Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is networking
for the transportation world. The internet-like concept of automated
routing of individual packets of cargo seems obvious in retrospect. But,
if you compare this to what we have now... it's orders of magnitude
better. This will be a ancestor to the nanotechnology built, world-wide,
hyper-speed tube transportation system in this story.
More links:
Google
search for Automated Transport
Innovative
Transportation Technologies - 8th Year
(Big site, with many systems!)
International
Public Transportation WebRing
advancedtransit.org
Sky
Loop Committee The Downtown Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky PRT
Circulator
Shifts in
paradigm always involve punch-ups between established and new systems. The
same is true for PRT vs. rail:
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