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I don't think PRT will win. The next transportation revolution will not require duplicating the infrastructure we already have. I used to be enamored with PRT

I don't think PRT will win. The next transportation revolution will not require duplicating the infrastructure we already have. I used to be enamored with PRT. It seems so logical. And it might win if you designing a city from scratch and could layout everything to minimize the inconveniences inherent to a fixed track system. But has it even been implemented in such a new community? No, usually people in even a new community have a strange need to go to other places. There's a system that already works for that. So they simply extend that system a little further and gain access to all of its advantages. The next revolution in transportation will take advantage of this existing network.

sktrdie 15y ago
Unless there are tracks, I find it hard building an automatic PRT on current network (roads).
- stretchwithme 15y ago
  No worries, PRT will have nothing to do with it.
ricardobeat 15y ago
They tried (and failed) in Masdar - UAE: http://singularityhub.com/2011/03/01/masdar-city-abandons-public-transportation-system-of-the-future/ http://singularityhub.com/2011/03/01/masdar-city-abandons-pu... And I think you didn't read the article. It gets to exactly the same conclusion you did - or are you just trying to be witty? :)
- stretchwithme 15y ago
  Interesting. Hadn't read it, but the basic idea has been tried many times.
praptak 15y ago
> The next revolution in transportation will take advantage of this existing network. There is a simple concept that takes this assumption and adds some personal transit logic to this: busses with routes adjusted dynamically that just pick you up wherever you registered. I first read about this idea in the famous Pattern book by Christopher Alexander written in 1977. It looks like existence of smartphones and availability of real-time traffic data and cheap computing power add some feasibility to this idea.
- stretchwithme 15y ago
  That should speed things down.

sktrdie 15y ago

Unless there are tracks, I find it hard building an automatic PRT on current network (roads).

stretchwithme 15y ago
No worries, PRT will have nothing to do with it.

ricardobeat 15y ago

They tried (and failed) in Masdar - UAE: http://singularityhub.com/2011/03/01/masdar-city-abandons-public-transportation-system-of-the-future/ http://singularityhub.com/2011/03/01/masdar-city-abandons-pu... And I think you didn't read the article. It gets to exactly the same conclusion you did - or are you just trying to be witty? :)

stretchwithme 15y ago
Interesting. Hadn't read it, but the basic idea has been tried many times.

praptak 15y ago

> The next revolution in transportation will take advantage of this existing network. There is a simple concept that takes this assumption and adds some personal transit logic to this: busses with routes adjusted dynamically that just pick you up wherever you registered. I first read about this idea in the famous Pattern book by Christopher Alexander written in 1977. It looks like existence of smartphones and availability of real-time traffic data and cheap computing power add some feasibility to this idea.

stretchwithme 15y ago
That should speed things down.