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BAA Heathrow ULTra PRT

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ULTra is a battery-driven, 100-mpg-equivalent, elevated personal rapid transit system with many four-person vehicles. First deployment is scheduled for London Heathrow Airport in Spring 2009, to serve Heathrow's new Terminal 5. Working as circulator transit for airports, office parks, universities, and other major activity centers, ULTra is faster than a car. In these applications, ULTra solves the "last mile problem."
http://www.ultraprt.com/heathrow.htm
BAA (formerly British Airports Authority) is a private-sector firm that owns and operates 7 airports including London Heathrow, the world's third largest. The Heathrow ULTra system construction and operating costs are funded by BAA. This transit system is not government-subsidized.
Music was created by Adelphoi Music and the video animation by Venture Three.

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My bad. I think ... ( 8 months ago by intelevision)

My bad. I think you'll find though that Heathrow has a greater number of international passengers anually. So if one was to exclude domestic terminals from the definition of "international airport", Heathrow is the busiest.
Indeed, counting only international traffic, Atlana doesn't even make the top 30 busiest international airports. In 2005 Atlanta served 6,739,452 international passengers, compared to Heathrow's 60,964,323.

I like not only the ... ( 8 months ago by PRTguru)

I like not only the interesting CGI simulation of a PRT ride, but also the animation at the end, which illustrates the planned expansion of the system. That sort of makes up for the fact that the simulation itself showed only two possible destinations for the PRT pod: Parking and Terminal 5. Taking a pod from parking to the terminal and back is certainly cool enough for now. But someday soon, the ability to serve multiple origins and destinations will show the system's real strength.

Automating people ... ( 7 months ago by trisk77)

Automating people movements is just such a hard concept for the masses...Automation in industry has been used since the early 1900's and technology is being updated monthly in this respect.The media and politicians in most countries including my own (Australia) continue to bicker over transport funding, public/private ownership, state fedral funding...I have recently e-mailed Australian state and federal transport departments to let them know about this 'trial' in the UK. Hopefully gets through

This is very ... ( 7 months ago by uPostiView)

This is very exciting! There's been opposition to PRT from the auto, rail, and oil industries, as well as pessimistic naysayers and negative skeptics. But when millions of people see that it works, perhaps it will finally get the corporate and public investment it needs to transform the face of our cities.

Well done LHR, for ... ( 7 months ago by whiskboy)

Well done LHR, for too long you have been tired and outdated, im looking forward to seeing a new airport, one that i can be proud to collect business associates from, BKK is a great new airport, but will not rival LHR. Im looking forward to 2012, we will have a country we can be proud of again

Music was created ... ( 7 months ago by AdelphoiMusic)

Music was created by Adelphoi Music and the video animation by Venture Three.

How fast will these ... ( 7 months ago by bred2k6)

How fast will these things go?

25 mph without ... ( 7 months ago by esbielab)

25 mph without stopping. Cars driving around cities generally go about 12 mph, what with stopping at stoplights and traffic.

looks like a toaster ( 7 months ago by snuffyduffy)

looks like a toaster

I've recently been ... ( 6 months ago by airbuscrazy)

I've recently been through Heathrow, and we'd gotten lost and ran through T5. They actualy have several hundred feet of the track set up. I also saw one of the little pods. I thougt it was just a transport system for the workers going between T5 and the ground work. It looks awesome though.

i can't stand ... ( 6 months ago by bill2893)

i can't stand aeroplanes
they're unsafe, un ecofriedly, and security is such a kerfuffle
but I do like airports
especially terminal5
it was on channel5 last night and they were showing the immensely complicated and amazing baggage handling machine, and the pod prt things and all that else
it seems to me that much more thought is going into the airports than the aeroplanes themselves

Are u scared of ... ( 5 months ago by plane717)

Are u scared of flying? THEY ARE ONE OF THE SAFEST WAY'S TO TRAVEL. THEY POLLUTE MUCH LESS THAN OTHER MODES OF TRANSPORT. AND SECURITY IS THERE FOR A RESON! WOULD U LIKE TO BE BLOWN UP?

Hope u had a nice ... ( 5 months ago by plane717)

Hope u had a nice time

love that organ ... ( 5 months ago by CyrusGuitar)

love that organ sound :D I heard that heathrow will take 100million passengers per year now with the new terminal, thats pretty crazy.

Why weren't PRTs ... ( 4 months ago by Piscivorus)

Why weren't PRTs constructed back in the mid to late 1900s as the primary forms of public transportation in all major cities and towns? They had the technology- electric generators, electric motors and railroads. I wish they had.

I find it funny how ... ( 3 months ago by Calculon01)

I find it funny how they like to plug these things like they are brand new and cutting edge...when the truth is, this stuff isnt anything new, it has been around for decades.
I know for one theyve had these at WVU since the 70s

Although the WVU ... ( 3 months ago by skybum)

Although the WVU system is *called* a PRT (and was initially intentended to be an actual PRT), it doesn't actually work like one. It uses much larger vehicle, which you share with strangers, who you have to wait upon to show up. And sometimes it runs in line-haul mode, stopping like a bus at intermediate stations. True PRT never involves waiting, riding with strangers, or intermediate stops. This is indeed the first commercial application for it.

Thanks for the ... ( 3 months ago by Calculon01)

Thanks for the reply, this is really informative, I didn't know those things. Those are pretty interesting points. I still think the idea is amazing, and thrilled that it's finally progressing from concept to reality. even if the wvu system was true PRT, it sure looks pretty trashy.

There is something ... ( 3 months ago by eggaweb)

There is something of a boom in the air for transport. There are dozens of different ideas using similar principals. Some examples I have looked at to date are SkyTran (U.S.), CyberTran (U.S.), PRT 2000, SkyWeb Express, AusTran, Mist-er (Poland) etc. Many look promising. For example, the Polish attempt (Mist-er) has been approved for construction. It will be the first urban PRT to be installed.

cool, are they ... ( 3 months ago by PJ23490)

cool, are they private or public?

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High-speed ... ( 2 months ago by SeaScrabbler)

High-speed small-scale distributed computing power was the sticking point until quite recently. Now the bottleneck is entirely political. Because the oil companies realize that if this gets around, their best revenue stream is GONE unless they OWN it completely.

Part of it also had ... ( 2 months ago by ahoog69)

Part of it also had to do with the software required to effectively and safely operate the system. A fully realized PRT system - a large grid with many miles of guideway and hundreds of pods - needs foolproof software to send pods where needed and maximize efficiency.

I don't buy that ... ( 2 months ago by Piscivorus)

I don't buy that nonsense- no offense to you. For decades now, federal, state and local transportation authorities have known about the simplicity and practicality of PRTs but, they've been absolutely determined not to compete with the oil driven private transportation economy. They've been stonewalling and sabotaging ever effort to create a workable PRT system. That is why, when you try to use public transportation, you'll quickly discover that the people who run them obviously never use them.

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