• Less than $7M/kilometer
• 10 km route through Tel Aviv to Jaffa Port.
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It has to be asked -- that long dorsal fin is just for display purposes, right? It couldn't possibly go through a curved guideway section.
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Jerry Sanders of skyTran interviewed on QTalk America's "Technobabble" podcast (segment starts at :13:30). At :28:50 Sanders names individually-owned pods as a system feature, a deviation from the ATRA definition of PRT. 1-26-2013
The Israeli website Mako is carrying news of a possible Tel Aviv pilot system for SkyTran - or rather, "skyTran" - the sleek-but-non-ADA compliant suspended maglev PRT design. The article says the skyTran, supported by the prime minister's office, will run between a parking area and a leisure area, a distance of about a mile. Electric utilities will be relocated into the transit system's guideway pylons. There is no indication the point in the planning stage the project is at, but whenever final approval occurs construction time would be 1 and a half years. Better translation
• See also "SkyTran progress," Aug. 10
• skyTran now claims ADA compatibility
SkyTran hoping for Bay Area system with Silicon Valley backing. Now operating pod on 100 ft. indoor guideway; could be operating in 2-3 years; CEO Sanders negotiating project in Tel Aviv. 8-10-2012
SkyTran: Mountain View discusses commuting answers - Silicon Valley city weighs parking fees, housing; excited by PRT. 3-20-2012
"Magnetic gliding pods could be transit of the future" SkyTran (KGO TV video) 8-2-2011
Detroit Free Press editor loves SkyTran. With video. 4-16-2011
SkyTran could bring futuristic transit to Valley 11-2-2009
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.
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:: "Travel idea puts two peas in a pod" (SF Examiner)
SkyTran in Popular Science's 'Tomorrow's Mega City' (under "The Plan"; Jul '08 issue)
Unimodal sights on Sweden 12-28-2007
