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 ...
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 office parks, airports, universities, and other major activity centers, ULTra is faster than a car. In these applications, ULTra makes carpooling and conventional transit more effective, by solving the "last mile problem." For more info: http://www.ultraprt.com/ Visualization by Nathan Koren, Tony Wooster, Matthew Cross. Music: Andrew Gorny. Voice: Mo McFeely. Higher resolution versions available at: http://www.ultraprt.com/cms/index.php...
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Yeah, there's a momentum/early-adopter issue where the more competing proposals and companies there are, the more attractive a PRT system becomes - not just on cost but performance too.
Just look at how far it's come in the last five years - back then there were only a few startups with zero media attention, and they were struggling even to get a test track. Now we are seeing cities willing to consider some serious use-cases, even fairly large ones. Hopefully the 2010's will be the PRT decade.
It connects the multi-story car park at T5 with the business car park at the extreme NW corner of the airport. Drive around the Western Perimeter Road and you'll see it.
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Però se vanno ad elettricità sono OK.
Prototypes are expensive, live with it... More cities should spend on this system and then things will be easier...
I can see NYC getting something like this.. Come on Bloomberg..
Just look at how far it's come in the last five years - back then there were only a few startups with zero media attention, and they were struggling even to get a test track. Now we are seeing cities willing to consider some serious use-cases, even fairly large ones. Hopefully the 2010's will be the PRT decade.
I like the concept of this, it's simple, it works, convinient by the looks of it, nice one :D 5/5 Peace.
wow... isn't that like... about 1 mile per minute which is like just under 60 MPH? That's pretty fast