What's New Archive: 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
The following is a reverse chronological list of news items and additions and changes to this website: 2005 to present
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Link to new Sky Tram website - a suspended mass transit concept that uses old airplane fuselagesJune, 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 MullerPRT 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 PRTLink 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,
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
Link to some good PUMA information at Segway's website
Link to new English version of Schmid Peoplemover website
Conference announcement: City Mobil, Finland, May 8, '09 - program info in EnglishMarch, 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 solutionsFebruary, 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
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
Car-free Masdar City will run on green cars
PRT gets another chance at life, article in Venture magazineLink 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, 2009Link 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
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, 2008Maglev 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.
September, 2008
Link to City Gondola website - suspended GRT concept
Link to Beamways website, a suspended PodCar system under development in Sweden
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 FTASelf-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, 2008New 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
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 VehiclesMay, 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
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
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
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 operationDecember, 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, 2007TRB 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)
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.)
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
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
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
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 SystemCabintaxi 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
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.
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
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=driversbysHigh 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 regionLink 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 principlesJPods PRT signs agreement with Swiss company to commercialize its automated transit concept in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
-- Link to JPods websiteDecember, 2006
Link to updated CargoRail presentation regarding Port of Long Beach transport problemsLink 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 informationGeneral 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, 2007Anglo-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, 2005Update 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 pagesEnvisioning 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 alApril, 2006
Discovery Channel in Canada posts video segment on the Danish RUF system: for more details see
the RUF website at www.ruf.dkUpdate 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
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.
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
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
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, WashingtonEPA 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
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
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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