personal rapid transit

Invasion of the pod cars

October 5, 2009

The Boston Globe talks about personal rapid transit — AKA “pod cars” — and presents arguments from both sides of this sometimes polarizing issue.

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NASA teams up with SkyTran

September 9, 2009

NASA has signed an agreement with Unimodal to collaborate on an advanced transportation vehicle system.

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West Virginia PRT system back in service

September 1, 2009

The personal rapid transit system at West Virginia University is back in operation after a three-month break for diagnostics and system repair.

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Cooperative cybercars: Transit of the future?

August 21, 2009

European researchers on the CyberCars2 project have developed new control systems that let driverless vehicles communicate and cooperate with each other.

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Autonomous technology requires debate, report says

August 20, 2009

As society continues to put more control in the hands of machines, a report from the British Royal Academy of Engineering says that more debate is needed about the ethical and legal issues.

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Who benefits from personal rapid transit?

August 14, 2009

In Streetsblog San Francisco, Matthew Roth continues the debate about the SkyTran personal rapid transit project.

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Company pitches pods to Muni

August 11, 2009

Proponents of SkyTrain have met with the San Franciso (CA) Municipal Trnasportation Agency to pitch their personal rapid transit system.

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Going places: Rewriting transit history in Minnesota

June 18, 2009

Conrad deFiebre, Minnesota 2020 fellow, writes about the Going Places, the transportation exhibit at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul. The exhibit displays what he describes as a “weird imbalance,” especially in its depictions of light rail and personal rapid transit.

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Fifteen papers on personal rapid transit summarized

June 9, 2009

The PRT Consulting blog posted summaries from 15 papers on personal rapid transit from the 12th International Conference on Automated People Movers.

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Expo offers glimpse of future of transportation

April 28, 2009

Discussions are under way about installing a PRT system when the NASA Ames Research Park is redeveloped as a research hub in Mountain View (CA).

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