Station design for personal rapid transport systems

A personal rapid transit system comprising a dedicated guideway on which individual steered passenger vehicles travel between stations, a station of the system comprising a portion of the guideway bounded on at least one side by a platform, the width of the guideway portion being sufficient for traveling vehicles of the system to travel along a transit path in normal travel direction of the vehicles unobstructed by vehicles parked on the guideway against the platform, the platform extending generally parallel to the transit path and comprising a plurality of bays for receiving parked vehicles, each bay being defined by a respective parking section of the platform edge and accessible only via a dedicated exit path off of the guideway for a corresponding steered vehicle, which parking section extends obliquely to the transit path, whereby the same steered vehicle of the system can move from and return to the transit path while maintaining a forward travel direction of the vehicle, and park against the parking section of the platform edge of a respective one of the bays by turning from the transit path through an acute angle, the return of the same steered vehicle to the transit path only via a dedicated re-entry path different from the exit path, the parking sections of adjacent bays being connected to each other by a transition section which extends from the front end of one of the parking sections to the rear end of the other, wherein the personal rapid transit system comprises a main track along which vehicles of the system travel between a departure station and a destination station, and wherein the station is provided on a bypass track which is branched from the main track, the bypass track extending through the station at a level below that of the stretch of the main track which passes through the station.

A personal rapid transit system comprising a dedicated guideway on which individual steered passenger vehicles travel between stations, a station of the system comprising a portion of the guideway bounded on at least one side by a platform, the width of the guideway portion being sufficient for traveling vehicles of the system to travel along a transit path in normal travel direction of the vehicles unobstructed by vehicles parked on the guideway against the platform, the platform extending generally parallel to the transit path and comprising a plurality of bays for receiving parked vehicles, each bay being defined by a respective parking section of the platform edge and accessible only via a dedicated exit path off of the guideway for a corresponding steered vehicle, which parking section extends obliquely to the transit path, whereby the same steered vehicle of the system can move from and return to the transit path while maintaining a forward travel direction of the vehicle, and park against the parking section of the platform edge of a respective one of the bays by turning from the transit path through an acute angle, the return of the same steered vehicle to the transit path only via a dedicated re-entry path different from the exit path, the parking sections of adjacent bays being connected to each other by a transition section which extends from the front end of one of the parking sections to the rear end of the other, wherein the personal rapid transit system comprises a main track along which vehicles of the system travel between a departure station and a destination station, and wherein two bypass tracks are branched from the main track on opposite sides of the main track, the bypass tracks extending through the station.