Research and Development Activities

• Research report from the Center for Environment, Energy and Transportation Innovations at Texas A&M University on Dual Mode Transportation 
• Advanced Transit Systems Research Program , 1994-97, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Advanced Transport Group , University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
• Automated Peoplemover Standards Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Cooperative Vehicle-Highway Automation Systems website
• Cost Comparisons between Bus, PRT, LRT and Metro/rail
• Federal Transit Administration's Urban Maglev Research and Development Program
• Automated Highway System Research Activities
• Innovative Transportation Technologies - listing of U.S. Patents
• ULTra receives two reseach project awards
• Extending PRT Capabilities (more speed and capacity), by Ingmar Andreasson of Sweden, June, 2009
• Paul Hoffman's PRT presentation at the '07 TRB meeings, "Personal Rapid Transit, Strategies for Advancing the State of the Industry, Washington, D.C., January, 2007 (requires PowerPoint reader), 7 megs
• Video of the Vectus PRT test track in operation in Uppsala, Sweden (clip from Swedish TV, with English translation)

• FTA report on low speed maglev research program - focused on lessons learned, March, 2009, 47 pp

• TRB paper on a new approach to solving the empty PRT vehicle redistribution problem

  
   

   

   

   

   

Last modified: April 15, 2012