3rd generation GRT (Group Rapid Transit) vehicles accommodate up to 24 passengers (12 seated). The vehicles operate on-schedule during peak hours, at a 2.5 minute interval, and operate on demand during off-peak hours with passengers summoning a vehicle by pressing a button on the platforms. The third generation of vehicles, introduced in 2021, is designed to allow extension of the route on to ordinary roads running in mixed traffic.
Initial plans called for automobiles to be banned, with PRT as the only powered intra-city transport[6] (along with an inter-city light rail line.[7] In October 2010 it was announced the PRT would not expand beyond the pilot scheme due to the cost of creating the undercroft to segregate the system from pedestrian traffic.[8][9] Plans now include electric cars and electric buses.[10] In June 2013 a representative of the builder 2getthere said the freight vehicles had not been put into service because they had not worked out how to get freight to and from the three freight stations.[11]
The Heathrow PRT system became operational in 2011, connecting Terminal 5 with a long-term car park.[14] In May 2014 BAA said in a draft 5-year plan that it would extend the system throughout the airport but this was dropped from the final plan.
Connects the site of 2013 Suncheon Garden Expo Korea to a station in the wetlands "Buffer Area" next to the Suncheon Literature Museum;[17] the line runs parallel to the Suncheon-dong Stream.[18] Stations are "on-line."
GRT stands for Group Rapid Transit which use larger capacity vehicles. Morgantown PRT and the ParkShuttle are quasi-PRT system because they lack some PRT features such as 100% on-demand service.
In 2018 it was announced that a PRT system would be installed at the new Chengdu Tianfu International Airport to connect a remote car park to the terminals.[21] The airport opened in June 2021 but it as of July 2021 is not clear if the PRT has opened.[20]
List of automated transit networks (ATN) suppliers
The following table summarizes several well-known automated transit networks (ATN) suppliers based on a comprehensive list from 2020.[22]
Boeing Vertol's successors are not marketing the Morgantown PRT system and are no longer making transit vehicles .
CabinTaxi is not undergoing further development but a US firm holds rights to the patents and is marketing the system.
The Alden staRRcar system was the basis of the Morgantown PRT. However it also developed separate models.
The Cabtrack test track used battery powered vehicles but the production model was planned to have power supplied by a bus-bar in the guideway
Vehicles in "dual mode" systems can use the specialized guideway or ordinary roads.
Spartan Superway is a non-commercial, ongoing research program staffed by multi-disciplinary students organised by the engineering department of San Jose State University. [2]
See also
Shweeb, a human powered suspended PRT design, which has a rideable prototype track in Rotorua, New Zealand.
^"Heathrow Retail Travel Services". Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2014-01-02. Heathrow Pod, began public service in 2011 and will carry around 500,000 passengers per year from the Terminal 5 business car park to the main terminal.
