Editing Automated guideway transit (section)

{{short description|Fully automated transit system}}{{More citations needed|date=January 2024}}[[File:KNT2000 2106p0809.jpg|thumb|''[[Port Island Line]]'' AGT, [[Kobe]], [[Japan]] (the world's first mass transit AGT)]]
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[[File:Lille VAL 208.jpg|thumb|[[Véhicule Automatique Léger|VAL]]-208 type train in the [[Lille Metro]]]]
[[File:Skytrain Mark II-300.jpg|thumb|A [[SkyTrain (Vancouver) rolling stock#Bombardier ART Mark II train fleet|Mark II]] train in [[Vancouver]], Canada. The [[SkyTrain (Vancouver)|SkyTrain]] is the longest driverless transit system in the Americas.]]
An '''automated guideway transit''' ('''AGT''') or '''automated fixed-guideway transit'''<ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Juster |first1=Reuben Morris |title=A Trip Time Comparison of Automated Guideway Transit |date=2013 |hdl=1903/14304 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/1903/14304 |access-date=6 May 2022 |type=Thesis |language=en}}</ref> or '''automatic guideway transit'''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ko |first1=Hee-Young |last2=Shin |first2=Kwang-Bok |last3=Cho |first3=Se-Hyun |last4=Kim |first4=Dea-Hwan |title=An Evaluation of Structural Integrity and Crashworthiness of Automatic Guideway Transit(AGT) Vehicle made of Sandwich Composites |journal=Composites Research |date=2008 |volume=21 |issue=5 |pages=15–22 |url=https://www.koreascience.or.kr/article/JAKO200801440609792.page |access-date=6 May 2022 |issn=2288-2103}}</ref> 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.<ref name="TCQSM">{{Cite book |url=https://www.nap.edu/read/24766/chapter/1 |title=Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual. Transit Cooperative Highway Research Program (TCRP) Report 165 |edition=Third |author=Kittelson & Assoc |author2=Parsons Brinckerhoff |author3=KFH Group |author4=Texas A&M Transportation Institute |author5=Arup |date=2013 |publisher=Transportation Research Board |place=Washington |isbn=978-0-309-28344-1 |page=11-52 |chapter=Chapter 11: Glossary and Symbols|doi=10.17226/24766 }}</ref> The vehicles are often rubber tired or steel wheeled, but other traction systems including air cushion, [[suspended monorail]] and [[maglev (transport)|maglev]] have been implemented. The guideway provides both physical support, like a road, as well as the guidance. An automated line can be cheaper to run than a conventional line, due to the shorter trains and stations.<ref name="Moccia">{{cite web |last1=Moccia |first1=Luigi |last2=Allen |first2=Duncan W. |last3=Laporte |first3=Gilbert |last4=Spinosa |first4=Andrea |title=Mode boundaries of automated metro and semi-rapid rail in urban transit |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12469-021-00287-9 |website=Public Transport |access-date=8 May 2024 |pages=739–802 |language=en |doi=10.1007/s12469-021-00287-9 |date=1 October 2022}}</ref>

AGT covers a wide variety of systems, from limited [[people mover]] systems commonly found at airports,<ref name="TCQSM"/> to more complex [[List of automated train systems|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.<ref name="TCQSM"/>