Open PRT specification project

Well, it is “back to the drawing board.” In the course of the continuing debate about dual mode I have started to lean more and more toward ...

I want to express a few more thoughts on the subject that I raised in the last post, that being using something along the lines of the EN-V ...

As many of you know, I have never been a big fan of dual mode.  The problem is simple.  If a vehicle is light enough to be part of an effec...

Well, we’re having a snow day in Houston…Well not really a snow day, actually it is an ice day. The buses are not running. Everyone is be...

This post is in response to comments made regarding the last one. In order to illustrate my points, I have used a modified version of the fo...

Sometimes a technology pops up out of the blue that unexpectedly solves stumbling blocks that have been around for years. In this case I wil...

One of the dirty little secrets of “green” electric cars is that the batteries have consumed a lot of energy and created considerable greenh...

It has been said, “History is written by the victors.” Well it appears that the victor, in the war of competing PRT standards, is the ULTra/...

  This just in!… After persistent rumors of a historic PRT deployment above the Artic circle, intrepid reporter Dan the Blogger goes to the...

For some time now I have advocated designing PRT for more than strictly CBD (Central Business District) use. Even though the “flight to the...

First this note; I have recently been informed that this blog has twice triggered a virus alert for one reader. Has anyone other than this o...

Recently astute reader Ken MacLeod suggested that we consider certain computer-generated steering behaviors for merging PRT vehicles, and i...

Here is omething to think about…  As I have previously pointed out, because of the boom in highway projects started in the 50’s, cities in...

In the world of TCP/IP, and even Ethernet, and especially any wireless version of either, there are transmission delays that limit what s...

For those of you expecting, from the last post, for me to explain my method of requiring only a byte-sized communications to perform a merge...