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What (who) is guideway - definition

FULLY AUTOMATED, DRIVERLESS, GRADE-SEPARATED TRANSIT SYSTEM IN WHICH VEHICLES ARE AUTOMATICALLY GUIDED ALONG A GUIDEWAY
Automated Guideway Transit; Automated Guided Transit; Guideway; Automated fixed-guideway transit
  • ''[[Port Island Line]]'' AGT, [[Kobe]], [[Japan]] (the world's first mass transit AGT)
  • VAL]]-208 type train in the [[Lille Metro]]
  • SkyTrain]] is the longest driverless transit system in the Americas.
  • The [[Tampa International Airport People Movers]]
  • [[Taipei Metro VAL256]] train on the [[Wenhu line]]

guideway         
¦ noun a groove or track along which something moves.
Automated guideway transit         
An automated guideway transit (AGT) or automated fixed-guideway transit or automatic guideway transit system is a type of fixed guideway transit infrastructure with a riding or suspension track that supports and physically guides one or more driverless vehicles along its length. The vehicles are often rubber tired or steel wheeled, but other traction systems including air cushion, suspended monorail and maglev have been implemented.
Automated Guideway Transit System project (Philippines)         
The Philippine government has commenced a project to develop a locally designed and manufactured Automated Guideway Transit System (AGTS) through its Department of Science and Technology (DOST). Two prototype lines has been set up by the DOST, one within the University of the Philippines Diliman campus and another in Bicutan in Taguig.

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Automated guideway transit

An automated guideway transit (AGT) or automated fixed-guideway transit or automatic guideway transit system is a type of fixed guideway transit infrastructure with a riding or suspension track that supports and physically guides one or more driverless vehicles along its length. The vehicles are often rubber tired or steel wheeled, but other traction systems including air cushion, suspended monorail and maglev have been implemented. The guideway provides both physical support, like a road, as well as the guidance.

AGT covers a wide variety of systems, from limited people mover systems commonly found at airports, to more complex automated train systems like the Vancouver SkyTrain. In the people mover role the term "automated people mover" (APM) is sometimes used, although this distinction is relatively rare because most people movers are automated. Larger systems span a variety of conceptual designs, from subway-like advanced rapid transit (ART) systems to smaller (typically two to six passengers) vehicles known as personal rapid transit (PRT) which offer direct point-to-point travel along a switched network.

Examples of use of guideway
1. The train, which hugs its magnetic guideway, did not derail.
2. The carriages float on an electro–magnetic cushion about a centimetre above the guideway.
3. Maglev trains – short for magnetic levitation – use powerful magnets that allow the train to skim along its guideway without touching it, reducing friction and increasing speeds.
4. Maglev supporters contend that the trains are nearly impossible to derail because they wrap around the guideway and have no wheels.
5. Seats and other wreckage were left strewn beneath the track. (Watch a crane pull mangled chunks of train from the track –– 1:12) "Maglev" trains –– short for magnetic levitation –– use powerful magnets that allow the train to skim along its guideway without touching it, reducing friction and increasing speeds.