ULTra PRT | Fully Charged

Robert Llewellyn checks out ULTra PRT at Heathrow Airport, London.
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Robert visits London Heathrow's Terminal 5 to test out the new ULTra PRT pod transport system. With 21 pods and over 4km of track it's the only system of its kind in an airport anywhere in the world.

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  Autos & Vehicles

[alcapone1312]

ashens



[L1verpool10]

That face 0:54. LOL :-D

[TodayHi1953]

Not the construction of the stations and pods

[markhorneyuk]

Maintenance yes, construction......slightly no, no doubt these pods will be made in china like everything else and then shipped to britain....LOL!!!

[TodayHi1953]

A transport system doesn't work correctly without different modes of transport. Rail, PRT, Bus, Light Rail, and Skyway would work into an intermodal urban transport system. PRT wouldn't be nearly as big as the Underground, so no need to jump to conclusions. The bus and train drivers would still keep their jobs, and more jobs would be created through Maintenance, construction, and control of the pods...

[Simon Rosen]

what happens if one gets a flat? does robot tow truck come to the rescue?

[markhorneyuk]

in some what yes....

[Isaac Ivell]

Because it serves a single business car park, nevertheless it has the potential to be huge.

[Isaac Ivell]

So pretty much the problems we face on present forms of public transport?

[edyinthesky]

What a ridiculous system. Either make a cool expensive vehicle that can drive by itself on the public road. Or make a vehicle that can run automated on adapted roads, but make sure it is cheap to adapt roads... Looks to me like they need a whole new track. You've made a system which you can only sell to big organisations, and with all your batteries I am sure it wont be cheap to maintain. Better make a vehicle you would want as an indivudual.

[Joshua Bond]

this is some amazing tech! :O

[markhorneyuk]

no, sorry, they shouldn't, read my post why, I just explained quite a lot as it on the REASONS why this will never be a public thing, it's ideal to stay private like for airports, shame really, I would agree to your comment if we had a logical society and people were different.