PRT works in its promoters' heads, but has yet to work in reality after 40 years of trying.
"Personal Rapid Transit, or PRT, has once again emerged from obscurity to be asserted as an alternative to standard rail transit projects. A transit concept from the 1960s, envisioning tiny automated electric automobile-like vehicles speeding throughout urban neighborhoods on elevated guideways, Personal Rapid Transit has fallen on its face and seemingly died several times, only to be repeatedly resuscitated by its adherents."
Thanks to Michael D. Setty
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