7 Cases Flashcards
Transrapid: the case of munich
economic efficiency
- similar inverment cost as a traditional trains
- low energy consumption
- low maintenance costs
Comfort
- high speed
- no seatbelts
- no jolting
Maintenance
- low maintenance
- less retracted from service
- several components take each other function (no problme is one fails)
trip times:
- really fast
- good accelleration
Transrapid: environment
Energy consumption: less energy consumption but same output
Noise emissions: mainly the noise of winds
Land use: less space needed than any other transportation system
Magnetic fields: low magnetic fields
Turbulence: minimal turbulence – aerodynamic optimization
opposition in munich: arguments
Economic, ecologic and politically inacceptable project
Financing & budget not clear
Just for wealthy business travelers …
why did the transrapid concept fail in the case of Munich as an airport train between munich city and munich airport?
Ecological
- May be no market
- May be not profitable
Social
- Most of the people doesn’t live next to the train station (fast speed train cannot do many stops)
- Good for tourists!hotel are in the center
- but there are no benefits for locals
Environmental
:)
Underestimating the costs, the power of demography
Abu dhabi: characteristics
They do a master plan as a proactive (not as a reaction)
- they decided to invest in an underground (they don’t have one yet)
- they are going to build trams
- roads and regional high speed rail development
- water taxis
ABU DHABI: what challances do you expect with such a development in such a limited amount of time?
Complexity of the system
HR problem (for construction and to run the system)
Electricity supply
Logistic
Political issue
ABU DHABI: what are the impoact of this innovatiom transport development with respect to sustanablity?
Economic
- More revenues
- Economic costs of traffic jam (efficiency improvement)
Environment
- Less emission
Zagreb:
Problems
Increasing individual transportation!traffic roads, pollution and noise
Quality & capacity of tram and bus transportation. City railway system don’t meet standards & cannot compete with individual transport
Jam ! average tram speed 14 km/h
Motors vehicle uses same lanes as trams
Inadequate tram network
General urban development plan of Zagreb (GUP)
- Optimal usage of nonrenewable resources
- avoiding negative environamental effect
- development of city network
- contibution to the evelopment of socially itegrated communicates
- promotion of cost-effective public service
- encourage use of Public transport, bicycles of on food
- archieture of a high quality, suitable to the size and context of the area
General urban development of Zegreb (GUP): measures
Construction lightweight railway
City and commuter railway modernized (modern railway stops..)
Bus network will be extended
Construction of car park for personal vehicles
Bicycle road network will be extended and parking spots sorted
New bridges
The cargo railway traffic will be excluded from the central city area
Zagreb: How they engourage public transport?
Free monthly fare for person over 65 and unemployed
Low ticket prices for school and university students
Yearly fare for the price of 10 month fare for employed
Zagreb: what measures are needed to make the consumption of transport more sustanable?
- more public transportation
- less private transport
- more parking
- better instrastructure
- improved timetable
