRT, bus, BART, Caltrain & ACE more effective • • PRT: extendible, flexible SJC Commission: focus on convenience People like to be above ground, not in a tunnel Cutting edge transit for Capital of Silicon Valley. steve@ultraprt. com
Under the road, on the berm steve@ultraprt. com
Sketch. Up – tricky stn steve@ultraprt. com
Agenda • Airports • Office Parks • Visual Impact. steve@ultraprt. com
Rectangular Grid Alignment • Hacienda – 9, 500 residents – 29, 000 jobs – 1 MM s. f. retail – BART – $3 B+ value • Huge mixed use transit village – Starbucks • 200+ US major job steve@ultraprt. com
Comprehensive, Integrated Mobility Door to Door Train first mile Walk Centralized Cars: first mile Bus • Web/wireless coordination • Supportive policy context • Scale! share, rent, ride home Delivery services, Personal activities, Business PRT system services LAST MILE mid-day trips steve@ultraprt. com Bike, scooter i. Pooling pick Short carpool up • Improved matchmaking • Shared parking, Long carpool i. Pooling first mile
Promising Results (300 surveys) • Results for Palo Alto, Hacienda are similar • Solo commutes: 89% 45% – Carpool: 9% 32%, train: 0% 15. 5% train – For 20 K people, removes 6, 600 autos (roughly) • @ 350 s. f. per space 50 acres $326 M R. E. profit • 1. 32 PRT trips/day/person => 26 K trips/day. steve@ultraprt. com
Design: people map • Connect the dots • 1, 000 people per PRT station (goal 1, 000 trips) – How do you get this data? – 615, 700, 772, …, 1364, 1400, 1700. steve@ultraprt. com
Design: Superblocks, etc • Ped hostility (visual boredom, fast cars) – Avoid pedestrian street crossings (Don’t have a PRT station serve two sides of a street) • 3 canals. 3 crossings with inexpensive prefabricated bridges (avoid a PRT station). steve@ultraprt. com
HBP Single Family Homes steve@ultraprt. com
Design: Superblocks, etc • Focus? – Distance to office front door? – Guideway length? – Curves / ride quality / speed? steve@ultraprt. com
4 Tranport Hubs • Carsharing • Bus stops SFH crossing • Inexpensive bridge • Homeowner concerns. steve@ultraprt. com
3 PRT loops • Semiindependent for higher capacity steve@ultraprt. com
“Horizontal mixed use” • Urban mixed use: convenience: “walk to a quart of milk. ” 4 story apts, retail on first floor. • HBP (great mix of uses, via auto access) – IKEA, Best Buy, Pier 1, Barnes and Noble, Bed Bath and Beyond, Old Navy, Wal. Mart – Recreation: gyms, spas, creekside hiking/biking trails, city parks, and a 20 -screen multiplex cinema with IMAX – Variety of shops and restaurants at varying price points – Services: daycare, bank, copy-making, financial, realestate, dry cleaners, dentist, doctor, optometrist, children’s educational centers, middle school, tanning, and nail salons • Thus, “PRT+walk” (horizonal movement) to access uses. • HBP will in-fill w/ walkable mixed use over time. steve@ultraprt. com
PRT Grocery Shopping? • Hook N Go: steve@ultraprt. com
Agenda • Airports • Office Parks • Visual Impact. steve@ultraprt. com
Guideway Visual Impact • "No respondent felt that the vehicle appearance was poor, indeed the majority thought the vehicles would look excellent. The visual appearance of the elevated structure was regarded generally as good, with 40. 4% rating it excellent. It is especially noteworthy that the response to the elevated track gave a notably positive response, with no definitely negative responses and only 2. 6% feeling that it could be difficult. “ (Bristol, Cardiff) steve@ultraprt. com
Cut & Cover w/ Glass steve@ultraprt. com
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30+ vendors & technologies Open Guideway (ULTra) 2 getthere Electric battery Captive Bogey: * Vectus – LIM guideway * Skyweb Express – 3 rd rail, LIM Suspended: Mister, JPods steve@ultraprt. com
Transit Alternate B Personal Rapid Transit steve@ultraprt. com
Rail Lift Bridge as PRT crossing • As a 65’ crossing, leaf must be raised 3 X per year to 120’ high • $11 M seismic retrofit for 2009 • Army Corps owns steve@ultraprt. com
Planning Details • • Sketch alignments with local input Peter Muller’s stakeholder values workshop Stations in buildings Building 15 year business model. . steve@ultraprt. com
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