PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) is a revolutionary way to solve urban transportation problems. PRT combines the advantages of the car with those of transit. PRT thereby offers the fastest, most comfortable and most environmentally friendly travel mode in the city. Read more about how PRT works.
The Beamways PRT system has its focus on low investment requirement, high capacity and minimal energy consumption. These properties will be very important in the emerging PRT market. Beamways AB was formed in January 2008 and is located in Linköping, Sweden.
During the latest years three PRT systems have been sold, and RFQs for two more projects are being prepared. This shows that the PRT market is now opening after a long pause since the first system was installed in Morgantown, Virginia in the seventies. Thanks to the incredible improvements within the computer and electronics fields we have seen in the last decades PRT today has great possibilities of succeding on a large scale.
I have entered the Beamways technology into the Create the Future design contest hosted by Techbriefs:
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Version 1.3 of the BeamEd software is now available for free download under the heading Products/BeamEd.
The new version contains many new functions. For instance the travel pattern can now be controlled from external files. The new graphic display of simulation results makes detection of network hot spots easy.
BeamEd is a free software. We appreciate your feedback so that we can improve the software further in future releases. We are also interested in knowing what you use BeamEd for and the networks you create!
Building of the world's first large PRT system has now been started in Amritsar, India. See further information in this article. With 200 pods this is five times larger than the Suncheon project. It could be added that there are seven stations and the system is branched with three endpoints, at the station, the bus stand and the golden temple itself.
See also the ULTra press release!
Beamways has been nominated for the award "Cleantech Top 5" by the Swedish environment magazine Miljöaktuellt. The final five "hottest Swedish Cleantech Startups" will be announced at the Greentech Day in Stockholm on the 23:rd of November.
Three new images depicting how a Beamways system may look like in Skellefteå are now available.
Close to main road E4 crossing the Skellefte river.
Crossing ovver E4 on a viaduct further north.
These images are available in higher resolution. Please contact: info@beamways.com
So now time has come for another PRT conference. This time in Stockholm, at the new Waterfront conference center.
Beamways participated and got to show the PRT model to among others the Swedish minister of infrastructure, Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd. Beamways participated in a session about new podcar vendors and ideas. The Beamways presentation is available here.
More information from the conference is available from the IST web site: www.podcar.org
The PRT system at Heathrow airport has opened for the general public after a long period of testing and comissioning.
The Heathrow track has 18 vehicles and is about 3 km in length and has three stations. It connects a station in the new Terminal 5 with two in the business car park.
Beamways finds it vvery encouraging that threre are now two modern PRT systems operating in the world. Especially the Heathrow system will help raise the awareness of this technology thanks to the many influential people enjoyings the Heathrow service.
Further information at the ULTra web site: http://www.ultraglobalprt.com/heathrow-terminal-5/
The worlds first podcar (PRT) system just opened in Masdar, United Arab Emirates. Masdar will be the worlds first carbon neutral city and the podcar system which is to replace all car traffic in the city is an important component in this effort.
The first section which goes from the university campus to a parking garage at the city limit has now been inagurated. The dutch company 2GetThere delivered the system which in this first step has 13 vehicles. We congratulate 2GetThere on work well done and Masdar in showing the way towards a more sustainable transportation system in the world.
Read more at: http://www.2getthere.eu/?category_name=masdar
Beamways participated in the fourth Podcar City conference in San Jose, California. The Beamways PRT model was shown at the Tech Museum and in the City Hall during the conference.
Presentations and pictures from the event can be found at: www.podcar.org