ULTra PRT sustainable transit 2

ULTra is a battery-driven, 200-mpg-equivalent, elevated personal rapid transit system with many four-person vehicles. First deployment is scheduled for London Heathrow Airport in Spring 2010, to serve Heathrow's new Terminal 5. Working as circulator transit for airports, office parks, universities, and other major activity centers, ULTra is faster than a car. In these applications, ULTra solves the "last mile problem."
For more info: http://www.ultraprt.net/

Visualization by Nathan Koren, Tony Wooster, Matthew Cross. Music: Andrew Gorny. Voice: Mo McFeely. Higher resolution versions available at: http://www.ultraprt.net/cms/index.php?page=overview

This is a slight update to the original video that had 42,000 views.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• PRT
• heathrow
• london
• transit
• sustainable
• ULTra
• personal
• rapid
• public
• transport

[BleedingHeart1970]

"traveling up to 3 times faster than a car" so how fast?

highway speeds? or if it goes at 60mph, we drive at 20?

hmmm... LOL. still like ULTra :)

[esbielab]

@BleedingHeart1970 . Cars have to stop at stop signs and stop lights, and cars are delayed by traffic. The effective speed (including stops) in a US office park is somewhere around 12 mph, and sometimes less. In comparison, non-strop PRT running at 25 mph is much faster than the effective speed of a car.

[futate01]

I like how when they promote these ideas they always show how easily "a few people" can enjoy the system. OK. A few people sure, but if this is intend to help with mass transit, lets say in Manhattan, where you have hundreds of thousands of people, all of whom come in the morning and leave in the afternoon how would a few of these carts handle all of them.

If each holds four people you will need at least twenty five thousand of them on a skinny little rail. That's another traffic jam.

[esbielab]

@futate01 PRT capacity is surprisingly high, but PRT should be part of a tapestry of green transit solutions. PRT is not a replacement for Manhattan's subway system - but PRT can work as a complement to such high capacity line-haul transit systems, by solving "the last-mile problem."

[crazybumptastic]

This is the transport of the future! This company has it nailed and is showing us the shape of things to come. Well done!

[747K]

Let see more of this!!!!!!!

[mayflowerstein]

How does rain or snow effect these little trains?

[abbyandy]

This is awesome I wlll pass this on to the new Mayor and city council of

Abbotsford British Columbia I am sick and tired of the stop and go and

stop transit buses we need something better this is it the future is now

[2WAYFM]

How f-ing awesome. Nothing more to say.

[xilentpwn]

The Venus Project

[tri400]

this is elevated, unfortunately Aussies are against elevated anything =(

[ocf1fan1]

Wow that's so very advanced & futuristic! Now if only they would build that public transit system here in the Greater LA area in Southern California.

[lievenvv]

nice idea, but if lots of people travel along similar routes it wouldnt be very energy efficient?

[BleedingHeart1970]

@esbielab ah i get it