10-21-2018, 01:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-21-2018, 01:57 PM by danbrotherston.)
(10-21-2018, 12:35 PM)Canard Wrote: The idea is you can have smaller “everything” and just run trains closer together from the start to make up for it. VAL does this the most elegantly, with 60-second headways. It’s pure magic to watch. This was also the key design ideology behind ICTS (Scarborough RT*, Vancouver SkyTrain) - run small trains as fast and as close together as you can.
* - This never quite happened in Scarborough for a myriad of reasons, most notably the failure of the vehicles to successfully navigate a previously-built superstructure with too tight of a radius, necessitating a total rethink of the functional design of a terminus station meaning train lengths had to be doubled and headways halved - but that’s another story!
That sounds like a rather interesting story, not part of the history I know (my understanding was simply that apparently the trains have drivers despite being capable of autonomous operation). Do you have a link?