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04
2011
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: www.ultraprt.net Visualization by Nathan Koren, Tony Wooster, Matthew Cross. Music: Andrew Gorny. Voice: Mo McFeely. Higher resolution versions available at: www.ultraprt.net This is a slight update to the original video that had 42000 views.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
How f-ing awesome. Nothing more to say.
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this is elevated, unfortunately Aussies are against elevated anything =(
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.
nice idea, but if lots of people travel along similar routes it wouldnt be very energy efficient?
@esbielab ah i get it
@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.“
@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.
„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
Does this mean all of London might get this?
this could work on big campuses pretty good too…
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Will you see me getting off this thing once I get on?! NO WAY!
Fuck Shweeb… this is a far better option!
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.
@mickandmj 21-person vehicle is a „group.“ GRT and PRT both have station bypass.
PRT & GRT definitions: tinyurl dot com / 29pnegt
@esbielab they can operate as GRT or PRT
Morgantown is GRT with 21-person vehicles. There’s a difference between GRT and PRT.
Its not that new!!! see Morgantown PRT opened in 1975!!!
people have been excited about PRT since the late 1960s…we have not yet got there yet
@NEWREDDAWN: EVs are very reliable, it’s not as complicated as classic car… Malfunction will be very rare I believe, and when you monitor all onboard systems, you can predict many of them even before it happen. And if it happen, it will be just pulled away in few minutes, I believe, there will be some maintenace sections all around the grid… But still, I believe, this can be made very reliable…
this is so amazing video! I can imagine, when this is build around all around the city, how to use just for going to supermarket, or to the pub, to the worl…. Just imagine the difference between taking the bus and this! This is so amazing!, I wish it’s already all around my city
Why are they using those pods that require a wide guideway with railings? Just have the cars take power from a rail like subways do, but hide it inside the box beam so that it looks like the cars are floating along the rail. It’s a much cheaper way to do PRT.
Why not use present day automobiles as the basic vehicle, and existing roads and railways as the basic infrastructure? No need to create a radically new vehicle, we could be running Hondas and SUVs and Toyotas and Fords and vans and motorhomes on those roads automatically.
The dream of Cabintaxi finally realised
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