Personal Rapid Transit
4 November 2002 - 9:00am
A University of Minnesota professor has received funding to test an electric-powered, automated system of small cabs.
"Personal rapid transit, as conceived by Anderson, is an electric-powered, automated system of small cabs, each roughly the size of a gondola, moving nonstop and free of traffic on an elevated track. ... 'They have a shoestring budget, and this was a great way to help a great project,' said Chuck Michael of SEH. 'Metro-area congestion is only getting worse, and if we add more buses to the street that is not solving anything. Any reasonable person can see how this can alleviate that congestion,' he said."
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Star Tribune, November 3, 2002
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