On Monday, Oct 11, 2004, at 09:17 US/Central, David Greene wrote:
There is much more material and cost overhead in constructing a vehicle for each person. It's like buying a car for each person.
No it's not, because you don't have one for every person. You would have a number of pods that balances average trip time and cost. If you want to move more people per hour, you could add more pods.
Think of it more like a taxi- we don't have one taxi for each taxi rider. There are a certain number of cabs that service the population. The more cabs there are, the less time you wait for one and the more people you can move by cab per hour. When you are done using the cab someone else hires it.
Compare this to your car. When you aren't using it nobody else is either. The PRT pods are more like taxis; once you are done with your trip, that pod is dispatched to transport someone else.
That said, PRT may not be the best solution for servicing a really high volume one-way commute hour scenario, but it could have promise for some applications.
Terrence Asselin Kingfield.
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