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2003 News Items

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New Milpitas, CA planning commissioner sees PRT as "green transit"

Editorial: "Act soon on new Taxi 2000 personal monorail"

Duluth in lead for innovating transit system
• the resolution

PRT proposal in Monterey, CA area

Dec. 11, 2003— The group Sustainable Monterey Bay has proposed a Personal Rapid Transit system for the Fort Ord area north of the city of Monterey, California. The fort has been decommissioned by the military and the site-- which borders the town of Marina and the campus of California State University's Monterey Bay campus-- is to be redeveloped into five "village" communities.
       Ted Lahti of SMB's Soltrain says his group is working with the three master developers in charge of the redevelopment, he reports all seem to be receptive to the PRT concept.
       Soltrain is a proposal to design and build a solar powered "ultra-light rail" line in the Monterey Bay area; the intention is that the additional PRT system would run on solar power as well. It is envisioned that a combination Soltrain-SolarPRT system will solve congestion and pollution problems in the Fort Ord area, as well as save energy.
       At this time Lahti indicates his group likes Taxi 2000 Corporation's Skyweb Express PRT, but that they are open to learning about other PRT systems as well.

PRT proposed for Santa Cruz

Skyweb pitched to officials in Long Branch, NJ

Skyweb Express Special Announcement
November 5, 2003— On January 1, 2004, Taxi 2000 will begin its Phase 2 prototype program to build a working, full-scale, outdoor demonstration of SkyWeb Express. A substantial investment was recently received, and the company has sufficient funding for all of stage one and some of stage 2 of the four-stage Phase 2 program.
According to founder and inventor Dr. Ed Anderson, "This is a great day for us, a great day for transportation, and a great day for the planet. In 30 months we can have a working demonstration model of our system. If any customers want to plan in parallel with our Phase 2, the first SkyWeb Express system could be operating in four years." Taxi 2000 Corporation Newsletter - Vol. 2 No. 6

PRT, KUT-FM Austin 2:01 Realaudio clip

PRT in discussion thread about Arizona light rail 10-20-2003

U of Minnesota journal: U start-up... solution to gridlock (p. 10) From Spring '03

ULTra wins another UK government grant

"Mini-cars on guideways" to be studied for Southcenter

Learning to shift: "newer technologies, such as maglev and personal rapid transit... can potentially yield a level of service capable of lowering our congestion levels"

Not your father's public transport Utne magazine 9/03
•Unabridged version

Column: Commuting Sentences

Revised MegaRail strategy outlined in new pdf

Skyweb Express: Futuristic transit system

Ride of the Future? MPR

ULTra: New hopes; back on track? one | two