Illustration of a Phased Deployment of Personal Rapid Transit System for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area

During the early 1970's, Professor J. Edward Anderson designed an areawide PRT network for the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. He showed how is could be started in the downtown areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul and then expanded in eight phases until it covered the then-urbanized part of the metropolitan area. The lines represent one-way guideway and the arrows indicate the direction of travel. Because of their large size, only the illustrations for Phases 1, 2, 5 and 8 are included as is a page that shows all four smaller images together.

• Phase 1 (initial system)
• Phase 2
• Phase 5
• Phase 8 (largely completed but further expansion possible)

These illustrations (and illustrations for Phases 3, 4, 6 and 7) were developed by the Task Force on New Concepts in Urban Transportation at the University of Minnesota. They were published in Personal Rapid Transit II, Audio-Visual Library Services, University of Minnesota, 1974 (as the Proceedings of the 1973 International Conference on Personal Rapid Transit. For more details, contact Professor Anderson via his Skyweb Express website (formerly called Taxi 2000).

Last modified: November 13, 2003