computer controlled vehicle system

...Germany is the most aggressive in developing PRT among European countries, 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, and the Ministry of Construction, local governments, and private companies began to consider research and development of new transportation systems. 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 through cooperation between the government, academia, and the private sector as a type of PRT. At first, there was a mixture of various types from small to medium-sized, but later, train-type medium-capacity track transportation systems became mainstream, mainly due to their financial viability. ...

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…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。当初は小型から中型まで各種のものが混在したが，その後，主として経営採算性から列車型の中量軌道輸送システムが主流となっている。…

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