Prt proposal \chapter{Ocean County}
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When using a car as a source of transportation, school based trips are remarkably inefficient. Since the majority of children traveling to school are not of age to drive t hemselves, another individual, usually a parent or nanny will make the trip as well. Although there are two people traveling from the place of residence to the place of education, only the schoolchild is actually realizing some increase in utility as a result of the trip. The individual acting as “chauffeur” is not even considered an occupant of the car by most transportation based statistical measures. The PRT system will fully alleviate such a remarkable inefficiency, especially because most Ocean County residents use cars from basic transportation.
*The picture above is of Ocean County College \subsection{Service to Housing} T  he main purpose of the PRT system we are designing is to create a network connecting main residential areas to New Jersey’s main attractions, both inter and intra city and inter an intra county; that is, the state’s major shopping, amusement, education and employment areas to its residential areas, creating an effective, eco-friendly and cheap transportation mode so New Jersey residents can reach all of the state’s main attractions more practically.
Census Bureau estimates show Ocean County is the fastest growing county in the state and one of the fastest growing counties in America. We accounted for this growth in setting up stations in specific residential areas, targeting not only more densely populated areas, but also municipalities of greater growth and the expanding residential areas within. With this, we can make sure the PRT system will not become obsolete after some time, and will in fact be a viable, safe, and very importantly, practical transportation option for the residents of Ocean County for many years to come. As of the census in 2000, there were 510,916 people living in 200,402 households within 137,876 families in the county. Overall, the population density was 310 people per square kilometer, and there were 248,711 housing units with an average density of 151 units per square kilometer. Our goal was to reach at least 80\% of residents with PRT stations within a quarter mile radius of their residence, and have about 90\% of residents within a half mile of a PRT station, thus connecting most Ocean County residents to the PRT system. Ideally, we would provide service to all of the residents in the county; however, since it contains rural areas of low population density, we found it impossible to do so without incurring unfeasible costs. Analogously, we placed more stations in more densely populated areas; we found housing developments and residential centers using satellite imaging (Google Earth and Google Maps), and also used the 2000 census data for population density; the figure below shows the population density (in population per square mile), and we used the data and the satellite images to locate the higher population density areas and create our network accordingly. T  he eastern coast of Ocean County is far more heavily populated than the more rural west. This s apparent in the way we set up our network; there are some attractions in the west (though these are not as prevalent as they are in the east, and they don’t attract as many people as the east’s bigger, more popular, and better located attractions.
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