The millennium special issue (I)

✍ Scribed by S. C. (Chan) Wirasinghe

• Publisher: Institute for Transportation Inc.
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0197-6729
• DOI: 10.1002/atr.5670340102

✦ Synopsis

At the annual meeting held in Washington D.C. in January 1998, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Advanced Transportation decided that a special issue would be published to commemorate the Millennium. Each paper in the Millennium Special Issue would explore a key area of transportation that is of interest to readers of the Journal. The advances made during the last few decades of the 20th Century would be reviewed, and the likely state of the art during the first few decades of the 21" century would be envisioned, in each of the papers.

The Editorial Board began the process by listing a large number of key areas of interest within the transportation field and identifying the leading international authority for each. A process of ranking and voting was used to choose the prospective list for inclusion in the Millennium Special Issue. The final list is made up of those authors that agreed to have their papers included.

The Millennium Special Issue will in fact consist of two issues of the Journal of Advanced Transportation. The current issue, Volume 34-1 (2000), the first issue of the 2lSt Century, will be the first one. It will focus mainly on topics related to transportation technology and transportation planning. The papers are listed in alphabetical order of the author's last name.

J. Edward Anderson discusses the concept of personal rapid transit (PRT), which has been the key area of interest of the Advanced Transit Association. He reviews the reasons for the failure of PRT to take hold and outlines the process needed to develop the technology. The implications for a city that deploys a PRT system are discussed.