Cabinet Taxi - Cabinet Taxi

...France has been developing systems such as ARAMIS, which allows for high-density operation of small vehicles as PRT, and constructed and started operating the VAL in Lille in 1983. Germany is the most proactive among European countries in its development, and has completed the PRT Cabinen Taxi, which is being used for short-distance transportation in hospitals and other facilities. In Japan, around 1970, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Construction, local governments, and private companies began to consider research and development of new transportation systems, and within a few years, about 10 types of systems were developed by private companies, including the CVS (abbreviation for computer controlled vehicle system), which was developed by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry as a type of PRT through cooperation between the government, academia, and the private sector. ...

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…フランスは，PRTとしての小型車両の高密度運行を可能にしたアラミスARAMISなどのシステムの開発を進め，83年リールにバルVALを建設し，運用している。ドイツは，ヨーロッパ諸国の中でいちばん積極的に開発を進めており，PRTとしてキャビネン･タクシーCabinen Taxiを完成し，病院などで短距離交通として実用化している。　日本では1970年前後より通産，運輸，建設の各省や地方自治体，民間企業などで，新交通システムの研究開発の検討が開始され，通産省で官学民の協力によりPRTの一種として開発されたCVS(computer controlled vehicle systemの略)をはじめとして，民間企業により数年間のうちに10機種ほどのシステムが開発された。…

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