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Can ‘Personal Rapid Transit’ Really Replace Buses and Trains?

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/06/...ses-and-trains

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- In April, transportation leaders in America's 10th largest city announced that they had greenlit the first leg of a new "personal rapid transit" (or PRT) system, with an initial route to run between the Diridon regional transit hub and San Jose's international airport. The project beat out traditional buses and trains, neither of which serve the airport now, and oft-blogged-about technologies like Virgin Hyperloop and Elon Musk's Boring Company tunnels, despite the fact that PRT systems, to date, only exist in a handful of airports, a futuristic Dubai neighorhood, and one small town in West Virginia. --- Moreover the city says that the estimated $500-million project is only the beginning, and the system, as it expands, will eventually serve as a national model for "a new approach to transit that can be designed and built faster and at lower cost, and offers a better rider experience than traditional transit systems."

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Skip to 6:46 for a visualization of a Glydcar operating in an urban environment.


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