PRT - The Experience
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A good introductory article:

"Some Lessons from the History of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)" (Version 2, August 4, 1996)

http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/history.htm

SYSTEMS IN OPERATION 

Morgantown (1972-2003) (WVU College of Engineering - Boeing):
http://www.wvu.edu/~facserv/prt.htm
http://www.nis.wvu.edu/2002_Releases/prt30.htm
http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/morg.htm
http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/transit/Morgantown/ 

Cabinenlift - (Ministerium für Forschung und Technologie + Demag and MBB (Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm )): http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/cablift.htm

TEST SITES

CVS (1970-1978)
(Toyo Kogyo, Mitsubishi Jukogyo, Tokyo Shibaura Denki, Hitachi Seisakusho, Fujitisu, Sumitomo Denki Kogyo, Nippon Denki and Shin-Nihon Seitetsu. The CVS Project was managed by a team from Tokyo University and MITI. ) http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/cvs1.htm

KRT - Kobe Personal Rapid Transit (ca. 1971-1975) (Shinko Electric Company, Nissho-Iwai and Kobe Steel, Ltd): http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/krt.htm

ROMAG (ca.1968-1976) (Rohr Corporation - Boeing): http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/romag.htm

Cabinentaxi (1970-1983) (Ministerium für Forschung und Technologie + Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm (MBB) and Demag): http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/cabin.htm

Aramis (1967-1987) (Automatisme et Technique, MATRA, RATP- Régis des Transports Parisiens): http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/aramis.htm

Raytheon (1993-2000) (Raytheon + Northern Illinois Transport Authority, Chicago)
http://www.raytheon.com/
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/PRT/PRT2000_Concept.html
foto 1996: http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/rayfoto.htm
'PRT passes reality test' (1998 ) http://www.skyloop.org/cals/rebuttal/07-02-Personal-Transit-Passes-Reality-Test.pdf

ULTra (2003) (University of Bristol) :
http://www.atsltd.co.uk/

Taxi2000 Corp. : SkyWeb Express www.skywebexpress.com

The forerunners of Taxi2000 Corp. was Anderson MacDonald Inc. and then ATS (Automated Transit Systems, Inc), the US representative for the German system Cabinentaxi during 1973-1983. (Raytheon Missile Systems Division decided to license Cabinentaxi but in the end they retreated to core business).
Taxi2000 Corp. was established 1983 and co-operated extensively with the large engineering company Stone & Webster. Together they made an extensive report that mapped technical problems for PRT (1986) ( http://www.shawgrp.com/StoneWebster/engineering_svcs.cfm )
In the 90s, Taxi2000 co-operated extensively with Woo Bo Engineering (through the present employee/partner in Taxi2000, Raymond McDonald) in Korea and the Skycar Project (ca. 1992-1997): http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/skyhm.htm
Taxi2000 Corp. was the the main partner for Raytheon (1993-2000) in the construction of the Marlborough test track (Boston).

In addition Taxi2000’s employees have extensive experience from e.g. NASA, Honeywell. M.I.T.
Taxi2000’s new functioning prototype (2003) is based on the above experience: www.skywebexpress.com

Related systems
- and systems which have not yet acquired the status of being tested in practice, exist in abundance.

See:
Advanced Transit Association : http://advancedtransit.org
Innovative Transportation Technologies (Seattle University) : http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/

Other resource websites for PRT

www.sportaxi.com – Oslo

www.cprt.org - Twin Cities (Minneapolis & St. Paul)
www.skyloop.org - Cincinnati
www.umunum - Santa Cruz
www.acprt.org - Austin
www.tucsonprt.com - Tucson
www.gettherefast.org - Seattle
www.kinetic.seattle.wa.us/getonboard.html - Seattle
www.seattlelifestyle.tripod.com/cgi-bin/CommonSense.htm - Seattle

 

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