Open PRT specification project

As anybody does much design work knows, you can always do better. Second guessing one’s own designs is something that is best not rushed, h...

In the early days of PRT, back when governments and multinational companies were first eyeing the idea, the whole concept was so futuristic ...

  I know, acronyms are often useless, contrived and perhaps a bit tacky.  And I suppose I could, in the past, be accused of trying to shoe-...

Since we were discussing switching in the last post, and I have had a few ideas percolating about the subject for quite some time, I though...

Well, I’m up in New England again, away from the modern world, and probably posting this from the town library.  I have gotten to see both t...

Well folks, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are a couple thousand worth. Shown above is how a three-wheeled PRT vehicl...

The other day I read a paper promoting “robocars” and related technologies and I ran into the following quote: “There are two weaknesses in...

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...