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Heathrow personal transport pods are coming 1-23-2009
PRT in MIT Technology Review 2-8-2009
Podcars inch from myth to reality 2-11-2009
Google Street View: Heathrow guideway visible from Western Perimeter Rd.
• Town Council's Feb. 2009 position 5-11-2009
• District Council's public PRT documents
Podcars in the movies 4-15-2009
Brief video from Heathrow PRT 4-21-2009
Asko Kauppi's photos from LHR conference
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Pick Of The Pods 5-7-2009
Heathrow Tests Personal Rapid Transit Jul-Aug 2009
"Personal rapid transit" (Number Crunching blog)
Daventry PRT on hold due to global recession 8-10-09
ULTra in Popular Science 8-19-2009
"Heathrow travellers get a robot chauffeur" New Scientist, 8-27-2009
ULTra batteries and charging described 8-28-2009
"Bold new transit system" (South Bay, SF area) 9-16-2009
San Jose sustainability officer visits Heathrow 9-18-2009
Futuristic ULTra Sustainable Transport in the Here and Now 10-4-2009
ULTra featured on The Discovery Channel ←multiple segments on podcars
Flight innovations you'll love (CNN Budget Travel) 10-16-2009
Civitas news release on Bath UK PRT design expo 11-16-2009
ULTra inspires kids to design 'light rail' line (Sammamish,WA) 11-20-2009
Councilman Koretz blows Curbed LA's mind with PRT 11-20-2009
Meet the Mod Pods 12-2-2009
Heathrow throws the driver out 12-9-2009
Heathrow Central Terminal Area study by ATS
Video: What a round trip on the Heathrow PRT looks like
Video: ULTra demos multi-pod operation 12-24-2009
"Futuristic transport for Cardiff still on hold" 1-25-2010
Results of the Bath design competition 2-2-2010
After Heathrow, Pod Cars may well hit the Millennium City (India) 2-18-2010
Passenger pods without a driver are almost ready for take-off at Heathrow 3-9-2010
53rd annual Viva Award (UK livery guild) 3-15-2010
Future transit could connect Shoreline, Moffett businesses (Mountain View, CA) 3-23-2010
Futuristic Luxury Pods 4-5-2010
Video: Trial handles 48 riders in 5 minutes 4-6-2010
ULTra to begin public operations in June 5-8-2010
Civitas seeks public comment in Bath 6-10-2010
"Follow that Pod Car!" ("World Business" video, 5 min.) 6-25-2010
Pod Cars Start to Gain Traction in Some Cities, New York Times. Increasing interest, and relevance to green objectives; special attention to Heathrow program. 9-20-2010
ULTra in Intersection design magazine (#8) 10-19-2010
ULTra Heathrow begins public service (#1) 10-19-2010
Smooth ride to Golden Temple (Amritsar) 10-25-2010
• Bandra-Kurla Complex Mumbai commercial zone (Times of India)
Flights at London Heathrow airport are getting back on schedule after recent heavy snow and arctic conditions -- but the weather has been no problem for Heathrow's ULTra PRT. Sources tell the NewsCenter that the new automated pod transit system is handling the snow well. The open mesh guideway allows snow to pass through, and it is hard for ice to form on the pebbly surface.
The Times of India reports the state of Haryana has approved the study of a PRT system in Gurgaon, outside New Delhi (see earlier). 1. The study will be carried out by ULTra and the local firm Fairwood; 2. A 143-station network is foreseen; 3. the state feels PRT is best option because there is little remaining space for surface transit. 1-17-2011
"Pod conference to be held in town" 2-7-2011. 1. District Council Daventry UK to host another innovative transport conference, 2. PRT and GRT to be discussed Feb. 8; 3. a featured speaker will be the Hon. Norman Baker, Liberal Democratic MP from Lewes. 4. Conference page. There was an earlier conference in 2007.
• Northants Patriot item: "Cyber buses to replace Daventry pod plan". DDC claims the £85 million needed for PRT would have come from an EU sustainable transport fund, not local taxes.
• Northampton Chronicle & Echo: "Pod network shelved due to its £85m cost". "...concerns have been raised that [GRT] would also run into several million pounds, at a time when financial austerity is the buzzword for local authorities up and down the country."
ULTra cited in preliminary proposal for Coon Rapids, MN Robert Jacobs of Smart Infrastructure. 3-9-2011
ULTra announces start of 3-week test open to traveling public at Terminal 5; anticipates going "fully live this summer." 4-19-2011
Railway Gazette: Now expected to launch in July 5-5-2011
Video: PRT can make other transit modes, such as High Speed Rail,
more effective by improving rapid access 5-5-2011
The uniquely planned southern England city of Milton Keynes is hoping PRT can be the elevated transit system it had hoped for 40 years ago, when monorail had been considered.
Public feedback "overwhelmingly positive" on new Heathrow pod transit (EU CityMobil) 6-27-2011
• Amritsar & Gurgaon: Like in Heathrow, 'Pods' to soon go around Amritsar
• Tender offer
• Vasant Kunj 8-8-2011
"Pod Cars, Moving Silently at Heathrow's Terminal 5" 8-5-2011
"Pod Cars Make Their Debut At Heathrow Airport" by Graham Webster (TPM) 8-18-2011
"Many vendors may get on board" 8-25-2011
"A concept whose time has come" - includes Martin Lowson. 6 min. segment from Urban Mobility 2011 series on Current TV. 9-6-2011
