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The following is a reverse chronological list of news items and additions and changes to this website: 2005 to present
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July, 2009

Link to new Sky Tram website - a suspended mass transit concept that uses old airplane fuselages

June, 2009

Mott MacDonald appointed lead designer for Masdar infrastructure

 Boeing's Personal Rapid Transit history

China develops low speed maglev system for applications within urban areas

Link to paper about  implementation the PRT plan for the Masdar eco-city: Introducing PRT to the Sustainable City, by Lohmann and Guala - a very extensive description of the plan, 15 pp.

Link to Brick Wall Stops and PRT, by Richard Gronning

Link to a Summary of the 15 PRT papers presented at the 12th International APM '09 conference in Atlanta, GA,
June '09, by Peter Muller

PRT Plans in several Swedish Cities, by G. Tegnér, extensive review of current PRT planning studies in Sweden, 21 pp
Links to two additional analytical papers regarding PRT in Swedish Cities, by G. Tegnér

Extending PRT Capabilities, by Ingmar Andreasson -
explores ways to increase the capacity and speed of PRT

Link to the official blog of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Ray La Hood

May, 2009

ULTra PRT circulator network presentation for the Perimeter Center major activity center in Atlanta, Georgia

New website for sustainable transport interests: Thecityfix - global scope

      Air Car update - inventor Guy Negre with Airpod compressed air-powered cars

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

The Tipping Point? - PP presentation at the Heritage Foundation, May 13, '09, by transportation analyst Alan E. Pisarski

Conference announcement: Cities for Mobility, Stuttgart, Germany, June 14-16, 2009

Open PRT specification project: Rethinking PRT design - a blog

Conference report: , April, '09, PRT at Heathrow Airport, by Peter Muller

Conference announcement: International Conference on Sustainable Urban Transport and Environment, Paris, June 24-26, '09

Link to an ATRA report about the Carbon-Free Mobility conference held in Oakland, CA,

Link to PP presentation from America 2050 - Visualizing the Future - a national megaregional-based transport vision

Updated description of the PRTsim software system for planning, designing and analyzing the operational attributes of PRT networks

Major update of ULTra PRT website: information about Heathrow airport project, proposals in San Jose, Santa Cruz and Alameda Point, implementation customization, details on vehicles, guideway, stations, control,  capacity, environmental benefits, safety certification, solar, ATS staff, partners and history

April, 2009

  Link to a RUF concept that makes use of PUMA-like vehicles

Three new marketing presentations from Megarail: Low carbon alternative to traditional Texas turnpikes and Commuter Rail proposal for the Dallas-Ft. Worth region (applicable to other large metropolitan regions), Near-term I-25 & I-70 Mountain Corridor Solution (Colorado).

APM '09 conference PreProgram now  available: Connecting People, Connecting Places, Connecting Modes

Proposal for a solar-powered new town in SW Florida at large Babcock Ranch site - includes electric transportation

Link to some good PUMA information at Segway's website

General Motors announces its Personal Urban Mobility and Access (PUMA) concept (a joint venture with Segway)

Link to new English version of Schmid Peoplemover website

Conference announcement: City Mobil, Finland, May 8, '09 - program info in English

March, 2009

   PRT conference at Heathrow Airport in April , 21-23 '09 - Final Program and Registration Information

Link to historical document: Lea Transit Compendium on PRT, 46 pages, 1975 (includes 11 system descriptions)

Link to historical document: Lea Transit Compendium: PRT Supplement, 21 pages, 1975 (updates on two systems)

Link to Intransition magazine - look for article entitled "Unconventional Transportation: Reinventing the Wheel", Winter '09, pp 11-18

Photo update on Magplane project in Inner Mongolia - construction of a maglev coal transport system is underway

Link to a new Sky Taxi website, mostly in Russian but has some content in English

Link to a 60 minute video on Transrapid maglev history and Shanghai installation - very instructive

Press release:  MIT to take on global transportation challenges - will generate 21st century solutions

February, 2009

Link to planned research program of the Federal Transit Administration, Fiscal Years 09-13

President Obama's Urban Policy agenda

Link to: The Transit Wire - information about emerging transit technologies

Japanese HSST urban maglev brochure used in Honolulu, HI, now available on-line

Abu Dhabi public transport plan revealed - includes three PRT projects

Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society? , New York Review of Books

Preliminary program: Carbon-Free Mobility conference, Oakland, CA, March 6, 2009

 PRT study by Ingmar Andreasson for Södertälje, Sweden - contains superb graphics

January, 2009  

Link to new website for the Multi-flow Air Car

SkyTran gets letter of interest form Marin County, California, supervisors, regarding a possible project

Link to new website for Vehicle-Infrastructure-Integration (VII) activities

Conference announcements: Carbon-Free Mobility, March '09, Oakland, CA and ATRA Heathrow, Heathrow Airport, April, '09 

Link to Newsletter #5 which provides an update on the City Mobil projects in the EU

