BAA Heathrow ULTra PRT

[@labanex]

Awesome video. I love the look, feel, I just can't wait to see this in the U.S.

[@eggaweb]

There is something of a boom in the air for transport. There are dozens of different ideas using similar principals. Some examples I have looked at to date are SkyTran (U.S.), CyberTran (U.S.), PRT 2000, SkyWeb Express, AusTran, Mist-er (Poland) etc. Many look promising. For example, the Polish attempt (Mist-er) has been approved for construction. It will be the first urban PRT to be installed.

[@ahoog69]

Part of it also had to do with the software required to effectively and safely operate the system. A fully realized PRT system - a large grid with many miles of guideway and hundreds of pods - needs foolproof software to send pods where needed and maximize efficiency.

[@Persephone_]

Built now innit bro!

[@Vgrmstr]

SO COOL!

[@bagelboi66]

Cool it's like Logan's Run.

[@pdxtran]

This is only a slightly more elaborate version of the people movers that already exist at airports such as Chicago O'Hare.

[@wishingstar22]

A light rail system can cost about $100,000,000 a mile. A system like this will cost about $10,000,000 a mile. Pretty cool.

[@sheeplvl1]

@esbielab Does it has the potential to move faster? Cuz I was hopping for it be a replacement system for subways.

[@uea978]

Good idea. If implemented in cities there would be no more car crashes and lots of lives would be saves. Just like taking an elevator......

[@reazrj]

cool , what do u do?

[@neuralwarp]

When's it starting service? Still waiting. Bored now.

[@bred2k6]

How fast will these things go?

[@TheBadkid1001]

Does this go to any other terminal?

[@adamcrookedsmile]

what about snow on the ground?

[@esbielab]

25 mph without stopping. Cars driving around cities generally go about 12 mph, what with stopping at stoplights and traffic.

[@theelectricmonk3909]

@jasm5052 Because all British transport projects run late - preferably between 2-3 years; and ideally they should be 4-5 times over budget. I've no idea how far ULTra is over-budget, but it's currently on course to be fashionably late.

[@darwincity]

@Pvemaster2 On which line?

[@aka4god]

There are similar transportations like this in JFK airport. I don't see why we shouldn't invest in building more in varies cities.

[@Persephone_]

I think they deploy vehicles to clear the snow.

[@dpatton1661]

This is the same airport where it can take more than an hour to get through customs, right, where no mechanical transport is needed? This cannot work. See Bruno Latour and "Aramis".

[@gieniefly1]

Well I wish I had one

[@SeaScrabbler]

High-speed small-scale distributed computing power was the sticking point until quite recently. Now the bottleneck is entirely political. Because the oil companies realize that if this gets around, their best revenue stream is GONE unless they OWN it completely.

[@sandykee2859]

heathrow pod to T5,B station and of work on A station.

[@bill2893]

i can't stand aeroplanes they're unsafe, un ecofriedly, and security is such a kerfuffle but I do like airports especially terminal5 it was on channel5 last night and they were showing the immensely complicated and amazing baggage handling machine, and the pod prt things and all that else it seems to me that much more thought is going into the airports than the aeroplanes themselves

[@goldenconnectionTV]

It almost has a face to it

[@Pvemaster2]

These things already drive in Rotterdam, they're meh imo.

[@strassenbahntk]

As long as this is used for transporting people from and to stinking parking lots where stinking cars arrive and depart, I can't see the progress and use for the mankind. Why not connecting the terminals with a light rail then stopping at an airport rail station before proceeding to the city? No need to in bringing innovative technologies to people who still use stinking and noisy fossil-fuel cars. These folks should merely be forced to walk around on their own feet!

[@АнастасияСергеева-е6я]

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[@АнастасияСергеева-е6я]

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[@АнастасияСергеева-е6я]

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