Sources & Further Reading
Austrans is almost undocumented outside of the pages below. Every fact, figure, and image on this site traces back to one of these sources.
Primary source
- Austrans info pageJerry (J.B.) Schneider, Innovative Transportation Technologies, University of Washington. The main technical description this archive is built from.
- Austrans gallery of application imagesThe companion image gallery on the same ITRANS site. Source of most of the concept renderings in our Gallery.
Independent documentation
- Unusual Sydney Rail SchemesAn archived Geocities page by an independent Sydney rail enthusiast who visited a Bishop Austrans open day on 10 February 2004. Source for the 2004 status details on our History and Status pages.
- PRT / GRT alternatives comparisonA comparison document on the same ITRANS site weighing Austrans against other automated transit alternatives on speed, capacity, energy use, and noise.
- Bishop Austrans company listingVentureRadar's archived company profile, including the Sinclair Knight Merz viability assessment summary.
Arthur Ernest Bishop
- Arthur Ernest Bishop, WikipediaBiography of the steering-technology inventor whose engineering career led to Austrans.
- Steering the Way, Madderns Patent & Trade Mark AttorneysA retrospective on Bishop's engineering career and patent portfolio.
- Arthur Ernest Bishop, patent searchJustia's index of Bishop's patents, including the bogie, grip wheel, rail profile, and switch mechanisms behind Austrans.
Image credits & disclaimer. Archival photographs, sketches, and diagrams throughout this site are reproduced from the ITRANS Austrans pages above, originally published in Bishop Austrans brochures and newsletters. They are used here at modest size, captioned, for non-commercial historical documentation. Friends of Austrans is an unofficial fan project with no affiliation to Bishop Innovation, Bishop Technology Group, the Bishop family, or the University of Washington. If you are a rights holder with a concern about how an image is used here, we want to hear from you and will act promptly.