Automated Electric Transportation objectives at Utah State University elab

Presentations at the ATRA (Advanced Transit Association) 2009 Technix meeting are now available on-line

Car-free Masdar City will run on green cars  

PRT gets another chance at life, article in Venture magazine

Link to paper by Dr. Mogge of CH2M Hill about the Masdar PRT project

Link to National Journal Transportation Blog, contributions by Expert Insiders

Photos of Masdar PRT vehicle from the World Energy Forum exhibition in Abu Dhabi 

Article about Masdar, located in Abu Dhabi - site of the first areawide PRT application in the world

Transforming America's Transportation Future, Automated Electrified Transportation (AET) vision paper

Virginia DOT report to the legislature on the status of PRT systems

Urbanaut monorail project underway in Incheon, Korea

Rail Meets the Road with the TriTrack   http://tinyurl.com/bqh5fe
 

December, 2008  

Eulogy to Dr.  Jack H. Irving, PRT pioneer at the Aerospace Corporation,  by J Edward Anderson

New Vectus PRT videos on YouTube; one is a new animation, the other shows operations in the snow, in Uppsala, Sweden

Conference announcement: 12th International Conference on Automated Peoplemovers, Atlanta, GA, May31-June 3, 2009

Link to website that describes an AirCar venture

Link to information about City of San Jose's interests in an Automated Transportation Network

Link to the EU's #1 web portal on urban transport and mobility - now in its 10th year

Call for Papers: PRT at LHR (Heathrow airport) conference, April 21-23, '09

Link to illustration of several innovative systems for getting around town in the future: Forbes magazine, December 22, 2008 issue

Link to a collection of recent ULTra PRT pictures at Heathrow Airport in the U.K.

Link to a new Russian website that illustrates PRT-Zest and Tram-Zest concepts - both have dualmode capabilities

NICHES + Newsletter: New and Innovative Concepts for Helping European Transport Sustainability Towards Implementation,
December, 2008, Issue 1.

EU Video: The Hands-Free Future for Transport, 8 minutes, includes City Mobil and Heathrow Airport

MonoMobile and Monofreight Newsletter #4 - describes new development funding prospects

Link to new company called Fastransit - working with Applied Levitation (see videos) on a switchable Maglev GRT/PRT concept

November, 2008 

Florida Solar Energy Center to support solar-powered monorail system (SkyTrain) development (press release)

Conference announcement: Intermodes, February 4-5, 2009, Brussels, Belgium

Link to: Mobility on Demand: Future Transportation in Cities, Smart Cities, MIT Media Lab, June, 2008

MIT Mobility on Demand Implementation Study Reports, 2008: Florence, Lisbon, Shanghai and San Francisco

Entire SeaTac Major Investment Study is now available on-line - resulted in a PRT network being selected as the preferred alternative

New website for PRT International launched - J. Edward Anderson is Managing Director.

What happened at the PodCar conference in Ithaca, NY, September, 2008?

October, 2008 

Automated Transit Network Demonstration Project Request for Interest and follow-up Q&A, San Jose, California

Maglev 2008 conference program now available, December 15-18, 2008, San Diego, California

Santa Cruz, California, solicits RFQs for a PRT study, pre-submission conference October 30, proposals due Nov. 13, '08

MegaRail prototype vehicle video now available on YouTube (click here for background presentation)

Table of Contents for the Daventry PRT Scoping Study,  and link to the entire document, 160+ pp.

Daventry District Council (U.K.) issues Prior Information Notice for procurement of a PRT pilot project

September, 2008

Link to City Gondola website - suspended GRT concept

   Link to Beamways website, a suspended PodCar system under development in Sweden 

Link to SkyTrolley website, suspended bus, good video available (DVD or YouTube), under development in British Columbia, Canada

Link to Metrail monorail website - low cost monorail system.

Link to pictures of  Rotem's Daejeon maglev monorail 1-km demo site, in Korea. Inchon International Airport project being planned for 2012.

Automated Road Vehicles website

Korean urban maglev project described in Railway Gazette article

Update of the ATI - Advanced Guideway System website

  1978 video of 1/10 scale PRT model developed by the Aerospace Corporation

August, 2008 

Some details on the Dual Mode Vehicle (road and rail) development effort in Japan

Conference Announcement: Monorailex 2008, How to Move the People, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 10-11, '08

  Work begins on the Monometro suspended monorail application in Saudi Arabia

International Seminar: Automation for Urban Transport, Sept. 19 '08, La Rochelle, France

PodCar City conference newsletter-2 now available

2008 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) vehicle demand and systems analyis update study released by the FTA

Self-funding Commuter Rail that Really Works, a presentation by MegaRail Transportation

Beyond Oil, Transforming Transportation - Agenda for the Annual TransTech Conference, September 4-5, '08 - Microsoft Event Center, Redmond, WA

MicroRail passenger & cargo monorail/LRT/BRT + freeway alternative - presentation

20th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives, 15-18 December, '08
San Diego, California

Offer of Participation for novel German maglev system - Details at website, currently only in German

July, 2008

New PRT website - concept only, features vehicles operating on the street on rails

Futrex System21 monobeam system offered for sale

MISTER suspended PRT system investor offering document now available

Transportation for America, new coalition of advocates for transportation improvements

Pod Car City conference newsletter, #1, July 25, 2008

European Transport Conference 2008, October 6-8,  Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands

Seminar announcement: Smart Campus Mobility using PRT, Harvard Graduate School of Design, August 22, 2008

Robosoft delivers three driverless vehicles using autonomous GPS guidance - includes YouTube video

15th ITS World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, New York City, November 16-20, 2008: ITS Connections: Saving Time, Saving Lives: Conference Program details, 80 pages. Technical sessions and demonstrations planned.

