Deployment Studies and Examples

The most extensive studies, to date, are marked with an asterisk (*)

The largest PRT application plans known have been for two Indian cities, Amritsar and Gurgaon

Dualmode

• Boston Metropolitan Area *
• Puget Sound Region (Seattle and vicinity - academic)*
• Copenhagen (from a planning document, in Danish)*
• Dual Mode Vehicle and Infrastructure Alternatives Analysis, Texas Transportation Institute, April, 2008 *
• Proposed System Design Requirements for Dual Mode Transportation, April, 2008 *

Maglev

• Baltimore-Washington *
• Pittsburgh *

Monorail

• Kuala Lumpur*
• Las Vegas *
• Niagara Falls Peoplemover study
• Seattle *

PRT/PAT installations and test tracks

• ULTra PRT's test facility in Cardiff and first installation at Healthrow Airport in the U.K.
• Vectus PRT test track in Upsalla, Sweden (movie)

PRT/PAT (Studies of downtown and central areas)

• Alaska
• Amritsar, India *
• Bellevue, Washington (academic)*
• Boston Central Area
• Chicago, Ill.
• Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Sky Loop Project *
• Gurgaon, India *
• Minneapolis, Minnesota (Councilman Zimmerman's concept)* .
• Palo Alto, California (Stanford Research Park)*
• Stockholm, Sweden

PRT/PAT (Suburban, small area studies, airports, feeder/distributor/circulators links to mass transit stations)

• Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. *
• Amberglen, Portland region, Oregon
• West Village (near Kansas City, Kansas)
• ULTra PRT circulator presentation, Atlanta, Georgia
• Bremen Central Hospital complex *
• Central Florida Example (academic)
• Dulles Airport Corridor in Northern Virginia *
• Emeryville, California
• Irvine, California
• Kungens Kurva area, Sweden *
• Rosemont, Illinois, demonstration project *
• Stanford Research Park, California*
• San Diego, California
• Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA (good animation provided)
• National University of Singapore - Monic PRT
•  SeaTac, Washington (International Airport and Vicinity Circulator, Major Investment Study)*
• Baltimore Washington International Airport study
• Bath (U.K.) design competition only - ULTra's submission 
• Greenville County (S. Carolina) Economic Development Corporation: PRT Evaluation, 76 pp *
• ATRA's Lowson Award paper, PRT Application in Retrofitting Edge Cities - Macquarie Park Case Study in Australia

PRT/PAT (Areawide studies)

•  Göthenburg, Sweden *
• New Jersey (academic study)
• New Jersey PRT Study (done for state legislature) *
• Hagen, Germany *
• Hamburg, Germany *
• Harlow, U.K.
• Los Angeles, California *
• Las Vegas, Nevada (draft,42 pp) *
• Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area*
• Daventry, U.K. *
• Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Santa Cruz, California* 
• Södertälje and Uppsala, Sweden *  --  Södertälje graphics
• Masdar, Abu Dhabi *
• Eskiltuna, Sweden (academic thesis presentation) *
• Test city in California, integrating PRT and Mass Transit for better areawide transit service *

Other PRT/PAT Deployment Studies

• PRT Network Design for a Major Activity Center with High Speed Rail Station (academic) *
• University of Washington, Seattle (academic)

 

Last modified: June 08, 2017