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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Personal Rapid Transit?

I have always thought even mass transit would turn to a more "private" experience. Check out these little personal transportation pods present at London's Heathrow Airport:



Thanks, Planetizen. Do you think there's a possibility to take this concept to city streets?

(EDIT: Oops! I forgot about Morgantown's PRT, which is actually mentioned in the video! I was thinking of Morgantown's example as more of a short-car light rail system like Detroit's People Mover.)

1 comments:

Alex Ihnen said...

Matt - check out Perugia Italy's Mini-Metro as well. The potential of personal mass transit seems huge. Sidings at stations could mean that through riders wouldn't stop . . . .

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