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SUMMARY:Transport that Waits for You: Planning and Operating Personal Rapi
 d Transit Systems - John Lees-Miller (University of Bristol)
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CONTACT:Neil Walton
DESCRIPTION:Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a new urban transport mode tha
 t uses small vehicles driven by computers on a dedicated network of guidew
 ays. The world's first PRT system will open at Heathrow airport this year.
  The vehicles run on-demand and non-stop from origin station to destinatio
 n station\, much like taxis. The flows of passengers between stations need
  not balance\, so some vehicles must run empty. An online algorithm must d
 ecide which vehicles to move and where to move them. This talk describes r
 ecent work on this empty vehicle management problem\, including fluid limi
 t analysis and simulation experiments. It also outlines some other interes
 ting problems that arise in the context of planning and operating PRT syst
 ems.\n\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
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