Autran Passenger Cabin in Closed Condition

No passengers appear in the illustration but you may assume that you are in the cabin, possibly with other passengers as well. The cabin will move down a branch guideway to merge with auto platforms, freight containers and/or other cabins moving along a main guideway. You will move at high speed past unloading stations that have not been selected by anyone in your cabin, stopping only after your cabin branches off to reach a selected unloading station. Your cabin will stop only long enough to allow passengers to exit. (Ordinarily, no passenger is permitted to enter at an unloading station.) The cabin will then be closed and will continue on its way to the next selected unloading station, going at high speed past all intervening stations. It is possible that you might encounter seven intervening stops but it is very unlikely since all who entered with you may have selected a stop that is either your stop or beyond your stop and if any intervening stop is selected, it may have been selected by two or more persons. While eight passengers may enter during a rush hour, the average number entering over the duration of a week may be four or less and the average number of intervening stops that a user might expect to encounter may be less than one.

When a cabin is empty after reaching the last unloading station of those selected, the cabin may be automatically moved to the queue of a nearby loading station where it will be needed in normal circumstances. However, if a concert, sporting event or other gathering will result in a large demand for cabins at one or more loading stations, special commands may be entered to move empty cabins toward the queues of such stations at appropriate times. The system may obtain and store data as to the history of movements of all vehicles, cabins, platforms and containers. When any one of them requires a special or periodic maintenance, servicing or cleaning operation, it may be automatically moved to an appropriate facility at the appropriate time.

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