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2getthere's Masdar page

"NASA Partners To Revolutionize Personal Transportation" (Ames Research Center)

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From our sources: The NASA photo shows a full size model of a new SkyTran design. While resembling Unimodal's familiar renderings that have circulated for years, the new one is larger. The width has been doubled to four and one half feet. Passenger door is on the side, is hinged at the top; a small luggage compartment hatch is visible aft. Multiple exterior shapes are contemplated. ©MMIX Get On Board!PRT News

"Ultimate green machine: A Personal Magnetic Transporter" (SkyTran)
      :: "Travel idea puts two peas in a pod" (SF Examiner)

Boston Globe story on advanced transport pioneer William Alden.

Masdar's 2getthere PRT: Official Zagato illustrations

Hofors withdraws from Skycab project?

Skycab part of Swedish embassy exhibit ("Facing the Future - Sustainability the Swedish Way") 6-20-09

Negative Marin opinion Marin IJ columnist opposes SkyTran "pie." March 2009
      • Douglas Malewicki responds (see "SkyTran will work") Clip:
      "currently testing a full scale, operational passive maglev guideway and SkyTran vehicle at the NASA Ames Research Center"

2getthere: Podcars inch from myth to reality

Treehugger interviews Systematica's Luca Guala about the Masdar PRT 2-1-09
      • Green Car Congress talks to Luca Guala about Masdar's PRT 4-29-09
      • "The Long View from SAE 2009" 4-29-09

MISTER competes on reality TV
January 30, 2008



(Get On Board!PRT) Ollie Mikosza took his MISTER personal rapid transit concept before a national television audience in Poland recently, competing on the elimination-style reality TV show "Brilliant Idea" (Kapitalny Pomysl). The show is similar to the BBC's "Dragon's Den" (soon to be "Shark Tank" in the US).

Mikosza appeared on the fifth show of the season on December 26, and was voted forward into the finals:

"But engineer Olgierd Mikosza proved unrivaled. His fully automated system for urban transport infrastructure is to ultimately replace the metro and trams in many cities. The idea is really brilliant, argued the designer on 18 January. Then the proposal is in the finals with the other six participants." Source (includes video)

The final elimination round took place on January 19. At stake -- a prize of 300,000 zlotych (67,000 Euros). Mikosza lost to Charles Kowalczuk and his 'medical goggles' invention.

In the aftermath, Mikosza told the Opole Gazette the experience was good for MISTER despite not winning the big prize. The project is likely to be in line for EU funding due to interest from the Ministry of Regional Development, and he has been contacted by eight potential investors.

Marin County Supervisors issue Letter of Interest to Unimodal unanimous decision
      • Columnist opposes SkyTran "pie"

2getthere's Robbert Lohmann interviewed about Masdar PRT (with video)

Imagineering Sacramento (JPods) 1-22-09

Brazilian magazine Epoca Negocios reports: Masdar PRT is 2GetThere ("Emirates green city has taxi with no driver")
      • Machine translation: "The city will have 10 thousand electric cars built by Holland's 2getThere."
      • Gazeta Mercantil (Brazil): "Abu Dhabi wants to be the mecca of renewable energy" (translation)

Hydrogen PRT in Mossback column. Knute Berger mentions Mag Lev Systems' Montana project in Crosscut

Virginia updates its PRT report Masdar, Skyweb, Vectus, others added. (Dec. 2008)
        January 2008

Sekaray PRT, TABOSAN Corp., an ambitious new PRT system from Turkey. A 2 km demo planned for a park in the Kocaeli metro area (Izmit). 12-23-2008

JPods on San Francisco TV news 12-15-2008

Podcars on Google Tech Talks (Nov. 20). Bengt Gustafsson of Beamways +

Mag Lev Systems project underway in Montana

J. Edward Anderson launches new website

First Look: Model of Masdar vehicle -- is this the new look for 2GetThere's Cybercab?

Flickr (Photo by Zerochamp - Creative Commons 2.0)
Appears to have been taken at the "Cityscape Dubai 2008" exhibition, held Oct. 5-8

Ithaca Takes a Hard Look at Pod Cars (NY Times)

New transit center at WVU: To break ground for intermodal facility linked to Morgantown PRT's Health Sciences station. 7-25-08

New PRT initiative (Raleigh, NC)
HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain advocates PRT for "City Of The Future" plan
      • "A rousing rethinking of Raleigh"
      • How PRT Works (Biloxi, MI)

The Future Starts Here (Skycab) Business Traveler, Sweden, June 2008

Skycab reaches agreement with Hofors (two stories) March 2008

Wyandotte County study supported by Kansas DOT and Kansas U Praise from state Dept. for Aging; related study to examine existing travel behavior.

SkyTran in Popular Science's 'Tomorrow's Mega City' (under "The Plan"; Jul '08 issue)

World Wildlife Fund "Climate Solver" features Skycab. Explains PRT concept and environmental benefits (Click on thumbnail next to green man).

Virginia says No to PRT: "unwise" to be first 1-17-2008

J. Edward Anderson of PRT International honored by Advanced Transit Association 1-17-2008

Brief intro to PRT on ZapRoot, an online/podcast eco-zine (starts around 30 sec.).

Unimodal sights on Sweden 12-28-2007

Computer scientist adds SkyTran to Second Life

Ed Anderson on Missouri trip (Branson)

Liberal-left The Guardian reports on PRT: Welcome to the Transport of Tomorrow. Skycab's three projects listed

Daily Kos: FROG is PRT vendor of choice for Masdar freight system; funding for Unimodal test track announced

Bubbles & Beams video by Sweden's SIKA institute

MISTER on Polish "Hello" TV program 9-18-2007 (YouTube)

PRT demonstration planned for Daventry UK 6-21-2007