Personal rapid transit for Maui

ULTra (Urban Light Transit)

From Wikipedia…
Personal rapid transit (PRT), also called podcar, is a public transportation mode featuring small automated vehicles operating on a network of specially built guide ways. PRT is a type of automated guideway transit (AGT), a class of system which also includes larger vehicles all the way to small subway systems.
In PRT designs, vehicles are sized for individual or small group travel, typically carrying no more than 3 to 6 passengers per vehicle[1]. Guide ways are arranged in a network topology, with all stations located on sidings, and with frequent merge/diverge points. This approach allows for nonstop, point-to-point travel, bypassing all intermediate stations. The point-to-point service has been compared to a taxi or a horizontal lift (elevator).

How cool if Maui began researching the use of pod car technologies within local communities to go beyond the current public transportation schemes which are operating at a significant loss.

Morgantown (personal rapid transit)

About paulhugel

Since 1992 I have held the vision of establishing Maui, Hawaii as the environmental sciences center of the world. After His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet came to Maui This vision has expanded to establishing Maui as the environmental & peace center of the world. In 1995 At Maui High Performance Computing Center The Maui Scientific Analysis & Visualization of the Environment Program was incubated. I was the principal investigator of this independant research project which was a joint development between MHPCC, Silicon Graphics Computers (SGI) & nko.org. Today with no major funding The Maui S.A.V.E. Program continues and has evolved from Internet based virtual reality modeling to Internet based video distribution highlighting the environment and peace efforts of humans across the globe.