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NEWS:
Taxi 2000 pledges $5 million for Minnesota PRT
testing facility. (01.24.10)
Grasp potential of personal rapid transport,
consultant tells Mayor [of London]. (01.22.10)
Fox Business' Stossel on The Rail Scam. (01.21.10)
Winona to seek $25 million, signs off on application
for test pod technology. MN city looks to build PRT
testing facility. (01.20.10)
New 2GetThere vehicle demonstration video from
Masdar here. Featured at World Future Energy
Summit in Abu Dhabi. YouTube. (01.19.10)
As light rail starts to derail in Honolulu, check out
updates and our recommendation for PRT on the
Honolulu page.
Recommended read: Rail Disasters of the Oughts.
PRT Strategies quoted in the Long Beach Business
Journal on transportation options for re-vitalization
of the Queen Mary. (12.21.09)
Newgeography: PRT as 21st Century transport.
(12.21.09)
YouTube video of full-length ULTra PRT ride at
Heathrow Airport -- Terminal 5 to parking lot and
return. (12.17.09)
Harvard Business School on PRT: Can
Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
Prof. Edelman's research here.
Emirates Business on PRT: "could change how we
travel".
City of Winona, MN considers PRT. Brochure here.
More here and here. 1/18/10 update here.
LA City Councilman shows interest in PRT.
In response to a recently completed Streetcar study
for the City of Long Beach, we spoke and presented
this to a City Council Study Session on 11/17/09.
Interest in PRT increases in Great Britain. 130
designers submit ideas for PRT in Bath.
San Jose ABC news piece on Mineta Inrernational
Airport PRT development here.
J. Edward Anderson's latest paper on the Evolution
of PRT.
San Jose Airport exec visits ULTra Heathrow
operation. “I was impressed with the great amount
of thought and attention to detail Advanced
Transport Systems (ATS) has invested to translate
this innovative technological concept into an
attractive transit service— the kind of service
patrons will want to continue to use once the 'wow'
factor has faded.” -- Laura Stuchinsky,
Sustainability Officer, San José Department of
Transportation. City PowerPoint here.
See our new graphic portrayal of light rail vs. PRT
costs in Honolulu here.
New ULTra video here.
Boston Globe posts an excellent article on PRT here.
David Gow's series on PRT here (Seattle Examiner)
charts its development history.
We've responded to the Honolulu American Institute
of Architects' contention that at-grade streetcars
are a better solution for the city than elevated light
rail. Per our new page for Honolulu, PRT IS A
BETTER SOLUTION.
Vectus announces MOU for 40 vehicle, three mile
system in South Korea. Vehicles said to operate at
37mph (60kph), much faster than existing
competition. New 2009 Vectus brochure available
here. And more here via Vectus' September, 2009
newsletter. More on Vectus' parent, POSCO Steel
here.
Read our recent column in the Long Beach
Business Journal suggesting PRT for downtown
Long Beach and to attract re-development for the
Queen Mary and its adjacent property. We've put up
a new page for Long Beach.
PRT under consideration for the City of Mountain
View (CA), Google and NASA facilities (SF peninsula).
PRT Consulting blogs "Transportation in Broken".
New Masdar information here from 2getthere.
The Morgantown PRT system at the University of
West Virginia has been upgraded and is back in
regular service. This system has delivered over 23
million injury-free miles and carried over 63 million
riders since the 1970s.
Having said PRT is "ready for primetime", the City of
San Jose, CA has released the first of two RFPs to
research and evaluate an Automated Transit
Network to connect Mineta International Airport with
their local LRT and BART commuter rail systems.
ULTra enters operational testing at Heathrow. The
21-vehicle $45 million system should be open to the
public in the Spring of 2010. 400 vehicles are said
to be planned.
We presented our ideas for Huntington Beach to HB
Tomorrow's June Board meeting.
MIT weighs in on PRT here.
Wendell Cox nails it: Transit is No Solution to Global
Warming. But PRT, partly solar powered, is a
completely electrified solution for today's
environmental issues.
PRT for Masdar, the "City of the Future", in Abu
Dhabi -- Robert Lohmann from winning vendor
2GetThere interviewed here.
New Vectus video released on You Tube here.
Per the City of San Jose: After reviewing the [recent
RFI] responses, we have concluded that [Personal
Rapid Transit] technology is ready for “prime time.”
(12.15.08)
We spoke to the Orangeline Development Authority
Board about PRT in the Pacific Electric Right-of-Way
and how it would be a complementary connector
system to the elevated high-speed system they
wish to operate from Los Angeles into Orange
County. We also introduced our colleagues from
Tubular Rail to the Board members and Chair.
Older news here.
