Personal Mass Transit?
from the keep-to-yourself dept
More than three years ago, we wrote about the idea for a transit system called RUF, standing for "Rapid, Urban, Flexible". It involved simple electric cars that could work as regular cars (with limitations) on regular roads, but could also hook up to a public transport system and zip you wherever you wanted to go. It was a cross between cars and public transportation. There was talk about setting up such a system in Europe. However, Americans don't want to have to go out and buy an additional dinky electric car, so over here we came up with yet another transportation system named PERTS for Personal Electric Rapid Transit System - that would let you keep your existing car. However, when you wanted to travel longer distances, you would simply drive your car into a pod and program where you wanted to go. These sounded like great ideas, but it looks like we're actually taking a step backwards with what is being looked into lately. Over in Minnesota, they've announced interest in setting up a Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) monorail system. Basically, it's a monorail with a bunch of separate cars on the tracks. You'd go to the station, get in an available car and tell it where to go. This seems a lot less useful than just using your own car as part of the system. It also seems fairly limiting if the PRT monorail system doesn't go where you need it to go. Not everyone is happy about the system. They think it's a waste of money and might be ugly. They're probably right. The current system sounds like it's only a tiny bit more useful than current mass transit systems in that you have a little bit more flexibility. However, it doesn't have the same level of usefulness/flexibility as those earlier systems we described. The one area where this could be useful is in urban situations where cars are almost completely unnecessary - such as NYC. But, the subway system there is already pretty effective.
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Forget Transit
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Morgantown's PRT
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On behalf of the Midwest
Please don't make us use force.
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Personal mass transit.
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Re: On behalf of the Midwest
ahahahahahahahaha
hahahaha California ahahahahahah
ahahahaha
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I'll bet you or someone you know is a shareholder in a PRT company like Taxi 2000, right Mr. Blog?
Too bad Morrie is pissing away Taxi 2000 shareholder's 's money on lawyers.
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If I did know such people, how would that make Joe Dokes's comment not a smear?
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Someone mentioned to me the narrator sure sounds like Patricia Clarkson, but I think the odds of that are 99.999% against.
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Personal Mass Transit is a market for US to sell globally
The PRT is is based on over 200 year old technology, it time to dump the train track. I hope the US will grab the newer PMT (Personal Mass Transit) and market it globlally to places like China or India.
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