Detroit People Mover (DPM ) is a 2.94-mile (4.73 km) automated, automobile body operating on a single track, and encircles Downtown Detroit, Michigan. The People Mover uses IGBS Mark ICTS technology and its cars without drivers. Separation allows the system to be used by way of a two-way bypass when part of a circular path is closed.
QLine Streetcar serves as a link between the Detroit People Mover and New Center Amtrak station, plus additional access to the DDOT and SMART bus routes as part of a comprehensive transportation network in metropolitan Detroit.
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The Detroit People Mover had its origins in 1966, with the creation of a Congress of the Urban Mass Administration (UMTA) to develop a new type of transit. In 1975, after the failure to produce large-scale results and increased pressure to show results, UMTA created the Downtown People Mover Program (DPM) and sponsored a national competition that offered federal funds to cover most of the cost of planning and building such systems. UMTA reviewed thirty-five complete proposals. From this, they selected proposals from Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, and St. Paul. In addition, UMTA decided they would approve proposals from Baltimore, Detroit, and Miami to develop the People Mover system if they could do so with existing grant commitments. Of the seven cities with UMTA approval for their People Mover proposal, only Detroit and Miami are determined to build and operate the system.
Ford Motor Company was involved in one of the People Mover's designs and has hired AlScott Service Company to design and build a working model of the room size of the system. This model is used for Ford's proposals in their efforts to build the system.
The People Mover is intended to be a downtown distributor for the proposed city and metro-wide light rail system for Detroit in the early 1980s; however, the funding is reduced. President Gerald Ford has pledged 600 million federal funds. Plans include a subway line along Woodward Avenue that will turn into a street-level train at McNichols and eventually head to Pontiac, with an additional rail line running along Gratiot and commuter lines between Detroit and Port Huron. The inability of local leaders to reach agreement led to a 600 million commitment drawn by the Reagan Administration. But People Movers are still moving forward. At the time of planning, the system is projected to have 67,700 riders every day.
The People Mover is owned and operated by Detroit Transportation Corporation (DTC). DTC was established in 1985 as a Michigan Public Company for the purpose of acquiring, possessing, constructing, equipping, equipping, completing, operating, upgrading, and/or disposing of Central Automated Transit Systems (CATS) in Detroit, Michigan. DTC acquired the CATS project of the Suburban Cellular Sub-Authority for Regional Transport (SMART) previously known as the Southeast Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA), on October 4, 1985. DTC was created by Detroit City, Michigan under Act 7 of the Public Acts of 1967 and a component unit of Detroit City and its activity account under its ownership funds.
The CATS project, aka Downtown People Mover (DPM), was officially opened to the public on July 31, 1987. Prior to November 18, 1988, the People's Driving System was operated and maintained by the main contractor Urban Transportation Development Corporation (UTDC) on a month to month basis. On November 18, 1988, the DTC assumed responsibility for operating and maintaining the People Mover System.
The system was opened in 1987 using the same technology as Vancouver's SkyTrain and Toronto's Scarborough RT line. In the first year, an average of 11,000 riders use People Movers every day; One day record is 54,648.
When People Mover is open, it runs counter-clockwise. On July 20, 2008, the system was temporarily closed to change lanes at six indentations along the route. When it reopens in August, the system runs clockwise, as it still runs today, though it can run in both directions when needed. Direction changes reduce the time it takes to complete a round trip. Clockwise direction has a relatively short and steep climb uphill and then down the coast for most of the journey, allowing the train to use gravity to accelerate. This makes every round trip a bit faster than running the most uphill in a counter-clockwise direction.
On January 22nd, 2015 at about 10:10 pm, one of the cars jumped over the rail that hit the tracks. This prompted the system to temporarily shut down to allow an investigation to take place. After 17 hours of inquiry, the system re-operates. According to a media release given by the inspector, "A bracket under one of the People Mover cars is dislodged, catching under a rear car back to the Times Square Station, causing the rear car to come out of the alignment and leaving the rail." As a result, the second car erodes the platform, pulled out the door as the train pulled into the station. "
Cost-effectiveness and usage
Drivers cost $ 12 million annually in the city and state subsidies to run. The cost effectiveness of Movers has invited criticism. In each year between 1997 and 2006, the cost per passenger of miles exceeds $ 3, and $ 4.26 in 2009, compared to Detroit bus routes operating at $ 0.82 (the New York City Subway operates at $ 0.30 per miles of passengers). The Mackinac Center for Public Policy also alleges that the system does not benefit locals, suggesting that less than 30% of drivers are Detroit residents and that Saturday's passengers (possibly out-of-towners) dwarf the use of working days. The system is designed to move up to 15 million riders per year. In 2008 it serves about 2 million riders. This means the system averages around 7,500 people per day, about 2.5 percent of its daily peak capacity of 288,000. In 2006, Mover filled less than 10 percent of his seat.
In 2016, passengers pay $ 0.75 per trip, with discounts for seniors and some rides. The tariff was initially 50 cents until it was raised to the current rate in November 2011.
Among the busiest period is five days around Super Bowl XL 2006, when 215,910 customers use this service. In addition to major city center concerts and sporting events, other high-flying times include the annual American American International Auto Show anniversary in January and the Youmacon anime convention in late October, since the convention was expanded in 2012 to utilize the Cobo Center in addition to the Renaissance Center. The system has 92,384 motorists during 2014 extended weekend.
