Personal Rapid Transit

Sending small packets of information over the richly interlinked Internet has turned out to be the most efficient way to route information. Personal Rapid Transit is the same approach to urban transit, with individual vehicles the size of a car.

WorldChanging blog post/comments (also mentioned in a more recent post linked below, re Abu Dhabi): http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004165.html

Metafilter thread - http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40934

Advocacy in various areas:

United States -- http://advancedtransit.org/

Seattle:

http://www.gettherefast.org/
http://kinetic.seattle.wa.us/prt.html (Seattle enthusiast)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seattleprt

Austin -- http://www.acprt.org/

Minneapolis -- http://www.cprt.org

SanFranciscoBayArea -- http://www.electric-bikes.com/prt.htm and http://www.cities21.org/

Cincinnati area -- http://www.skyloop.org/

It's still at the waiting-for-some-other-city-to-do-it-first stage. Abu Dhabi is investing a lot in research:

There's a small project underway at Heathrow airport:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/20/npods20.xml

Sort-of close (but really the cars are too big):

http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/morg.htm

The inevitable WikiPedia page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit

see other BuildingActivities