An investment of this scale would add considerable value to the land in the downtown area and permit it to be developed to much higher densities without significantly increasing auto congestion and its associated noise and air pollution impacts. If the PRT circulator could attract about ten percent of these trips, its patronage would be abut 25,000 trips per day. At this level, it would surpass Portland's MAX light rail system which carries only about 20,000 trips per day. Further information about this project and the C-CAD computer program can be obtained from Professor J. Schneider. A paper by him that describes C-CAD's capabilities in more detail can be found in the Proceedings from APM IV held in Los Colinas, Texas, in 1993.
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