Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Author: admin
Automated system which is difficult to implement
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is an interesting concept of an automated transportation system. In a perfect PRT, 2-4 passengers would ride in computer controlled vehicles on elevated rails to avoid impacting surface activity. The vehicles would follow these guideways to allow optimum use of time and space. While this looks very promising on paper, the idea is very costly and has yet to be actually implemented.
Maybe someday this “dream” will come to be, but the people at Treehugger have their doubts. In the mean time Pay4Rides would have the same benefits for 2-4 passengers, but instead of expensive robot podcars, the personal vehicles would be existing cars driven by actual drivers.
Category: Ride Share, Yellow
Tuesday, 19. May 2009
PRT becomes much cheaper when you avoid having to construct new grade-separated rights-of-way by installing the track on existing freeways. Doing it on higher-traffic roads also means you can upgrade it to a Group Rapid Transit (GRT) system, with more passengers per vehicle and thus better fuel efficiency. Check out http://cybertran.com for an example.
Sunday, 13. December 2009
You may be interested to know that there’s a PRT system already built, currently being tested, due to open to the public next year at Heathrow airport, London, another system being is built in Masdar, in the Emirates, and a third system is in the planning stages in Suncheon, Korea.
According to vendors, it’s a lot cheaper than light rail.