The AeroTrain debuted at Dulles International Airport (VA) last month, replacing the mobile lounge system. The Washington Post describes the familiar experience, destined to be a memory for most Dulles travelers:
With the clock ticking toward takeoff, the mobile lounge — it looks like an extra-wide bus on accordion stilts, or a robotic insect from a bad 1960s sci-fi flick — seemed to plunge the traveler into a vat of molasses, from the painfully slow hydraulic lowering of the 102-passenger vehicle from gate level to ground level, to the slow backing away from the dock.
The new automated system, in contrast, “provides impatient fliers with the zippy momentum they crave,” writes Steve Hendrix. Link to full story in The Washington Post.
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Yes, it’s an on-airport link between the main terminal and the gates. There’s a long-range plan to extend Metrorail to Dulles, but that’s a separate project.
Is this used for intra-airport transportation only? Does it link up with any form of public transportation?