I’m impressed by these centre poles with street lights in New Orleans - if the got rid of the ugly Moses Obeid poles in George St and used something like this they wouldn’t need their money burning, unreliable APS :
>> http://www.jtbell.net/transit/NewOrleans/Canal/Unfortunately, economy and reliability don’t seem to have been the primary considerations for CSELR. Maybe they will be after a few years of storm disrupted operations caused by flooding :


https://www.polisnetwork.eu/publicdocuments/download/1763/document/alimentation-pas-le-sol-2---finalpolis.pdf https://www.polisnetwork.eu/publicdocuments/download/1763/document/alimentation-pas-le-sol-2---finalpolis.pdf (see P11 for comments on APS)

http://www.sacog.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/fullplanwithappendices.pdf http://www.sacog.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/fullplanwithappendices.pdf (see P47 for APS comments)

Here’s an early history of APS development I found, though it’s a bit of a puff piece by Parsons Brinkerhoff :

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/ec058/15_02_Swanson.pdf http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/ec058/15_02_Swanson.pdf

It reveals the complexity compared to overhead. Latest year mentioned seems to be 2002, so it’s about 15 years old.

I’ve been looking for something on APS performance in Rio de Janeiro, which has similar weather to Sydney, but so far no luck.

Tony G