Morgantown won a PRT design contest in 1968 and received a large federal grant to complete the project. Despite being very popular with the students of the town, who depend on it to get to classes, the Morgantown PRT has been virtually ignored by the media in recent years, explaining why it is completely absent from the public discussion of how to create more mass transit to relieve our congested roadways.

The above is quoted from the video posted on youtube showing off the Morgantown application.

Interview with Allan Gregory, Surface Access Director at Heathrow Airport. “Many people are often surprised that BAA is a supporter of rail, we see air and rail as being complementary to each other and over the last ten years BAA invested over £715 million in Heathrow Express and other rail developments.” Watch the video to see which rail links are coming to Heathrow Airport and why BAA took part in the pioneering personal rapid transit scheme.

Simulation-based analysis of Personal Rapid Transit System in Masdar City. For this thesis an interim but critical stage of the network phasing was chosen for simulation, as it includes the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, a 4 star hotel, residential areas with community centers, a Convention Center and the Masdar Initiative Headquarters.

Read the abstract here.

The Jetson jetset: Heathrow’s Personal Rapid Transit pods. Jumbo jets pass narrowly overhead and there’s gridlock on the road below as my white, plastic pod progresses along a narrow viaduct through the knotted infrastructure around Heathrow airport. This is the future we were supposed to have had…

Read the full article here.