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Taxi 2000 Exits
2-10-2018
Taxi 2000's demo in 2005. Ed Anderson is at left.
Taxi 2000's demo in 2005. Ed Anderson is at left.
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Long time pod transit company Taxi 2000 closed in mid-2017, exiting the business without achieving a demonstration facility or system in fare service. A shareholder letter obtained in January by the NewsCenter revealed Read More
Jacksonville, Florida: "On demand pods an option to replace dated Skyway" 11-20-2015
Taxi 2000 says its PRT system can fit inside "failed" peoplemover's infrastructure envelope.
Boston Globe: "A groundswell for high-riding pods" 9-26-2015
(With audio) Correspondent Joe Palca visits Taxi 2000 offices, interviews Mike Lester and Ken Halverson, and rides the redcar prototype.
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Greenville SC: County agency terminates automated transit bid. Procurement process (which garnered two applicants) is over, although officials say they hope to restart at a later time. 7-6-2015
Taxi 2000 and SkyCabs are the only applicants; the former is working with Parsons. SkyCabs, which bills itself as Elevated Small Group Automated Rapid Transport, is from New Zealand.
Taxi 2000 making its pitch in South Carolina
$50M, 4.2 mile line envisioned; 2getthere, Taxi2000, Skycab, and Micro Transit Systems said to be planning to file proposals.
County councilman hopes for paved lane for 'semiautonomous' robocars, elevated PRT system. Highlights:
• Councilman Fred Payne hopes to acquire a 3.4 mile right of way for multimodal/ped transportation.
• Ultra-ultra-conservative Bob Jones University hosted automated taxi demo (Dec. 11, 2014) providing demand-responsive service.
Statement by the group Minnesota 2020, possibly to manage public interest in the Citizens For PRT booth at May 7-8 St. Paul green expo.
"It's the best of both worlds, is what proponents -- like Citizens for Personal Rapid Transit who had a booth at the Living Green Expo -- would have you believe." -Riordan FrostWhat followed was yet another mischaracterization of PRT as low capacity based on comparing pod size to light rail, and not recognizing PRT's capacity is network-based.
Is it not odd, reader, that one group participates as an exhibitor at a sustainability fair, while another group (not an exhibitor) decides its participation will be to question the former's believabilty. That list of exhibitors includes a Ford truck dealer and Chevrolet. Minnesota 2020 couldn't think of anything to say about auto companies being at a green expo? Or Xcel Energy, which operates two Minnesota nuclear power plants; what were they doing at Living Green with Fukushima-Daichi still smoldering? - Ed.
:: Winona mayor & city manager interviewed; restate project rationale; apparently recorded before non-recommendation.
"Leaders line up to support PRT" in Winona. T2's match is $5 million already spent on preliminary work. 2-10-2010
Taxi 2000 offers to provide 20% match for federal grant application
for Winona "PRT lab." 1-24-2010
Taxi 2000 consulted on Winona (MN) PRT proposal; state DOT names PRT director. 12-11-2009
Mike Lester to present at April 2009 Heathrow conference 2-25-09
Taxi 2000's Echo control technology (Flash)
Video: Mike Lester at Podcar City Conference #1
Revamped site goes live Sept. 2007
Made to Measure Transit (IEEE). Vukan Vuchic of UPenn states same objections as
11 years ago 6-1-2007 The article mentions neither Taxi 2000 nor the Skyweb Express system by name, however the description of PRT using "three-person vehicles" is almost certainly in reference to Skyweb.
Richard Ojard is a director of Taxi 2000.
Video: Taxi 2000 demos control system at scale 4-10-2007
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Skyweb on news in Rochester MN 7-14-2005
Creative ideas for alternative transportation look promising (Delaware) 6-21-2005
Taking the mass out of transit 12-15-2004
Minnesota legislators have PRT vision 11-2-2004
Santa Cruz opinion: PRT "something Santa Cruz could get behind". 10-23-2004
PRT in the New York Post 10-12-2004
May 27, 2007
A company on Taxi 2000 Corporation's supply team has completed a feasibility study for an unnamed
client in the United Arab Emirates. Business North reported May 5 that engineering/architecture firm Krech Ojard & Associates —
recently conducted a feasibility study for developing a Personal Rapid Transit system in United Arab Emirates, an oil-rich Middle Eastern nation of seven political territories. Personal Rapid Transit is a system of lightweight, three-person vehicles under independent or semi-independent automatic control, running on a network of fixed guideways. If approved, this would be the first system of its kind.
For more than three years, Duluth has been considered a potential location for a Personal Rapid Transit testing facility, but funding has not been available.
A notorious critic of PRT has posted on the internet a message purportedly from
Morrie Anderson, CEO of Taxi 2000 (Skyweb Express PRT) of Fridley, MN.
It reads in part:
"...PRT
has to prove itself by moving beyond concept to reality. That is the path that Taxi 2000 is currently on. We are about to move forward with a project and will let the results of this effort speak for us."
Source
This critic has a long history of inaccurate claims, so take this one with a boulder-sized grain of salt.
• Taxi 2000 sues Ed Anderson 4-28-2005
• Trade secrets ruling favors T2 6-20-2005
• Taxi 2000 v. Anderson Settled:
J. Edward Anderson announced today that he and Taxi 2000 Corporation have settled their differences over issues involving intellectual property, and Taxi 2000 has agreed to end its lawsuit filed against him. "Both Taxi 2000 and I will and can continue to pursue our mutual goal of the wider development and deployment of Personal Rapid Transit systems without fear of further law suits," Anderson wrote in an e-mail. The suit was filed in April of this year after Anderson, former Taxi 2000 CEO, left to form his own company, PRT International, LLC.