12th International Conference on Automated Peoplemovers, May 31-June 3, 2009, Atlanta, Georgia - call for Abstracts and Program Information

Hydrogen: Hope or Hype? - Design News Special Report

News regarding Swedish SkyCab PRT activities

New BAA Heathrow ULTra PRT video on YouTube 

Scope of National Academy of Sciences study: American's Energy Future, report with transportation content, final report expected in January, 2009

 Guideway Transportation System with Integrated Magnetic Levitation Suspension, Stabilization and Propulsion Functions, USPTO Patent Application 20080148991

Personal Rapid Transit: Preempting the Need for Oil in Urban Transport, by Bill James

Futuropolis 2058: Creating Sustainable Urban Environments Through Innovation, Singapore, October 21-22, 2008

June, 2008 

Some details about the Masdar eco-city in Abu Dhabi, now under construction

Call for Papers: Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an Urgent Challenge, Marseille, France, June 2009

Dual Mode System Design "Absolutes", by Kirston Henderson of MegaRail, formulated initially in 2000, with additions in 2008 

Proposed System Design Requirements for a Dual Mode Transport System - derived from the CEETI study of dual mode transport

Low Carbon Vehicle development to receive major boost with funds from the U.K. government - 13 projects currently underway,
three more planned
(press release)  For overview, go to the Technology Strategy Board > Innovation Platforms > Low Carbon Vehicles

May, 2008

RUF publishes an Investor Prospectus - good summary of current status  

Full report: Dual Mode Vehicle and Infrastructure Alternatives Analysis, by Christine Ehlig-Economides and Jim Longbottom, Texas A&M University and Texas Transportation Institute, April, 2008. 136 pp.  Also available on-line is the Executive Summary and Table of Contents
These latter two pages also provide CEETI's  definition of Dual Mode, a link to a video that illustrates one type of dual mode system and a link to descriptions of a wide variety of other systems currently being developed around the world.

Link to a new Dual Mode concept called Railbus, being developed in the Netherlands

PRT Activism: Strategies and Attitudes Toward Conventional Transit, by Nathan Koren, 5/2008, 21 pp

Fundamentals of Personal Rapid Transit (the complete book), by Jack Irving, et al, 1977, now available on-line

17th Annual ULI Conference: Developing Master-Planned Communities, Washington, D.C., June 12-13, 2008 

Simulated fly-through of Masdar eco-city, with NPR article, by Foster+Partners, 5 minute video

PRT Applicability to Sustainability, by Peter Muller

April, 2008 

Link to European Local Transport Information Service - aims to be the #1 portal on clean urban transport in Europe

Cities-for-Mobility publishes first eMagazine, contains lots of relevant articles

Link to a website about folding bicycles - deals with first/last mile problem

New Aerotrain website - provides history of this effort by Rohr Industries in early 1970s to develop a tracked air cushion  vehicle
(TACV) for 60 passengers with a speed of 150 mph.

Conference Announcement: Opportunities in Transportation Infrastructure, Washington, D.C., May 14-16, '08

Scomi Transportation Systems now marketing its second generation monorail to SE Asia and the Middle East 

2008 Pocket Guide to transportation statistics, now available on-line

International Transport Statistics Database website launched, includes all G8 nations and others

A New Business Model for Urban Transportation, illustrates a transit utility concept using a PRT application example in the Dulles Airport Corridor in Northern Virginia, by Paul Hoffman, Booz-Allen-Hamilton, January '08, Power Point file, 14 megs

Conference Announcement: Cities-for-Mobility, World Congress, June 1-4, 2008, Stuttgart, Germany, English version

March, 2008

Program of the National Hydrogen Association conference, Sacramento, California, March 30-April 3, 2008

Link to an Automotive X-Prize competition blog for current information

Conference Announcement: The Pod Car City: Sustainable Transportation, Sept. 14-16, 2008, Ithaca, New York

New MegaRail presentation describes their Commuter Rail product - has dualmode capability

MegaRail's proposal for the Trans Texas Corridor concept

Relaunch of Intransition magazine: Transportation Planning, Practice and Programs

Link to the Transport Research Knowledge Center in the EU

February, 2008  

3rd Annual Texas Transportation Forum, Austin, Texas, April 20-22, 2008 (includes session on the "future")

