Cities21 Library

• Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design: Hacienda Business Park. Transportation Research Record #2006 (TRB 1/07). Published as part of U.S. EPA's “Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages” study. Co-authors: James Paxson, David Maymudes. PDF paper - 4.4MB.
• Bay Area Business Park Catalog. Catalog of commute patterns for 17 major job centers with 594,000 employees.  Published as part of U.S. EPA's “Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages” study, 1/26/07. http://www.cities21.org/BABPC/
• Paid Automated Smart Parking Design for a Large Office Park. ITS World Congress, 11/8/05.  paper (MS Word).
• Efficient Suburbs of the Future. Engineers for a Sustainable World Conference, 10/5/05, Austin, TX. HTML paper.
• Network Transit for Edina, MN. Association for Commuter Transportation TMA Summit, Minneapolis, 5/16/05. 10MB Word doc: paper (MS Word)
• PRT for Microsoft and Bellevue, Cascadia Center's Breaking Gridlock with Technology Conference, 2/24/05, Seattle. Paper: paper (MS Word). Co-author: Jerry Schneider. 
• Digital Hitchhiking, Cascadia Center's Breaking Gridlock with Technology Conference, 2/24/05, Seattle. paper (MS Word).
• Application of New Technology Product Research to New Suburban Commute System Design and Validation, Transportation Research Record #1927 (TRB 1/05), (Silver Bullet methodology paper). PDF paper
• Morgantown People Mover - Updated Description, TRB 1/05. 1.7MB PDF paper. Co-author: Stan Young. 
• Suburban Silver Bullet: PRT Shuttle and Wireless Commute Assistant with Cellular Location Tracking, Transportation Research Record #1872 (TRB 1/04), Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board,  TRB, National Research Council, Washington, DC, Number 1872, December 2004, pp. 62-70. PDF paper.  
• UC Berkeley Transportation Planning Masters Thesis: Sustainable Suburb Silver Bullet: PRT Shuttle + New Mobility Halves Solo Commutes, Steve Raney. 9/03. Link.
• Privacy-Protecting Commute Shed Study. CommuteShed_TRB_111502.doc, TRB 1/03, A new methodology for collecting fine-grained employee commute origination data from employers in major employment centers. Complies with European Parliament Privacy Directive 95/46/EC.
• Small-Suburb PRT Ballot Initiatives (Emeryville, CA), Steve Raney. TRB 1/03, PDF Paper.
• 2787 Park Boulevard, A 76 Unit Affordable Palo Alto TOD in a Job-Rich Area, Affordable Housing Site Analysis prepared for Palo Alto Housing Corporation. 3.6MB MS Word . 6/02.

papers by other Cities21 members

• TRB 1/04, Bright Transit Futures: Reflections on Automated People Mover Conference in Singapore, Jeral Poskey.
• TRB 1/03, TIFs, BIDs, and PRT: Applicability of Tax Increment Financing or Business Improvement Districts to Building Personal Rapid Transit. Jeral Poskey. Link
• International Conference on Environment and Sustainability 9/01, Building a Case for a New Transportation System, Mary Bell Austin.  Mary Bell's writings on PRT and other green technologies can be found at: http://www.mbaustin.squarespace.com/can-you-really-do-that/2006/3/22/prt-dreams-to-live-by.html. 
• TRB 1996, O PRT, PRT! : wherefore art thou, PRT?, Thomas M. Richert.
• Transportation Research Record #1496, Cost/revenue analysis for Mission Valley transit development, Thomas M. Richert and John Glander. July 1995.
• Sixth Automated People Movers Conference, 1997, Advanced transit and prosperity, Thomas M. Richert.