PRT Consulting Press Releases

11/28/2010
Sustainable Transit Enters Service in Sustainable City

2getthere’s Masdar personal rapid transit (PRT) system today became the world’s first PRT system to enter permanent public service. The system has 10 passenger vehicles serving 2 passenger stations and 3 freight vehicles serving 3 freight stations, linked by one mile of guideway. It provides 18 hours of service on a daily basis to the Masdar Institute of Technology in the zero-carbon new city of Masdar in the UAE. While ULTra’s PRT system at Heathrow Airport recently entered limited public service, this was for a four-week trial period which has now ended, thus ceding the race to be first to 2getthere. ULTra is expected to enter permanent public service early in 2011.

BAA PRT Passenger Terminal
Masdar City Passenger Terminal PRT is a system of driverless electric cars that could combat climate change by:

• Boosting transit ridership
• Reducing greenhouse gases, oil dependency and energy use
• Saving lives, money and time

Peter Muller, President of PRT Consulting, Inc., the only consultancy of professional engineers and planners specializing in PRT, said, “If both systems provide the flawless service recently demonstrated by ULTra, PRT could become the sustainable transit system of choice.”

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10/19/2010
Sustainable Transit System Takes Off at Heathrow Airport

The world's first modern personal rapid transit (PRT) system entered public service at Heathrow International Airport, near London, earlier today (October 19, 2010). A second system, at Masdar City in Abu Dahbi, should enter public service later this year.

BAA PRT Passenger Terminal PRT is a system of driverless electric cars that could combat climate change by:

• Boosting transit ridership
• Reducing greenhouse gases, oil dependency and energy use
• Saving lives, money and time

Peter Muller, President of PRT Consulting, Inc., the only consultancy of professional engineers and planners specializing in PRT, said, “This is the most significant milestone in PRT history, since the Morgantown PRT-like system went into public service, in West Virginia, in 1975.”

For decades, people have imagined a transit system that takes them non-stop to where they want to go, in seated comfort and without waiting. Finally, the world will get to see if PRT can deliver on this promise.

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