People Mover 4


People Mover 4 :

History: (3) Other Developments: The term 'people mover' was used byWalt Disney, when he and hisImagineerswere working on the new 1967TomorrowlandatDisneyland. The name was used as a working title for a new attraction, thePeopleMover. According to ImagineerBob Gurr, "the name got stuck," and it was no longer a working title. Starting in the late 1960s and into the 1970s, people movers were the topic of intense development around the world. Worried about the growing congestion and pollution in downtown areas due to the spread of cars, many countries started studying mass transit systems that would lower capital costs to the point where any city could afford to deploy them. Most of these systems used elevated guideways, which were much less expensive to deploy than underground tunnels. However, elevating the track causes problems with noise, so traditional steel-wheel-on-rail solutions were rare as they squealed when rounding bends in the rails. Rubber tired solutions were common, but some systems usedhovercrafttechniques or variousmagnetic levitationsystems. Two major government funded APM projects are notable. In Germany,Mannesmann DemagandMesserschmitt-Bölkow-Blohmdeveloped a system known asCabinentaxiduring the 1970s. Cabinetaxi featured small cars with from four to eight seats that were called to pick up passengers on-demand and drove directly to their destination. The stations were "offline", allowing the cabs to stop by moving off the main lines while other cars continued to their destinations

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