Link to a large and excellent collection of innovative transport videos at a website in Norway

Added new subsecond-headways page at ITT website

Magplane signs $1.9 M design contract with Inner Mongolia (see Latest News for press release)  

ULtra PRT/Heathrow project update, includes several ground and one aerial photo of built guideway

High Tech Monorails - 2 disc DVD set now available, world wide coverage of operational systems, includes Shanghai Transrapid maglev

Conference announcement: Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure Systems, March 31 - 1 April, Amsterdam

Link to "Some History of 32 PRT Simulation Programs", new paper by J.E. Anderson

Aerobus gains final approval for completion of high profile project in Weihai, China

Link to a PRT-focused website based in New Zealand

January, 2008

Link to a paper entitled A PRT/Airport Automated Peoplemover (APM) Comparison, 9 pp, by Peter Muller

Comparative Visualization: PRT & Conventional Mass Transit, by Peter Muller (Power Point presentation, reader needed)

Link to a small electric vehicle concept from Switzerland, called Acabion  

Conference announcement: Maglev 2008, 15-18 December '08, San Diego, California

Forum 2008: Transport and Energy: The Challenge of Climate Change, Leipzig Conference Centre, 20-30 May 2008

MagneMotion receives $6.9 M award from FTA to continue urban maglev development work (press release)

Using PRT for goods movements - concepts and illustrations 

Update on ULTra PRT installation at Heathrow Airport, includes construction pictures and videos  

Link to new Australian Skyrail monorail website  

Links to two excellent student project reports; one deals with the design of RUF junctions, the other deals with the design of a RUF route. Both are very impressive examples of what talented and motivated students with good direction can do.
 
 
PRT - the connective tissue of better mobility, by J. Schneider


Link to a new RUF movie, mostly animation but also shows prototype vehicle in operation

December, 2007

2nd Annual City Logistics Expo, Padova, Italy, 27-29 November 2008

Transportation blog initiatied by French student - contributions and comments welcome

New contribution to the Dualmode debate page: An Interface Standard for a General Transport System, by Bengt Gustafsson

New contribution to PRT debate page: Fitting PRT into an Existing Multimodal Environment, by Richard Gronning

New book entitled Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil, by Gilbert and Perl, Table of Contents, forthcoming, January, 2008

Severe shortfalls in current public transport - and why podcars may make the difference, by Göran Tegnér

November, 2007  

Transportation Research Board publication: Intelligent Transportation Systems and Vehicle-Highway Automation, 2007

New brochure from Vectus PRT now available on-line

HOVER - High Occupancy Vehicles on Express Routes  -- ride sharing concept from New Zealand

Link to Cities-for-Mobility website - a global network of cities dealing with urban mobility issues

Link to A General Transport System - paper from the Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis (SIKA)

Link to Automated Transport Systems website - describes preferred attributes of a dualmode system

October, 2007

TRB Session on Dual-Mode Transportation: Benefits and Challenges

Link to City Mobil project website - a large scale effort in the EU to develop automated urban transport systems   

Videos of presentations at the October PodCar conference in Uppsala now available on-line

Updated SkyWeb Express website now available

Vectus PRT Quicktime movie that shows one vehicle being operated on Uppsala test track

BBC CyberCar demo video from the Daventry PRT conference

Updated, excellent,  Bubbles and Beams PRT video from Sweden on YouTube

Conference: Sustainability - the Future of Transportation, Anaheim, CA, Dec. 2-5, 2007

Magplane to build maglev pipeline in Mongolia

September, 2007

Book: Transit Systems Theory by J. Edward Anderson, 1978, now available on-line, 20 MB download

Announcement: Transportation Research Board, Annual Meeting, January 13-17, Washington, D.C.

ATRA 2008 Call for Papers for January '08 meeting (date changed to January 12)

Major feasibility study from SkyWeb Express - includes results from several  large scale simulations - 43 pp

National Geographic video report on Transrapid Maglev development and initial application in China 

New ULTra PRT animation on YouTube

Two new videos now available for Ollie Mikosza's MISTER PRT system from Poland

Updated Tubeway website from Germany, now features thin film PV for solar energy collection

New marketing brochure from SkyWeb Express: Product Introduction

Updated invitation to The Podcar City conference and details of the conference program, October 1-2, Upsalla, Sweden

CargoRail Port Operating Plan presentation for Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles assessment, 9/2007, 10 pp.

Two PRT articles are published in the September issue of Transport Times in the U.K. > click on Current Issue

August, 2007

Conference announcement: 1st World Forum on Sustainable Mobility, Nantes, France, December 9-12, 2007

Austin, TX,  inventor of TriTrack to be included in the Automotive X Prize competition

Update for the Flyda monobeam technology - patents have expired and are now in the public domain

National Automated Highway System Consortium Reports from 1997 now available online -
includes details from San Diego automated vehicle technologies at Demo '97.

July, 2007

New System 21 blog, illustrations, technical details and general discussion,  by Larry Edwards

Conference Announcement - Daventry Transport, September 26, 2007 (located in the U.K.)

