Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review
    Vol. 53 No. 3 (2016)   Commercial Aviation & Transportation Systems
    Technical Papers
    AGT: New TOD Solution for Urban Transportation Issues
    MASAHISA MASUKAWA
    HIDEKAZU ONO
    In many of the cities around the world with problems such as traffic congestion, the introduction and promotion of public transportation based on TOD (Transit Oriented Development) has been planned. In many cases, however, planners have come up against the problem of high construction costs arising from securing land, and the introduction and promotion of public transportation has not gone smoothly. Existing AGT (Automated Guideway Transit) systems in cities feature good harmony with the cities due to their high environmental and running performances, and can be retrofitted to a city using urban spaces ranging from underground to elevated guideways. By anticipating the needs of the transportation system in a future city, MHI realized a transportation volume 60% larger than that of the domestic conventional system and elevated the maximum speed to 120 km/h to provide a train type mix that can cope with expanded application areas in the field of urban transportation. We will introduce our AGT as an urban transportation solution for a new age to cities around the world.

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