Taxi 2000 pledges $5 million for Minnesota PRT
testing facility. (01.24.10)
Grasp potential of personal rapid transport,
consultant tells Mayor [of London]. (01.22.10)
Fox Business' Stossel on The Rail Scam. (01.21.10)
Winona to seek $25 million, signs off on application
for test pod technology. MN city looks to build PRT
testing facility. (01.20.10)
New 2GetThere vehicle demonstration video from
Masdar here. Featured at World Future Energy
Summit in Abu Dhabi. YouTube. (01.19.10)
As light rail starts to derail in Honolulu, check out
updates and our recommendation for PRT on the
Honolulu page.
Recommended read: Rail Disasters of the Oughts.
PRT Strategies quoted in the Long Beach Business
Journal on transportation options for re-vitalization
of the Queen Mary. (12.21.09)
Newgeography: PRT as 21st Century transport.
(12.21.09)
YouTube video of full-length ULTra PRT ride at
Heathrow Airport -- Terminal 5 to parking lot and
return. (12.17.09)
Harvard Business School on PRT: Can
Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
Prof. Edelman's research here.
Emirates Business on PRT: "could change how we
travel".
City of Winona, MN considers PRT. Brochure here.
More here and here. 1/18/10 update here.
LA City Councilman shows interest in PRT.
In response to a recently completed Streetcar study
for the City of Long Beach, we spoke and presented
this to a City Council Study Session on 11/17/09.
Interest in PRT increases in Great Britain. 130
designers submit ideas for PRT in Bath.
San Jose ABC news piece on Mineta Inrernational
Airport PRT development here.
J. Edward Anderson's latest paper on the Evolution
of PRT.
San Jose Airport exec visits ULTra Heathrow
operation. “I was impressed with the great amount
of thought and attention to detail Advanced
Transport Systems (ATS) has invested to translate
this innovative technological concept into an
attractive transit service— the kind of service
patrons will want to continue to use once the 'wow'
factor has faded.” -- Laura Stuchinsky,
Sustainability Officer, San José Department of
Transportation. City PowerPoint here.
See our new graphic portrayal of light rail vs. PRT
costs in Honolulu here.
New ULTra video here.
Boston Globe posts an excellent article on PRT here.
David Gow's series on PRT here (Seattle Examiner)
charts its development history.
We've responded to the Honolulu American Institute
of Architects' contention that at-grade streetcars
are a better solution for the city than elevated light
rail. Per our new page for Honolulu, PRT IS A
BETTER SOLUTION.
Vectus announces MOU for 40 vehicle, three mile
system in South Korea. Vehicles said to operate at
37mph (60kph), much faster than existing
competition. New 2009 Vectus brochure available
here. And more here via Vectus' September, 2009
newsletter. More on Vectus' parent, POSCO Steel
here.
Read our recent column in the Long Beach
Business Journal suggesting PRT for downtown
Long Beach and to attract re-development for the
Queen Mary and its adjacent property. We've put up
a new page for Long Beach.
PRT under consideration for the City of Mountain
View (CA), Google and NASA facilities (SF peninsula).
PRT Consulting blogs "Transportation in Broken".
New Masdar information here from 2getthere.
The Morgantown PRT system at the University of
West Virginia has been upgraded and is back in
regular service. This system has delivered over 23
million injury-free miles and carried over 63 million
riders since the 1970s.
Having said PRT is "ready for primetime", the City of
San Jose, CA has released the first of two RFPs to
research and evaluate an Automated Transit
Network to connect Mineta International Airport with
their local LRT and BART commuter rail systems.
ULTra enters operational testing at Heathrow. The
21-vehicle $45 million system should be open to the
public in the Spring of 2010. 400 vehicles are said
to be planned.
We presented our ideas for Huntington Beach to HB
Tomorrow's June Board meeting.
MIT weighs in on PRT here.
Wendell Cox nails it: Transit is No Solution to Global
Warming. But PRT, partly solar powered, is a
completely electrified solution for today's
environmental issues.
PRT for Masdar, the "City of the Future", in Abu
Dhabi -- Robert Lohmann from winning vendor
2GetThere interviewed here.
New Vectus video released on You Tube here.
Per the City of San Jose: After reviewing the [recent
RFI] responses, we have concluded that [Personal
Rapid Transit] technology is ready for “prime time.”
(12.15.08)
We spoke to the Orangeline Development Authority
Board about PRT in the Pacific Electric Right-of-Way
and how it would be a complementary connector
system to the elevated high-speed system they
wish to operate from Los Angeles into Orange
County. We also introduced our colleagues from
Tubular Rail to the Board members and Chair.
Older news here.
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First they ignore you,
then they ridicule you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
then they ridicule you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
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