Compendium of Innovative Transport Design, Planning and Operational Simulation Software Packages - update

PRT Standards conference, Minneapolis (Fridley), MN, September 19, 2007, sponsored by ATRA

PRT simulation software course by Ed Anderson now available

June, 2007 

Collaboration among Mutually Dependent Players is Required to Achieve Large Scale Change in a Ground Transportation System, by Jim Longbottom

Development of the Containerization Industry as a Close Analogy for PRT Advocates, by Nathan Koren

Video that explains Masdar Initiative in Abu Dhabi, includes PRT circulation system > go to media centre > video files

PRT article in Business 2.0 magazine, June 1, issue, now posted at CNN website (it's mostly about the ULTra PRT project at Heathrow Airport)

Customer Response to a Dual Mode Personal Rapid Transit System, MBA Thesis by Yonas Jongkind, Simon Fraser University, 2006, 74 pp.

International PRT Conference, October 1-2, 2007, Uppsala, Sweden - information now available

Report on the Feasibility of PRT in Santa Cruz, California, by Jeral Poskey  

New eco-city project in Abu Dhabi will be auto-free and use a PRT technology for internal circulation > go to NEWS, page 3

Applicability of Tax Increment Financing or Business Improvement Districts to Building Personal Rapid Transit, by Jeral Poskey

Video from Swedish TV showing Vectus PRT test facility in operation, with English translation

New dualmode animation from Qwiklane, 9+ minutes

May, 2007 

Bubbles and Beams - a delightful PRT/dualmode animation from Sweden

Paper on linear motor design for close and secure control of numerous vehicles on a guideway now available

New website: Next generation of mass transit - NOWAIT Transit of Sweden 

Report on a PRT seminar held in Luleå, Sweden

Call for Papers, 2nd Annual National Urban Freight Conference 2007, December 5-7, Long Beach, California 

Call for Papers, Chinese conference on Urban Transport, Beijing, August 2-4, 2007

New Jersey PRT Study Final Report released, 144 pp, pdf format

New PRT system concept, called Y-Rail from Austria

April, 2007

City of Luleå, Sweden, encouraged to consider a PRT application (located 940 km north of Stockholm)

PRT consulting firm launches new website, focused on PRT applications in So. California.

Japanese Dual Mode Vehicle,  works on roads and rail - YouTube video 

TEXXI - the taxi you text with a cellular phone for a shared ride

Conference announcement and call for papers: 11 th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for
Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED): June 18-21, 2007;  Montreal, Quebec, Canada


Call for Papers, Challenges and Opportunities Towards More Sustainable Transportation, Taipei, 4-6 December 2007

Marketing Strategy of the HSST Maglev System

Cabintaxi video now available on YouTube

March, 2007

Recent Q&A session with J. Edward Anderson, regarding Personal Rapid Transit

Urban Life with PRT - ATRA's Second Morgantown, WV, Seminar, May 4-5, 2007

Where Transportation is Going: Transportation in the CLIOS Era, Seminar by Prof. Joseph Sussman, MIT, at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

Future by Design - website includes cities, energy, construction, transportation, space ideas, by Jacque Fresco - Futurist

Ideawicket - Open Source Innovation Portal for novel ideas, designs, innovations and inventions; transportation category is provided

ITS America Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, June 4-6, 2007, 35 page conference brochure now available provides program details

February, 2007

Toy maglev train video on YouTube - in German, high temperature superconductor, simple device, absolutely amazing.

Call for Papers: Fifth International Symposium on Underground Freight Transportation by Capsule Pipelines and other Tube/Tunnel Systems, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, March, 2008

Link to Edmontonians for PRT website (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

Paul Hoffman's PRT presentation at the TRB meeings, "Personal Rapid Transit, Strategies for Advancing the State of the Industry, Washington, D.C., January, 2007 (requires PowerPoint reader), 7 megs

Illustrative PRT network design for Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, by Eric Baumgartner

S.A.T project features small vehicles that can move horizontally, vertically and on a sloped guideway.

The State of Urban Transportation, by J. Edward Anderson (written in 1970 but the problems are still the same, only much worse).

Transporting Freight Containers by Pneumatic Capsule Pipeline (PCP): Port Security and Other Issues, TRB paper by Henry Liu, July 2006 

Draft report on the feasibility of Personal Rapid Transit in Santa Cruz, California, 52 pp  (listed under Transportation Planning Program header)

TEXXI - the taxi you text with a cellular phone for a shared ride - operating now in Liverpool and San Francisco.  A 13 MB video
is available that describes how the system is operated at: http://www.texxi.com/pro/texxi.nsf/videoviewer?OpenPage&video=driversbys

High Capacity Personal Rapid Transit, Rationale, Attributes, Status, Economics, Benefits, by J. Edward Anderson, January '07, 20 pp

January, 2007 

Preliminary Proposal for a PRT Network for Daventry, U.K. (press release)

