Personal Rapid Transit: A Selection of Papers on a Promising New Mode of Public TransportationJ. Edward Anderson |
Contents
The Success of the Auto Should be a Lesson to | 1 |
Programmed Module Urban Transport Systems | 8 |
An Incremental Evolutionary Development of Personal | 29 |
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