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Personal rapid transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4833 words) |
 | The PRT concept attempts to satisfy the divergent geographic and chronologic requirements of its users by using off-grade guideways, off-line access points, and small, fully-automated vehicles that are too small to encourage unrelated groups of riders. |
| Some PRT designers propose "platooning" their vehicles — dynamically-recombining "trains" of vehicles, separated by a few inches, to reduce drag and increase speed, energy efficiency and passenger density. |
| If PRT designs ultimately deliver the claimed benefit of being substantially faster than cars in areas with heavy traffic, simulations suggest that PRT might attract significantly higher than the predicted mode switch from private motoring than is the case for other proposed public transit systems (figures between 25% and 60% have been discussed). |
| ACPRT - PRT Skeptics Corner (275 words) |
| PRT can never have the capacity to carry as many people as light rail because the vehicles are too small. |
| PRT might be used to automatically deliver a terrorist's bomb. |
| PRT vehicles would have to be much heavier than the projected 1000 pounds. |
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