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Comment on Personal Rapid Transit and Testosterone by ana catarina crespo

ana catarina crespo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:05:47 +0000

Good afternoon,
After reading this post I noticed that the table about the stage of development of the vendors is not updated. Here MOVEMILE is in a stage of engineering design, however, that is not true because our company is already in public service, running in a hospital for disable people since march 2010.
check the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INVG-IKitnw&feature=player_embedded
So if you could correct this information we would very much appreciate.
Any other information about our mobility system just send us an e-mail through the site http://www.movemile.com and we will be most please to answer them.

Comment on Some Thoughts on Group Rapid Transit by Peter Muller

Peter Muller — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:31:53 +0000

You bring up some good points – all of which PRT is moving towards adressing sooner or later. Controlling the merging of hundreds or thousands of vehicles is quite easily demonstrated, but not yet proven in practise. A concept for providing single family homes with a back yard PRT station is depicted here http://sustainablecityconsulting.com/sustainable_city.html

Comment on Some Thoughts on Group Rapid Transit by Curious

Curious — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:36:34 +0000

I have yet to read actual specifics on how the various PRT projects plan to deal with actual issues such as
– consumer buy-in (how do you plan to convince car owners to give up their cars and hop on a public transit)
– maintenance and hygiene (who will clean up the kid’s graffiti or the slob’s garbage or repair the vandalized interior/exterior?)
– actual traffic networks (not closed loop one way test tracks)
– continuous high speed transport (meaning merging vehicles will definitely not interfere with vehicles at full speed)
– safe and comfortable acceleration and deceleration
– transport to and from PRT stops to the actual destination (i.e. a person’s home)

From everything I’ve read so far on the topic it seems that current efforts are for an improved public transit system not for private (consumer owned) pods able to get people from one location (i.e their home) to another (i.e. their workplace). While this is definitely great news for current PTS users (well, depending on the cost anyway) it doesn’t sound very innovative or revolutionary at this point.

Building a grid capable of sustaining personal privately owned pods in the volumes that we currently experience in car traffic, while maintaining uninterrupted high speeds and safe traffic merging, connecting to every house and building much like current day roads and allowing any manufacturer interested in building pods (while adhering to necessary limitations – be it size or weight or computer guidance capability) to compete on the market – while definitely very costly and time consuming and awfully complicated to safely navigate millions of pods – now that would be revolutionary.

Comment on Heathrow Personal Rapid Transit System – Unsolicited Tweets/Quotes by Malik VK

Malik VK — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:09:19 +0000

earnestly desire & Wish that such a system is installed in Indian airports and metro cities like Delhi , Mumbai , Chennai , Kolkata , Bangalore , Hyderabad cities . Delhi has a total traffic chaos whole of the day in spite of 131 Km Metro system being functional. Such a system will bring releif for those who can afford . Let we Indians also enjoy the benefit of modern day technology in our daily life .
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Comment on Personal Rapid Transit Capacity by Graham

Graham — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:34:04 +0000

Interesting blog, first time here. My own feeling on PRT is that eventually someone will build an extensive, essentially city wide system, and when they do, everyone else will look at it and say” OH! So that’s what you were talking about!”
There are several things against PRT acceptance, but the biggest, IMO, is that people don’t grasp what it actually *IS*.
That is not to say that there aren’t problems with implementing a true PRT, but we can find solutions, and once in place, people are going to be doing things they never considered with current transit systems. Examples, putting a PRT stop in assisted living/senior centers. Don’t need a shuttle bus, taxi, or whatever to get to the mall, park, etc. if the a mall has a stop inside ( why not ? ) then don’t even have to worry about going out in the cold. Sending the kids across town, walk them down to the stop, buy them a ticket to Grandma’s place and off they go. Care to do that with a bus? Trying to fit PRT into current rules is ridiculous, there are potential risks involved, but when considered from a total safety aspect, i.e. would we be safer overall in PRT versus bus, car, bike? We would realistically be much better off in a well designed pod system.

Comment on Passenger Terminal Expo 2010 – Summary of PRT Presentations by xfactr

xfactr — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:51:13 +0000

Just saw the Heathrow passenger volume test video. Where was all the luggage you would expect for trips from terminal to car park?

Comment on Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Papers and Presentations at TRB 2010 by Larry Fabian

Larry Fabian — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:53:42 +0000

Thanks for this, Peter. You are great. Your activities are leaving ATRA’s archival website in the dust.

Will you use your cyber muscle to publicize the upcoming Legends workshop? Can we receive registrations and payments through it?

Comment on PRT could help solve rail dilemma by Sidewinder

Sidewinder — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:32:13 +0000

I read today that Heathrow has officially moved from the construction phase to the Operational Testing Phase.

Another small step.

Comment on PRT could help solve rail dilemma by James Anderson Merritt

James Anderson Merritt — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:29:18 +0000

Early this past April, the newspapers were full of stories about NIMBYism toward the plans for High Speed Rail in California, especially on the San Francisco to San Jose route. The public comment period for that route’s EIR was closing, so I hurried to send an email to the CA HSR Authority, suggesting that PRT could solve both the NIMBY and last mile problems. I was surprised learn today that my letter made the cut (along with hundreds of others) for inclusion in the Draft Scoping report. So it is now a matter of public record that at least one person floated the idea of augmenting the HSR system with a PRT aggregator/distributor system. I hope I wasn’t the only one.

Comment on PRT could help solve rail dilemma by Sidewinder

Sidewinder — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:03:00 +0000

I live in California & we have several areas, most notably City of Santa Cruz & City of San Jose, that are actively looking to implement PRT.

It looks to me like getting Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein & the local members of Congress up to speed on the whats & whys of PRT could be very helpful in moving projects forward; particularly if you could get, for example, Larry Page of Google, to lend his credibility as well.