Link to MegaRail's updated and extended CargoRail presentation to the Gateway Council of Governments Board of Directors and two COG Cargo Transportation Study Groups for Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, January 17, 2007

Link to a paper entitled "Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design: Hacienda Business Park" (California), by Steve Raney

Link to a study focused on the design of an extensive PRT network that could assist the solution of some transportation and air pollution problems in the Melbourne region

Link to Open Source (OScar) project website - a group working on the design of a simple and functional auto concept
to spread mobility, using Open Source principles

JPods PRT signs agreement with Swiss company to commercialize its automated transit concept in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
-- Link to JPods website

December, 2006

Link to updated CargoRail presentation regarding Port of Long Beach transport problems

Link to complete list of books and other published materials by J. Edward Anderson, 1953-2006, most dealing with various issues regarding Personal Rapid Transit (PRT).  Copies are available, upon request, from the author.

November, 2006

Magtube adds a PRT capability to its product line - link to a paper presented at a recent maglev conference in Dresden, Germany

Link to excellent RUF status report, 2006

Korean PRT video now available on YouTube

Updated website for the U.S. Airtrain technology 

MegaRail Cost Story - Why MegaRail Cost is so much lower that other elevated systems

Magplane Withdraws Financing Agreement with ShangShan/Timsho, (see Latest News)

Proceedings from Maglev2006 conference available on-line, Dresden, Germany, September 13-15, 2006

October, 2006 

Puget Sound Urban Region: Land Use Changes, Dispersed Travel Pattern, Planned Rail Transit Solution

MegaRail proposal for the I-70 Mountain Corridor project in Colorado, 2.5 megs, 24 pp, pdf format

ATS (ULTra PRT) seeks a new CEO, 6 figure salary, 7 figure benefits

Update from Palle Jensen on RUF dualmode activities, August 2006, 102 pp, pdf format.

Finnish Automated People and Goods Movement (APGM) feasibility study now available on-line, 6.8 mbytes, 78 pp., 2005. Also
see the Techvilla webpage for current information

General Atomics Urban Maglev Program Status, 2006, 4 pp, pdf format

September, 2006  
 
Call for Papers - 29th International Air Transport conference, Irving, TX, Aug 19-22, 2007 

Anglo-Dutch cooperation to target eco-friendly dirverless bus opportunities (press release)

Using the Automobile and Wi-Fi, Wi-MAX Networks to Reduce Traffic Congestion, by Robert Behnke

Conference Announcement: Next Steps for PRT, November 17-18, 2006, Santa Cruz, California

Magnemotion closes $3M in Mezzanine Round of Funding (press release) 

Link to the new CityMobil project website - a 28-member consortium in the EU working on innovative transport technologies

Link to the Robosoft website in France, which includes information about RoboCAB and RoboRide and provides a link to a paper
entitled Automated Transportation: State-of-the-Art, 2005 

Update on Automated Guided Transit technologies and applications in Japan

Two new illustrations of the Puget Pullway dualmode concept now available

Dualmode study begins at CEETI, with funding from the Texas DOT, see proposal  for details, 18 pp, pdf format

Magna-Force updates and expands  LEVX website, includes several animations

Book review: Future Tech: Innovations in Transportation, by Paul Schilperoord, published in August, 2006, 192 pp.

Smart Jitney/Community-Enhanced Transit Systems, by Park Woodworth and Bob Behnke - Plan C uses advanced wireless communications technologies to provide door-to-door service

Linear Chuo Shinkansen Project, superconduction maglev train for 500 kph travel in Japan

August, 2006

Additional Taxi 2000 shares now available for sale, contact them directly for details. 

Magnemotion granted U.S. patent for its magnetic levitation system (press release)


New PRT website now available - MonicPRT being developed in Singapore - has some unique features, 20 megabyte video is featured. Additionally, an extensive cost and revenue analysis is available as is a preliminary PRT network design for the National University of Singapore, 4 megabytes, pdf format. 1 Singapore dollar = 0.633252 USD.

Revised and updated  e-book is now available on-line. The Revolutionary Dualmode Transportation System  (REV), by Francis D. Reynolds, 22 chapters plus supporting materials

 Basic details of organizations and people who are currently known to be working on large diameter capsule pipeline projects, and the projects they are working on. 'Large' diameter is considered to be approximately one foot or greater. The tables show an overview of current interests by technology (PCP, Pneumatic Capsule Pipelines; HCP, Hydraulic Capsule Pipelines; EMCP, ElectroMagnetic (Linear Induction and similar) Capsule Pipelines; UFT, Underground Freight Transport - not specifically capsule pipelines, but related), and the current status of the work (if known).