Since the downtown area has changed, it affects service and access to certain stations even though the overall route and station placement remain the same. When the Store Department building J. L. Hudson was detonated in October 1998, the closest part of the line was damaged and forced the system to shut down. Before the track is completely fixed about a year later, limited services take effect. In 2000, the David Whitney Building was closed, cutting off access to Grand Circus Park Station. The station was then reopened without disability access as it was in the David Whitney Building, which was finally reopened in late 2014. During the construction of Compuware World Headquarters and the parking garage, the Cadillac Center stop was closed as part of a built-in parking structure. The station is largely untouched and unmodified although the entrance is slightly expanded to allow a direct path to the parking garage stairs and the nearest elevator tower.
In 2002, the concrete embankment in front of the Renaissance Center was moved to make it more inviting to the entire city center. It also requires the dismantling of the station and tile artwork by George Woodman. Limited services continued but again, passengers declined significantly (see chart below) until the stations and track sections were rebuilt to restore full circular operations in 2004. To replace old artworks, Woodman designed a new tile artwork called Path Games.
As part of the restoration of the David Whitney Building, the Grand Circus Park station closes on August 16, 2014 to complete the facelift originally planned to open in January 2015. The repaired station will now feature the ADA accessibility independently of David Whitney Building. The project is overseen by Dumas Concepts in Building. Grand Circus Park Station was officially reopened on June 13, 2015. Due to its closure, the 2014 rider's rate of the station dropped to 72,774 (12 of 13 stations). For comparison, 2013 passenger rate at Grand Circus is 136.255.
Expansion
There is a proposal to extend the People Mover north to the New Center and the neighborhood is not within walking distance of downtown. A proposal was submitted by Marsden Burger, former People Mover manager, to double the length of the route by extending the People Mover along Woodward Avenue to West Grand Boulevard and into the New Center area. The new stop will include the Amtrak station, Wayne State University and the cultural center, Detroit Medical Center, and Henry Ford Hospital. The plan is proposed at a tentative cost of $ 150-200 million, and will be paid with a combination of public and private financing. Finally it was decided that the system would connect to the New Center with tram lines following many of the proposed routes.
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Operation and maintenance
The People Mover is owned and operated by Detroit Transportation Corporation, an agency of the Detroit city government.
The People Mover system operations center is located at Times Square Station. Housed in the same complex is a system maintenance and car storage facility in an indoor facility. The car goes south to enter the maintenance facility and out of the north back to the main line. Maintenance equipment (work car, etc...) is lifted to the track level by a crane, but not stored with a DPM car.
Working car
Car work is not maintained or owned by DPM, but by contractors:
- three cars Loram rail grinding set (8 stone L-Series Special Rail Grinders)
Ridership
Station
DPM stopped at 13 stations, eight of which were built in existing buildings. Because the system is single tracked, the station has only one single platform configuration. Initially, 13 stations were planned to have no characteristic. However, in 1984 after the recent development began, Irene Walt formed a volunteer committee to persuade the project agent to include artworks at each station. Called the Detroit Community Driving Communications Commission (later known as Arts at Stations), they raised $ 2 million to finance the project. As a result, there are 18 new original artworks scattered throughout the station, plus one part of 1903 previously stored, with a permanent loan from the Detroit Institute of Arts. The commission and art installation efforts are documented in a 30-minute film by Sue Marx and Pamela Conn, who recently won an Academy Award for a short documentary film Young at Heart. Art in Stations premiered at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1989. In 2004, the book Art in the Stations was published, with photographs by Balthazar Korab, containing information about all the artworks of the station and the artists who created them.
Public art
Each station features artwork created by various artists. Art completed with system opening in 1987 unless otherwise stated:
- Times Square
- In respect of W. Hawkins Ferry (Artist: Tom Phardel/Pewabic Pottery - glazed tiles)
- Untitled (1993) (Artist: Anat Shiftan/Pewabic Pottery - mural tile)
- Michigan Ave
- Voyage (Artist: Allie McGhee - tile mural)
- On Move (Artist: Kirk Newman - cast bronze shapes on tiles)
- Fort/Cass
- Untitled (Artist: Farley Tobin - tile mural)
- Progress II (1993) (Artist: Sandra jo Osip - bronze statue)
- Cobo Center
- Calvacade of Cars (1988) (Artist: Larry Ebel/Linda Cianciolo Scarlett - mural)
- Joe Louis Arena
- Voyage (Artist: Gerome Kamrowski - venetian glass mosaic)
- The Financial District
- 'D' for Detroit (Artist: Joyce Kozloff - hand-painted ceramic murals)
- Milling Centers
- Detroit New Morning (Artist: Alvin D. Loving Jr. - painted shiny tile
- The Renaissance Center
- Siberian Ram (1993) (Artist: Marshall Fredericks - bronze statue)
- Path Games (2004) (Artist: George Woodman - ceramic tile mural) Dreamer and Browser Come to Detroit (1987-2002) (Artist: George Woodman - ceramic tile mural, destroyed by station demolition)
- Beaubien Passage (Artist: Glen Michaels - relief bases on porcelain panels)
- Neon for Greektown Station (Artist: Stephen Antonakos - free neon neon look)
- The Blue Nile (Artist: Charles McGee - painted mural panel)
- Untitled (Artist: Jun Kaneko - tiles)
- Arrest (Artist: J. Seward Johnson Jr. - bronze statue)
Rolling stock
- Manufacturer: Urban Transport Development Company (now Bombardier Transport)
- Type: ICTS Mark me
- Number of cars: 12
- Maximum speed: 56 mph (90 km/h)
The system operates in two pairs of cars.
See also
- Art on the Move
- List of fast transit systems
- List of United States transit system by user
- Metromover
- Transport in metropolitan Detroit
References
External links
- Official Website of Detroit People Mover
- YouTube.com: Drive Video from the Detroit People's Drivers
- National Transit Database Profile of Detroit Person Drivers
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