| Imagine riding your own personal
monorail car to a destination directly, with the vehicle automatically
bypassing all other stations along the way. Unlike taxi cabs
at street level, you cruise over traffic on a monorail guideway,
through intersections without stopping. That's the concept that
PRT advocates and developers are working on. Several companies
are working towards implementation of PRT. Rather than present
their technology here, we have provided external links to their
websites for details. Skyweb Express has moved beyond computer
graphics and has developed a full-scale vehicle and is now planning
a test track loop. As with all new transit technologies, the
difficulty of finding a community to try something "different"
is the major challenge for promoters, no matter what the technology
is. |
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