How about personal rapid transit (PRT) LOTS of LINKS v1.0 Rev 1
Bill Haught -- IF YOU SEE A HAUGHTY COMMUNIST HUN IN A HEIßLUFTBALLONE, CALL ON THE OFFICE OF FATHERLAND SECRECY
Personal Public Transport by Martin V. Lowson, Advanced Transport Group,
University of Bristol
http://www.aer.bris.ac.uk/atg/picet.htm
ATRA wrote a report in 1989 Report and revised in 2002. The 1989 report had
stated that current (1989) technology should be sufficient for a practical
PRT implementation.
Advanced Transit Association, Journal of Advanced Transportation,
Ultra, Taxi200 (SkyWeb Express), etc.
Indeed, according to Martin Lowson Freng in Engineering the ULTra System
(http://www.advancedtransit.org/pub/ultra1.pdf) the technology is overdue:
"Every previous change in surface transport has involved a change of both
vehicle and infrastructure. Thus it is logical to examine new systems which
feature a change of both vehicle and infrastructure. This has provided new
opportunities unconstrained by the limitations of existing systems. The key
technology for the train, Richard Trevithick's high pressure boiler, was
invented just after the major peak in canal building. But high pressure
steam could provide only marginal gain for the canal system. Similarly the
key invention for the car-road system, the internal combustion engine, was
invented just after the second major peak in railway building. Again, the
application of the internal combustion engine to the railway provides only
marginal gain over steam. In both cases, it needed the development of a new
transport system, vehicles and infrastructure, to exploit the opportunities
offered by the new technology. We are now past the major peak of motorway
building, so, by analogy with the past, it is reasonable to suppose that the
key technologies that will drive the next form of surface transport should
be available now."
http://advancedtransit.org/
http://www.cities21.org/
http://www.maitint.org/ Modular Automated Individual Transport
http://seattlelifestyle.tripod.com/cgi-bin/CommonSense.htm SOME COMMON
SENSE ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
http://www.acprt.org/
http://www.cprt.org/
http://www.jrc.es/pages/iptsreport/vol56/english/TRA1E566.htm
NEW! http://airship.org/index.cfm
NEW! http://www.arup.com/unitedkingdom/project.cfm?pageid=7544
NEW! http://www.jpods.com/
NEW! http://www.vectusprt.com/
Rapid Transit: A Potential New Urban Transport Solution
http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/
http://www.electric-bikes.com/prt.htm
http://www.et3.com/
http://www.cybertran.com/
http://www.advanced-transport.com/
http://www.atsltd.co.uk/
http://www.buick.co.uk/biway/
http://www.lycoming.edu/art/bogle/culor.html Computerized Ultralight
Overhead Rail
http://www.magsupport.com/
http://www.megarail.com/MicroRail_Urban_Transit/
Skycar -- Moller International http://www.moller.com/skycar/
http://ourworld.cs.com/PRTdesign/
http://www.skytran.net/
http://www.smartskyways.com/
http://www.swedetrack.com/
http://www.synchrorail.com/
http://www.skywebexpress.com/ obsoletes http://www.taxi2000.com/
http://www.orielsystems.u-net.com/fts/
http://www.unitran.ru/
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