July, 2006

MegaRail's presentation to the Gateway Council of Governments regarding an application of a CargoRail
and CargoTram system to serve the freight movement and air pollution reduction needs of the Port of Long Beach, California, pdf format, 21 pages

Envisioning a Desirable Personal Transport System for the Future, by larens imanyuel

June, 2006

Link to weblog by Prof. David Levinson, U of Minnesota, called the Transportationist

Link to the website of Paul Schilperoord, author of the forthcoming book, entitled Future Tech: Innovations in Transportation

Link to an updated website for the AirTrain transportation technology

May, 2006

Link to the website for the MISTER suspended PRT concept, from Poland

9th International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technology in Transportation, August 13-16, Chicago
http://www.asce.org/conferences/aatt2006/

Link to paper entitled The Case for Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), by Joerg Schweitzer, et al

April, 2006 

Discovery Channel in Canada posts video segment on the Danish RUF system: for more details see
the RUF website at www.ruf.dk

Update on Vectus PRT test facility activities in Upsalla, Sweden

Link to Mobilicity website - prototype vehicle under development in the U.K..

Magplane obtains $500M in development funding from China - see News at their website for details

A Democratic Approach to Land Use and Transportation in the Albuquerque Metropolitan Region, by Ian Ford

March, 2006

Link to new U.S.-based maglev website, includes world-wide coverage

Urbanaut releases new and improved website  

Call for Papers - 11th International Hong Kong Society of Transportation Studies Conference, 9-11 December, 2006, Hong Kong, deadline for abstracts is April 15, 2006

Aerobus wins big Chinese contract - see Press Release for details - it's a large vehicle suspended from cables, previously built in Switzerland

New blog focused on transportation issues in Asia - Urban Transport Issues Asia

Link to a new website for the Amotion concept from the U.K. - a group rapid transit technology with a variety of possible passenger and freight options - includes several videos.

Link to updated SkyCab PRT website - English version - the company is located in Sweden

Call for Abstracts - 11th International Conference on Automated Peoplemovers, Vienna, Austria, April 22-25, 2007

Link to a paper entitled Assessing the Station and Access System Design Requirements of a Small Magplane System for Intercity Travel, by J. Schneider
February, 2006

Trade Show announcement: Eco Expo, Beijing, China, November 28-30, 2006, program includes sessions on transportation trends and futures

Conference announcement: Future Urban Transport, Goteburg, Sweden, April 2-5, 2006

MIT Media Lab's City Car project information. It's a stackable, smart car, electric propulsion, designed for high density urban applications.

Transporting Communities into 2030, Melbourne, AU., March 1-2, 2006 - Conference Announcement (see dramatic before/after picture of Seoul, Korea freeway removal project on Brochure Cover)

January, 2006

New magazine, called Transurban, first issue due in September, 2006. It will  cover all types of urban transportation technologies

A CD with Proceedings from the Advanced Automated Transit Systems Conference held in Bologna, Italy, November 7-8, 2005 is now available

Emerging Personal Rapid Transit Technologies: Introduction, State of the Art, Applications, by M. Buchanan, et al, November, 2005

Link to new website focused on Automated Roadway Vehicles

Link to a new website for a cable system being developed in Canada - passengers ride in a harness, suspended from a cable, using gravity for propulsion.

Teraleaf - new website for a U.S. company that is working on an evolutionary approach to automating highway operations - simulations available. Of special interest to those interested in dualmode systems.

Vectus PRT open their website it is a joint effort between Korean and some European partners, English version is available.

SupraTrans opens website - a maglev system being developed in Germany, features superconduction technology

December, 2005 

Parry Peoplemover begins second application in the U.K. - propulsion is via a flywheel and vehicle is like a tram.

Urbanaut Monorail Technology Center opens near Seattle, features operating 1:10 scale model to demonstration its components

Tubular Rail website updated - now includes three movies and several more new graphics

Link to graphics from a study of an application of Cabinlift to a hospital complex in Bremen, Germany

Link to a study of how PRT could be applied throughout  the entire state of New Jersey, by a Princeton University class, 118 pp., pdf format.

Links to Cabintaxi and Cabinlift videos - very good for introducing PRT concepts - both show real systems in operation

New International Maglev Board website launched - includes discussion Forum,  free registration

November, 2005

Links to seven architectural renderings of Cabintaxi application concepts derived from several photos of the Cabintaxi test track.

Link to Summary of Cabintaxi PRT study for Hagen, Germany, 1971-72,  includes areawide network map and loading diagram.

CEETI Virtual Workshop on Dualmode Transportation:  Driverless Freight Systems, December 9, 2005

Link to updated website for Puget Pullway dualmode system

Trade-offs to consider when designing a transit system, by J. Edward Anderson 

Call for papers and conference information:  Maglev 2006, 13-15 September, 2006, Dresden, Germany

Conference Proceedings CD now available: William L. Alden Morgantown O&M Seminar, October, 2005

October, 2005 

British Airport Authority (BAA) selects ULTra PRT for an initial application at Heathrow International Airport - also invests
several million pounds in ATS, Ltd.

