Project 2 Summary

Scenario - 2030

• Due to a sprawl cap imposed on the greater brisbane area over a decade ago to protect productive land in the SEQ region, Brisbanes inner city has heavily densified.
• In heavy business and retail districts (such as the CBD), traffic congestion was beginning to hurt retailers and businesses due to the difficulty in recieving goods, as well as being inconvenient and undesirable for customers and foot traffic in general.
• After years of planning and construction, an extensive urban personal rapid transit (PRT) network of driverless pods was completed. The pods were aimed at carrying passengers accross the car free districts to specific destinations.
• In 2030 the network is a full success and the roads have been fully remove from several "pedestrian orientated" districts (including the CBD). Businesses and retail have been using the PRT networks for the transportation of goods, and have managed to produce a very efficient system.

PRT Station, and Goods Distribution Facility under the Myer Centre

• This facility is one of many accross the inner city car free districts, constructed underneath the existing shopping centre in the spaces once occupied by the extensive underground carparking.
• Driverless pods can make tight curves on guidways around existing grid of structural columns, and only require about 2 metres of ceiling height, making them ideal for this space.
• Existing vehicle circulation between levels and entry and exits are adequate for this style of transport system
• Existing service lifts can be extended down to the lower levels and be used by the new Pod loading docks.
• Existing passenger lifts (which once were used for the customer carparking connecting to all levels of the shopping centre) can be used to transport customers down the purchase pickup and PRT station.

PRT Station

First Person Experience - Local Shopper

• A local inner city resident is one of the thousands of inner-city residents who don't own a car
• She is able to ride the monorail from the valley to the CBD and decides to buy some new clothes at a couple of stores in the centre. 
• After buying a couple of garments at more than one retailer, she decides to buy some groceries on her way out.
• While making her purchases she had the retailers send her garments down to customer pickup where they will be stored until she is ready to collect them and head home.

 

• At the supermarket, a phone app (supplied by the supermarket chain) is used to scan the QR codes of the items she wants.
• The items are automatically charged to her bank account, before the supermarket staff prepare her grocery order and transport it down to the pickup area

• On her way out of the centre, she collects her purchases from pickup, and heads to the nearest pod platform.

• A pod is charging and waiting at a berth. The destination is entered via the touch screen kiosk and the glass doors open
• A "close door" button is pressed inside the pod after entering and sitting, which signals the pod to close up and reverse out of the berth before driving out.

First Person Experience - Delivery of Goods

• A truck arrives at one of the pod loading platforms located at various locations around the car free district.
• The truck backs up to a dock face where numerous freight pods are berthed
• A driver wheels a pre-packed pallet container into one of the freight pods using a standard pallet jack
• The driver sends the pod to its destination (Myer centre) using the touch screen kiosk.

• The freight pod arrives at the Myer Centre via the PRT network and berths at the general loading docks on level basement 2

• Staff wheel the pallet container out of the pod and take it to the stock handling and storage area

• In the stock handling area containers are unpacked and goods are taken up to their recipient businesses via the service lifts or stored away for later delivery

• Goods are delivered to retailers

Pod Design - Details

Passenger Pod

• For the transport of passengers only
• Berth at PRT Station platforms on Level Basement 1

 

Freight Pod

• For the transport of custom pallet sized containers between Truck unloading and Myer Centre Facility
• Ideal for big retailers/supermarkets/department stores recieving frequent large scale orders and goods sent from their own warehouse facilities
• Pallet size containers are ideally shaped and sized for truck transport
• Berth at loading dock platforms on Levels Basement 1 and 2

 

 

 

 

Courier Pod

• For multiple deliveries on one round trip - where personel is required to transport and deliver goods to more than one recipient (multiple orders)
• Ideal for stores sending out purchases to online customer
• Ideal for small retailers recieving stock and smaller orders
• Berth at loading dock platforms on Levels Basement 1 and 2

 

 

 

 

Pod Berthing Platform

• Passengers board pods
• Pods not in use berth in allocated parking spaces
• Pods batteries recharge while parked at berths 

 

Circulation Diagrams

PRT Network to Myer Centre - Pod Entry and Exit

Customer/Passenger Pickup Area

 

Anchor Tenant 3(Coles) Loading Dock and Customer Pickup

 

General (Specialty) Stores Loading Dock

 

 General (Specialty) Stores Customer Pickup

Anchor Tenant 1(Myer) Loading Dock

 

Anchor Tenant 1(Myer) Customer Pickup

 

Anchor Tenant 2(Target) Loading Dock

 

Anchor Tenant 2(Target) Customer Pickup

 

Sections and Plans

Section

Plan - PRT Station and Pickup (Basement 1)

Plan - Loading Docks and Distribution (Basement 2)

Plan - Loading Docks and Distribution (Basement 3) 

PRT Station and Pickup Ceiling Section

Renders - PRT Station & Pickup

Ceiling Canopy - PRT Station and Pickup Area

• A unique visual element for the PRT Station 
• Includes a ceiling claddingh/lattice form to improve interior aesthetics for users
• conceals the existing concrete structure (including slabs and structural colums) inside the myer centre basement, 
• conceals building services/utilities (including wiring, piping, lighting, air ventilation systems) installed for the new facility.

Concept Sketches

3D Model

 

Pod Design

Concept Sketches

3D Model

Site Photos - Location of service lifts