PRT – Gadgetbahnen on Steroids.

From August, 2010. PRT – Gadgetbahnen on Steroids. Posted by zweisystem on Monday, August 23, 2010 Every few years, much is made of PRT or Personal Rapid Transit, as being the new way to move people. Except for a few specialized installations, such as Morgantown USA, PRT has proven to be both expensive for what […]

The demise of PRT!

I have included this item because of Raytheons’s involvement of this particular PRT system at a time when they were acting as engineer/consultants for the then Broadway-Lougheed light rail project. It came closest in the 1990s, when defense giant Raytheon purchased the rights to Taxi 2000ai??i??s technology. Raytheons negativity towards LRT at the time, encouraged […]

PRT – Gadgetbahnen on Steroids.

Every few years, much is made of PRT or Personal Rapid Transit, as being the new way to move people. Except for a few specialized installations, such as Morgantown USA, PRT has proven to be both expensive for what it does and esthetically unappealing. For a PRT system to actually work, one would need elevated […]