"Sustainable Transport Systems"

Urbanization and population trends are making it difficult for governments to ensure the movement of people and goods. To confront problems of congestion, air pollution and oil dependence, innovative transportation solutions are being planned and implemented in countries around the world. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) and Electric Vehicle (EV) infrastructure are transformative sustainable transportation systems in the 21st century.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• sustainable transport
• abu dhabi
• tel aviv
• israel
• congestion
• oil dependence
• air pollution
• BRT. Electric cars
• PRT
• Masdar

[trisk77]

PRT will be the dominant form of human and freight transportation in our cities in the future, it's an efficient, clean, low cost, low noise, transport method.

Think about not having to stop at traffic lights, concentrate on not having an accident (in a car), parking your car, insuring, buying, putting fuel in your car, just for starters...

Since we live in a CAPITALIST world, once the mainstream media (ie big business) cottons on to the PRT altenative, it should be a NO brainer.

[Mobilitytomorrow]

PRT will be one of many transportation tools used in the future. It indeed offers many benefits and is being used and designed primarily for airports and university campuses. The system in Masdar City is innovative and could prompt other cities to implement the technology. Costs at the moment are prohibitive for some and multiple PRT routes are subject to monitoring challenges but advances and economies of scale might make PRT more common place in future transport mixes

[KrunchyJD]

Instead of PRT, why not have bicycles, they require NO electricity.

[Mobilitytomorrow]

Bicycles are and should be important components of any sustainable transportation system. Cities like Paris, Barcelona and Madrid are demonstrating the virtues of bike sharing programs and showing that bicycle use can be an attractive and effective form of mobility, even in urban spaces.

[royalroadkill]

Nice!

[Mobilitytomorrow]

Thanks. Appreciate all of the comments.

[ThinkStage]

Very cool

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[peeratop]

@Mobilitytomorrow so why not bike but PRT. PRT still using electricity which currently still come from fuel (perhaps sun at later stage) 5 hr useage at 2 hr recharge? I would like to see how efficient it is in comparison to car all-in-all.

[cobraman96]

@KrunchyJD Maybe its just eurotrash liberals like you that i hate,You see that be more eurpeon is a liberal thing.We fought to get away from your sorry asses years ago!

[cobraman96]

@KrunchyJD Numbnutts<i have two bad knees from working in the same industry for 23 years.The last thing i wanna do is ride a fucking childs toy home after a hards days work.You're entitled to your opinions ,yet you have no right to force your beliefs on everyone else by riding you bike in traffic and slowing everydown and therefore burning more fuel in city traffic!

[cobraman96]

@KrunchyJD Try riding your lil bike on your next overseas vacation.....

[cobraman96]

@KrunchyJD No they just belong on bike trails on not on the hiway!