Automated Transit Networks









Automated Transit Networks

are a type of regional, automated guideway transit system. The term, automated guideway transit, is generally used only to describe systems serving relatively small areas such as airports, downtown districts or theme parks.

Swift has expanded on this definition to include larger systems capable of covering regional transit.

Swift's synergistic cascade: Grade separation on a fixed guideway allows for safe automation, which allows for an 80% reduction in OpEx per vehicle, which leads to smaller vehicles, which leads to lighter infrastructure, which leads to a larger guideway network and more frequent service, which leads to higher ridership.

Swift strives to provide the technology that can achieve an actual profit in passenger transit.

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Safety

- Suspended coaches have proven to be the safest mode of mass transit on Earth.

Cost

- Automated vehicles on a fixed guideway have the lowest OpEx in the industry. Suspended-vehicle transit has the lowest CapEx of all fixed guideway modes.

Reliability

- Grade-separated transit is immune to traffic congestion, weather delays and other ground-level hazards.

Energy

- Streamlined 22-passenger coaches use the least amount of energy per rider of any mass-transit mode.

Expandability

- Distributed control to smart drive-bogies allows for unlimited expansion of the guideway network for low-speed local and high-speed regional travel.

Versatility

-Three service modes: Scheduled service during peak time, circulator service for special events and on-demand for nights and weekends.