In message
, at
23:16:06 on Mon, 11 Apr 2011, ianh
remarked:
I saw the PRT running last Thursday - at least 10 cars on the move
(empty)

Was it empty because it's not yet open for business, or because it was
quiet time of day?
--
Roland Perry

On 2011\04\12 08:20, Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
23:16:06 on Mon, 11 Apr 2011, ianh
remarked:
I saw the PRT running last Thursday - at least 10 cars on the move
(empty)

Was it empty because it's not yet open for business, or because it was
quiet time of day?

If it was open and quiet, there would be no cars on the move.

In message , at 13:43:50 on
Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Basil Jet remarked:

I saw the PRT running last Thursday - at least 10 cars on the move
(empty)

Was it empty because it's not yet open for business, or because it was
quiet time of day?

If it was open and quiet, there would be no cars on the move.

I assumed there wasn't room for all the cars to be queued up at one or
other terminal, and they'd be circulating around as a substitute for
somewhere to 'park' them.
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote:

In message , at 13:43:50 on Tue,
12 Apr 2011, Basil Jet remarked:

I saw the PRT running last Thursday - at least 10 cars on the move
(empty)

Was it empty because it's not yet open for business, or because it was
quiet time of day?

If it was open and quiet, there would be no cars on the move.

I assumed there wasn't room for all the cars to be queued up at one or
other terminal, and they'd be circulating around as a substitute for
somewhere to 'park' them.


I think that'd be an erroneous assumption - not least because the battery
capacity isn't unlimited.

In message , at 14:34:44 on Tue, 12 Apr
2011, Mizter T remarked:
I assumed there wasn't room for all the cars to be queued up at one
or other terminal, and they'd be circulating around as a substitute
for somewhere to 'park' them.

I think that'd be an erroneous assumption - not least because the
battery capacity isn't unlimited.

If the cars don't have enough battery power to keep going all day, what
happens when they get busy?
--
Roland Perry

On 2011\04\12 14:47, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:34:44 on Tue, 12 Apr
2011, Mizter T remarked:
I assumed there wasn't room for all the cars to be queued up at one
or other terminal, and they'd be circulating around as a substitute
for somewhere to 'park' them.

I think that'd be an erroneous assumption - not least because the
battery capacity isn't unlimited.

If the cars don't have enough battery power to keep going all day, what
happens when they get busy?

New ones will be magicked out of thin air. The same as what happens when
a bus pulls up at a stop with 100 people waiting to board, or when the
engines start falling off 92 stock.

"Roland Perry" wrote:

In message
, at
23:16:06 on Mon, 11 Apr 2011, ianh
remarked:
I saw the PRT running last Thursday - at least 10 cars on the move
(empty)

Was it empty because it's not yet open for business, or because it was
quiet time of day?


Still testing, testing, 1-2-3.

"Mizter T" wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote:
In message
, at
23:16:06 on Mon, 11 Apr 2011, ianh
remarked:
I saw the PRT running last Thursday - at least 10 cars on the move
(empty)

Was it empty because it's not yet open for business, or because it was
quiet time of day?


Still testing, testing, 1-2-3.



The Heathrow PRT must have had the longest period of "operational
testing" since the Advanced Passenger Train. The "operational
testing" phase started on 7 July 2009.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6an8a4l

I have a feeling that the Heathrow PRT will be bidding for a place on
a long list of abandoned British public transport projects ...