Milton Keynes AVRT

这项可行性研究将探讨连接米尔顿凯恩斯与其周边次区域的战略公共交通系统的发展。该系统将由距离市中心约25公里半径的少数关键走廊组成，将使周围城镇和大村庄的人口通过增加连接人口的规模和增加有效的经济活动来参与城市的经济增长。这项研究将以先进快速交通（AVRT）概念为出发点。这是公共交通技术的一个新概念，采用自动驾驶汽车在专门设计的、物理隔离的道路上运行，提供快速、频繁和可靠的公共交通服务。该系统承诺显著改善服务质量，同时改善成本和碳基准，这是目前与传统公共交通解决方案相关的。如果成功，可行性研究将产生一个次区域公共交通系统的蓝图，这将支持米尔顿凯恩斯的经济增长计划，同时提供一个“同类首创”的示范系统，向世界其他地区展示英国的能力。

This feasibility study will explore the development of a strategic mass transit system which links Milton Keynes with its surrounding sub-region. The system, which will comprise a small number of key corridors reaching to a radius of approximately 25km from the city centre, will enable the populations of the surrounding towns and large villages to participate in the economic growth of the city by doubling the size of the connected population and increasing the effective economic activity.The study will adopt the novel Advanced Very Rapid Transit (AVRT) concept as its starting point. This is a new concept in mass transit technology, employing autonomous vehicles running on purpose-designed, physically segregated, pathways to deliver fast, frequent and reliable public transport services. The system promises a significant improvement in quality of service whilst delivering improvements in the cost and carbon benchmarks which are currently associated with traditional public mass transit solutions. If it is successful, the feasibility study will produce a blueprint for a sub-regional mass transit system which will support the plans for economic growth in Milton Keynes whilst providing a 'first-of-a-kind' demonstration system which will showcase UK-capabilities to the rest of the world.