MORGANTOWN, West Virginia - Three hours before game time, five college guys are risking their lives.

The PRT (personal rapid transit) is a West Virginia University mini railcar that has abruptly stopped at a random station. The first and only stop on this route was supposed to be outside Mountaineer Field for West Virginia's opener against Missouri, until a system malfunction occurred. Read more...

Emissions from passenger transport causes impacts to the environment and human health.With increasingdemand for urbantransportation caused by population growth and urbanizationnew transport solutions are needed. Vectus Intelligent Transport develops a new transport solution with the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) technology which providesindividual,automatedandon demand transportation.

Could Uber and Lyft make the dream of futurists for personal rapid transit come true?

Since the 1950s, thinkers such as city transportation planner Donn Fichter began to envision an automated public transit system for low-density areas where rail and even buses were not practical. Even in denser urban environments, it has always been a challenge to get people to leave their cars at home when mass transit cannot offer point-to-point and schedule on demand service. Read more...

Edward J. Anderson visited the Princeton Rotary Club Aug. 17 to tell the members about his research on personal rapid transit and why a PRT system would work where light rail has failed.
Anderson said he'd helped start the original transit agency in Minnesota and had been working on alternatives after realizing that congestion is the problem and that light rail "does not reduce congestion." He founded the Taxi 2000 Corporation and said he's long been developing the specifications for a prototype PRT system. Read more...

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 25:  

GATEway (Greenwich Automated Transport Environment) is an £8m research project, led by TRL, to understand and overcome the technical, legal and societal challenges of implementing automated vehicles in an urban environment.

Taking place in TRL's UK Smart Mobility Lab in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, the project will trial and validate a series of different use cases for automated vehicles, including driverless shuttles and automated urban deliveries. Read more...

Last week we wrote an article about 5 companies that are building an autonomous electric bus, the majority of which are just at the early stages of commercialization with various pilot projects launched. One Dutch company has been working on autonomous vehicles which operate on electric power since 1984 and is the first of all these companies to have working commercial deployments of which they have two.

Hyperloop One tells TechCrunch it might be building its crazy fast transportation system at the Jebel Ali port in Dubai if all goes according to plan.

And it could be the first place to build an actual Hyperloop for commercial use, says CEO Rob Lloyd. "It's got the infrastructure, regulatory movement and kind of capital in place needed to build it already," he told TechCrunch.