The Detroit People Mover: technology upgrades and rehabilitation plans on a middle-aged urban AGT

Author

Hansen, Barbara ; Latham, Earnest, Jr. ; Gary, Dennis ; Shogan, Scott

fYear

2003

fDate

22-24 April 2003

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

97

Abstract

The Detroit People Mover (DPM) is an automated guideway transit (AGT) system operating in downtown Detroit. Through the Detroit Transportation Corporation, the City of Detroit has embarked on a concerted effort to restore the DPM as an important downtown link circulator. This program includes restoring the system to a well-maintained status and upgrading various subsystems to more modern levels of technology. The project includes work on essentially all subsystems including the vehicles, ATC, trackwork, SCADA and communications. Work began in 2002 and will continue into 2004 and will result in a fully modernized transit system. That upgraded transit system is an important building block in the City´s revitalization of the downtown area.

Keywords

SCADA systems; automatic guided vehicles; maintenance engineering; rail traffic; railways; rapid transit systems; traffic control; Detroit People Mover; Detroit Transportation Corporation; SCADA; automated guideway transit system; automatic train control; communications; downtown link circulator; modernized transit system; subsystems upgrading; Automatic control; Cities and towns; Computerized monitoring; Concrete; Control systems; Rails; Substations; Switchgear; Transportation; Vehicle driving;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rail Conference, 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/ASME Joint

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7741-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RRCON.2003.1204654

Filename

1204654