Atlantic County Paige Gillette and Jon Broscious
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Paige Gillette and Jon Broscious 
DEMOGRAPHICS: Atlantic County is located in the south-east portion of New Jersey. Originally the eastern half of Gloucester County, Atlantic was established in 1837 but became its own official district in 1963. With an area of approximately 671 square miles (1,739 km2), of which 561 square miles are land, Atlantic Country comprises approximately 271,620 people1, and a population density of 470 people per square mile.2
3PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES: Casino hotels, fine china production, aviation testing/ engineering, agriculture, yacht building, glass, plastics, pharmaceutical research and promotion, tourism related services
The following is a list of major attractions, including stadiums, casinos, museums, theaters and other leisure activities with their corresponding city locations:
TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS 4ROAD MILEAGE: State: 6,671 miles; County: 373.23 miles; Garden State Parkway (toll road): 31 miles; Atlantic City Expressway (toll road): 29 miles MAJOR HIGHWAYS: Garden State Parkway; Atlantic City Expressway; U.S. Routes 9, 30, 40, 206, 322; State Routes 49, 50, 52, 54, 87, 152 RAILROADS: Passenger: Amtrak (Atlantic City to Philadelphia); NJ Transit: Atlantic City,Absecon, Egg Harbor City, Hammonton,Atco, Lindenwold, Philadelphia; Freight: Southern Railroad Company of New Jersey MAJOR STOPS IN ATLANTIC COUNTY:
Transportation in Atlantic County According to the last report, trains in Atlantic County serve the purpose of freight carrying. There are only regional (no local) bus routes in the area, between Cumberland and Atlantic Counties. Cars are the main mode of transportation. The mock PRT network we designed sought to provide public transport in such a way that over 90% of both productions and attractions were located within a quarter mile of the stations. MOCK PRT SYSTEM There are 82 schools and over 1500 businesses, restaurants and other leisure in Gloucester County. The focus for the PRT Network was attractions density, placing stations strategically so that most work areas, restaurants and attractions were readily accessible. The problem with this lay in the sparseness of households, where it was impossible to have more than 80% within a quarter mile of any station. The best system, therefore, would be a multi-modal PRT, which might require all houses within a mile or two mile radius (instead of quarter mile) to drive to the station, then take the PRT to work. We were able to access almost 95% of attractions, with emphasis on the Atlantic City area. The mock PRT system was built with the existing stations in mind, although they were not geocoded and placed on the map. We attempted to place at most 6 station stops to final destination in denser areas and four stops in sparser areas, since it was for much longer lengths of guideway. The average ratio of stations to interchanges was 5.7 to 1. With 543 nodes (stations and interchanges) attempting to supply a total of 252,552 productions and 524,791 attractions, this PRT system yielded success rates of 79.72% for productions and 94.08% for attractions. The calculations below show clearly that for this county, a full PRT system is not yet a viable option since it requires considerable expense to finance relatively few trips. However, the possibility of a multi-modal PRT (car to central stations) should be not yet be completely discounted; perhaps more attention and consideration should be given to this in future projects. Cost of PRT Cost per station = $2m, Number of stations = 462 Total cost of stations = $924m Cost per mile of guideway = $5m, length of guideway = 654.0 km = 406.353miles Total cost of guideway = $2032m Cost per vehicle = $100,000 at 1.5% of the fleet driving cars with a 90% or more covered PRT network Total cost of vehicles = 100K*0.015*271,620 = $407m Expense per person = Total cost/population = $3363m/272K = $12364 Number of trips per person per day = 4 Cost per trip per person to pay for the system over a year = $12364/(4*365) = $8.47
Total stations 462, Total interchanges 81 Productions:201340 supplied of 252552 79.72% Attractions:493727 supplied of 524791 94.08% Total Station:462 Avg Walk Attr:0.1443km Avg Walk Prod:0.2184km Avg Dist From Station:0.2248km 1 2006 estimate http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/34/34001.html 2 2000 estimate 3 Atlantic County Gov’t Fast Facts: http://www.aclink.org/culturalaffairs/fastfacts/ 4 Note: this information was obtained solely from the website in footnote 3, but was subsequently noted as present in the layout from Fall07 Directory: ~alaink -> Orf467NJ PRT08 County Reports ~alaink -> Tuesday, August 20, 2013 ~alaink -> Southern New Jersey Summary ~alaink -> Personal Rapid Transit in Cape May County ~alaink -> Janney Montgomery Scott restaurant analyst Mark Kalinowski ~alaink -> Final Project Written Report Orf467NJ PRT08 County Reports -> Camden County By Jon Broscious and Paige Gillette ~alaink -> Existing Transit Service patco high Speed Line ~alaink -> Camden County ~alaink -> Prt proposal \chapter{Ocean County} Download 54.13 Kb. Share with your friends:
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