Link to new book information: Intelligent Vehicle Technologies and Trends, by Richard Bishop

Link to information about the EcoTaxi project in Finland, prototype under development

Link to California Regional Maglev Project - San Diego to Los Angeles

September, 2005

Information about the Virtual Workshop on Dualmode Transportation, held on 9/16/2005

Links to three very good illustrated updates from RUF International: One on guideways, one on the role of fuel cells for use in RUF vehicles and one on implementation strategy

Article: On finding niches for a dualmode transportation system for a large U.S. metropolis, by J. Schneider

August, 2005

Link to Vanderlande Industries website - a global leader in automated baggage handling and screening systems for airports, based in the Netherlands

Article: Why we need a transport revolution, by Malcolm Buchanan

New automated freight system from Siemens, in Germany

New monorail design from Germany, two-way travel on one guideway, people and cargo versions, in German but very well-illustrated, English version coming later

Virtual Workshop on Dualmode Transportation, 10-part series, to begin in September, 2005, hosted by CEETI at Texas A&M University

Link to the Tubular Rail website - a unique monorail-type system that does not require a conventional guideway

July, 2005

Advanced Automated Transit Systems (AATS 2005) conference, Bologna, Italy, 7-8 Novermber, 2005, abstracts due by September 16, 2005

Link to Mobilicity website in the U.K. - features an automated GRT system, prototype vehicle now being developed, project report available (14.3 Mb PDF)

Article from World Energy Monthly about the new Center for Energy, Environment and Transportation Innovation (CEETI) at Texas A&M University (posted with permission of World Energy Monthly)

Link to a Dutch website that describes an effort to foster transportation innovations in the Netherlands

Link to a new website about maglev technologies, in German

New GRT-type system being tested in Austria, called the Coaster, features both an alpine and urban version

New Center for Energy, Environment and Transportation Innovation (CEETI) gets underway at Texas A&M University

June, 2005
Some results from a 30-mile Cabintaxi network simulation in Hamburg, Germany

PRT proposal for the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington

EPA awards Cities 21 a "Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages" grant

Pedal power thrives in Germany and many other countries - article about Velotaxi (more details and pictures at www.velotaxi.de)

May, 2005

Overview of the status of national/international maglev projects

Zhonghua-06 -- a light-weight, suspended, maglev system under development in Dalian, China

RUZway - a low-cost, elevated, solar-supplied PRT-like system being developed in India

April, 2005

Update of the Car Bus page, includes a link to a description of a Car Bus demonstration project, by Dave Petrie

Comprehensive update of MegaRail website now available

Final Program for New Transport Visions in Orlando - April 30 - a day of presentations and discussions sponsored by the Advanced Transit Association  - preceding the Automated Peoplemovers Conference, APM05, May 1-4

March, 2005

Intelligent Multimodal Transit System (IMTS) - a dualmode bus that began operation this month at EXPO 2005, in Japan

New Jersey Department of Transportation issues Request for Proposals for PRT Study

Link to new video about the Monomobile dualmode concept

Link to latest presentation from MegaRail Transportation, pdf file, 2+ megabytes, 29 pages 

HSST urban maglev train starts public service in Japan as part of EXPO 2005 in Japan

Link to the text of House Bill 1429 which has passed the Washington legislature without dissent (97-0) - includes PRT and maglev as potential technologies of interest. It now goes to the Senate for further action.  

Link to article entitled The DualMode EV Revolution, by Francis D. Reynolds, published in EV World

Link to information about an extreme hybrid vehicle that utilizes a flywheel and might get 200 miles per gallon

February, 2005 

Link to article about FlyBy PRT - a joint effort between POSCO of Korea and companies in Norway

Link to website for the UK Ultraspeed project - a maglev concept using German Transrapid technology

Link to maglev project located in the Philippines - working toward a National Maglev Initiative

Link to paper entitled Application of New Technology Product Research to New Suburban Commute System Design and Validation, by Steve Raney, 2004.

Link to paper entitled Morgantown People Mover - Updated Description, by Steve Raney and Stan Young, 2004, 12 pp.

New PRT company formed, called PRT International, LLC by Dr. J.E. Anderson and associates

Link to excellent Swedish PRT deployment study (16 pages, illustrated, shows staged implementation plan)  

Link to Neue Bahntechnik Paderborn (NBP) website in Germany - modular railway system that combines a sophisticated undercarriage with the advantages of the Transrapid using existing railway tracks - to carry both passengers and cargo

January, 2005

Link to "A SemiMaglev Urbanaut - A New Total Monorail Concept", by Einar and John Svensson, illlustrated Word document, 4+megs

Update (1/22/05) of MegaRail & MicroRail System Specifications now available

Article about a PRT study for the entire state of New Jersey, done by Princeton University students

4th International Symposium on Underground Frieght Transportation, Shanghai, China, October 2005

Link to a new newsletter entitled Transport Innovator that is focused on BRT and innovative bus technologies and projects around the world

Article entitled "The Structure of Transportation Revolutions", by Daniel Sweeny

Link to conference summary: Access to Destinations: Rethinking the Way We Look at Transportation, U of Minnesota, December, 2004

Easy-Rider - a dynamic carpool service now operating in Amsterdam

Intelligent Grouping Transportation (IGT) - a taxibus concept being developed in the U.K.


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